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===USAF HC-130P Combat Shadow===
{{Main|MC-130P Combat Shadow}}

[[File:HC-130P-N refuels HH-60G.jpg|thumb|right|USAF HC-130P-N refueling an HH-60G Pave Hawk]]

The [[MC-130P Combat Shadow]] series of aircraft initially entered service in December 1965 during the [[Vietnam War]] as the HC-130H CROWN airborne controller. The CROWN airborne controllers located downed aircrew and directed [[Search and rescue|Combat Search and Rescue]] operations over North Vietnam. In mid-1966 flight testing began of rescue helicopters equipped with aerial refueling receivers, and 11 of the controller aircraft were modified as tankers and redesignated the HC-130P SAR Command and Control/vertical lift (helicopter) aerial refueling aircraft, entering service in Southeast Asia in November 1966. Originally assigned to the [[Tactical Air Command]] (TAC) and then the [[Military Airlift Command]] (MAC), Combat Shadows have been part of the [[Air Force Special Operations Command]] (AFSOC) since that command's establishment in 1993. In February 1996, AFSOC's 28-aircraft HC-130P tanker fleet was redesignated the '''MC-130P Combat Shadow''', aligning the variant with AFSOC's other M-series special operations mission aircraft.<ref name="fact3">{{cite web|url=http://www.af.mil/information/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=116 |title=MC-130P Combat Shadow |work=Air Force Link |publisher=United States Air Force |date=June 2009 |access-date=10 June 2009 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120717164106/http://www.af.mil/information/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=116 |archive-date=17 July 2012 |url-status=dead  }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |date=May 2008| title = Gallery of USAF Weapons|journal = Air Force Magazine, Journal of the Air Force Association}}, p. 145. USAF continues to field 33 HC-130P and HC-130N dedicated CSAR aircraft as part of [[Air Combat Command]].</ref> At the same time as this redesignation, USAF continued to field HC-130P/N aircraft as dedicated CSAR platforms under the [[Air Combat Command]] (ACC) and in ACC or PACAF-gained CSAR units in the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard.