The 61st Airlift Squadron at Little Rock AFB, Ark., received the last of its 14 C-130Js on June 20. Air Mobility Command boss Gen. Carlton Everhart ferried the aircraft from the Lockheed Martin facility in Marietta, Ga., according to a Lockheed release. The base, which is also home to the 41st Airlift Squadron, has 28 total C-130Js, one of the service’s largest fleets of Super Hercs.
The U.S. sent Air Force F-16s over central Syria in a show of force following the Dec. 13 killing of two U.S. Army Soldiers and one American civilian interpreter by a gunman linked to the Islamic State group.
