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New C-130Js descended on Southern California last fall when the 146th Airlift Wing at Channel Islands Air National Guard Station received its third and fourth new Super Hercules, and VMGR-352, the Marine refueling unit at MCAS Miramar, received its first KC-130J tanker. Brig. Gen. David A. Brubaker, the deputy director of the Air National Guard, flew one of the new C-130Js to its new home on 7 September. The wing will eventually receive eight C-130Js to replace the early 1960s version C-130Es it now operates. The KC-130J delivery was especially timely for VMGR-352, as it still operates many of the same KC-130Fs it flew when it converted in 1961 to what was then called the GV-1.
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