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Senior Airman Huston prepares to off load crew members from an EC-130E Airborne Battlefield Command and Control Center.
Senior Airman Gregory Huston prepares to off load crew members during an EC-130E Airborne Battlefield Command and Control Center engine-running crew change at Davis-Monthan, Air Force Base, Ariz., on Dec. 19, 1999. The EC-130E is a modified C-130 Hercules aircraft designed to carry the USC-48 Airborne Battlefield Command and Control Center Capsule. These aircraft include the addition of external antennae to accommodate the vast number of radios in the capsule, heat exchanger pods for additional air conditioning, an aerial refueling system and special mounted rails for uploading and downloading the USC-48 capsule. Huston is an airborne maintenance technician with the 42nd Airborne Command and Control Squadron based at Davis-Monthan.