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The US Marine Corps deployed KC-130J Super Hercules tankers for the first time on 13 February as Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 252 (VMGR-252) from MCAS Cherry Point, North Carolina, relieved VMGR-452, the Marine Reserve KC-130T unit from Newburgh, New York, previously deployed to Al Asad, Iraq, since August 2004. VMGR-252 logged more than 200 flight hours in just two weeks in Iraq and reported that maintenance of up to forty hours per flight hour with the old KC-130F/R models was down to ten hours with the KC-130J. The KC-130J, like previous models, provides in-flight refueling as well as rapid ground refueling of aircraft and tactical vehicles.
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