06-05-2009, 06:34 PM
sgtcarl1 Wrote:How many of you have ever seen inside a C-5? It is over three stories tall, and can haul ANYthing! My wife has amazed me with stories about the C-5s being used to haul other aircraft to Desert Storm. Just ask Herc driver!
I have!
Even was on load detail, loading up our AH-1s(MZ) Cobra Attack helicopters, as well as some wheeled vehicles, after a nice little vacation at Ft Irwin, for Operation Golden Eagle '84(Yep...We were desert training a whole six years before Desert Storm).
Just for FYI, we could get three Cobras, and four OH58's(Army version of the Bell Jet Ranger) in the lower deck of the C5. We helped load our sister unit's UH60 Blackhawks also, which the C5 could hold two. Got to fly between Ft Hood and Norden AFB in the troop section on the second level. Also saw them unload a MI Abrams Tank from one while at Norden.(The Abrams was unloaded from the C5, we loaded our birds on the same C5)
Torrington, Ct.
NARA Member #87
I went to my Happy Place, but it was closed for renovations.
NARA Member #87
I went to my Happy Place, but it was closed for renovations.