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Airmen from the 37th Airlift Squadron at Ramstein AB, Germany, got a glimpse of their future on 9 November as a C-130J from the 143rd Airlift Wing, the Air National Guard unit at Quonset State Airport near Providence, Rhode Island, deployed to their base. At the same time, the local Kaiserslautern Combined Noise Abatement Committee watched the C-130J crew take off, land, and taxi around the Ramstein flight line. The group was impressed with the reduced noise of the new aircraft. The 37th currently flies seventeen 1960s-vintage C-130Es, all of which will remain in operation until they are replaced by C-130Js beginning in 2009. Ramstein is under the command of US Air Forces in Europe.
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