A California family and their extremely ill one-year-old daughter, stranded in choppy waters of the Pacific Ocean, was transferred safely aboard the USS Vandegrift (FFG-48) on 7 April 2014, enroute to San Diego thanks to the efforts of a Guardian Angel team from the 129th Rescue Wing, the California Air National Guard unit at Moffett Federal Airfield. In a complicated rescue about 900 nautical miles off the coast of Mexico, three pararescuemen and a combat rescue officer jumped from an MC-130P Combat Shadow personal recovery aircraft after a five and one-half hour flight on 3 April. The team then boarded an inflatable boat, came aboard the family’s sailboat, and then medically assessed and stabilized the baby until the Vandegrift could reach the area.
Sixty Years And Climbing For The C-130
Four Horsemen C-130 Demonstration Team
HC-130J Combat King II First Flight
C-130J Demonstration
