During his Air Force career Ray flew 6,600 hours, primarily in C-130 type aircraft, in his last 12 years he was assigned to Special Operations, flying the MC-130 Combat Talon.

During those operations, Turkish fighter jets even intercepted the MC-130 Combat Talon special-operations aircraft carrying US troops and forced them to fly back to base.

During those operations, Turkish fighter jets even intercepted the MC-130 Combat Talon special-operations aircraft carrying US troops and forced them to fly back to base. US Green Berets in an MC-130H ...

The U.S. Air Force's special operations tanker, the MC-130H Combat Talon II, took off for the last time from Hurlburt Field, Florida.

Dean Huber, 560th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron functional aircraft mechanic, marshals an MC-130H Combat Talon II aircraft to the taxi-way at Robins Air Force Base in 2021.

As far as other efforts involving the 130 airframe, AFSOC is also working to turn the cargo delivery capability into a fires delivery platform in some case, through its palletized munitions platform ...

Getting to the fight on a submarine is considerably more discreet than arriving on an MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter or jumping from an MC-130 Combat Talon airplane.

Getting to the fight on a submarine is considerably more discreet than arriving on an MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter or jumping from an MC-130 Combat Talon airplane.

Getting to the fight on a submarine is considerably more discreet than arriving on an MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter or jumping from an MC-130 Combat Talon airplane. If the infiltration and exfiltration ...

The Air Force has begun retiring the -E, -H, and -P versions of the MC-130 fleet and plans to completely replace them with the MC-130J by 2025. The "Combat Talon" designation, active since 1977 ...

Special tactics airmen from the 24th Special Operations Wing jump out of an MC-130H Combat Talon II at Hurlburt Field, Fla., in January 2015. (Senior Airman Christopher Callaway/Air Force) The ...

U.S. Army Rangers board a U.S. Air Force MC-130 Combat Talon II aircraft at Fort Benning, Georgia, before a Ranger Rendezvous 2009 mass tactical jump on Aug. 3, 2009.Getty Images ...