The Lockheed C-130 Hercules serves as the primary tactical transport for many military forces worldwide.

In 2003 the air force received 3 C-130K Hercules transport air craft to support the armed forces in their UN peacekeeping and humanitarian activities.

This is an engraving of Hercules performing one of his labors as he forces a bull to the ground.

During the Cold War, Moon Township was the location of Nike Site PI-71, which was a battery of Nike Ajax and / or Nike Hercules surface-to-air missiles, used by US armed forces for high – and medium-altitude air defense.

The initial Australian force consisted of ; three Royal Australian Navy ships, 500 special forces soldiers, P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft, C-130 Hercules transport aircraft and No. 75 Squadron RAAF ( which included 14 F / A-18 Hornet fighters ).

With the active forces being reduced after the end of the Vietnam War, a significant number of older C-130A Hercules tactical airlifters became available for the Guard and Reserve which allowed the Korean War-era C-119 Flying Boxcars to be retired.

In order to expand its capacity for troop and cargo transportation in support of surface forces, in their fight against subversion and drug trafficking, the Air Force acquired new C-130 Hercules aircraft that been used for security purposes but also for humanitarian assistance.

Nuclear-armed Nike Hercules missiles were deployed in the United States, Greece, Italy, Korea and Turkey, and with Belgian, Dutch, and U. S. forces in West Germany.

RAAF C-130 Hercules transport aircraft were also involved in providing logistic support for deployed forces.

* March 17 – Armenian forces shoot down an Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force C-130E Hercules carrying Iranian embassy personnel from Tehran to Moscow near Ballica in the Armenian-controlled Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, killing all 32 people on board.

The Hercules was reportedly carrying a number of troops on an urgent mission to reach Pristina Airport before a column of Russian forces arrived.

The quiet Amyclaeans were struck by the cursed and numerous forces of the swamp, unstoppable beings such as the monstrous serpent with nine heads, the Lernaean Hydra, which attacked from the swamps with poisonous venom, and whose heads would re-grow as quickly as Hercules could slice them off with his sword.

In these theatres the Portuguese Armed Forces set up secure zones amidst the combat areas, and evacuation units, sometimes operated by Portuguese Army special forces or Portuguese Marines Special Actions Detachment ( DAE ) to retrieve civilians from hot-spots and evacuate them onto frigates stationed off-shore or onto Portuguese Air Force C-130 Hercules transports, as in Angola in 1992..

It was named after Jacobus Hercules ( Hendrik ) de la Rey ( 1847-1914 ), General of the Boer forces in the Anglo-Boer War.

The RDJTF relied upon the C-5 Galaxy ( 70 aircraft ), C-141 Starlifter ( 234 aircraft ), and C-130 Hercules ( 490 ) of MAC to deploy the fastest reacting ground forces, the forward elements of the 82d Airborne, Special Forces and USMC personnel of the 7th MAB.

Samson is a highly skilled hand-to-hand combatant, which, coupled with his physical attributes, has allowed him to engage the Hulk for extended periods of time, and briefly held his own against the combined forces of Iron Man, Wonder Man, Sub-Mariner, and Hercules, after they had first fought the mindless Hulk.

Indeed, the ancient Greeks attributed the lack of large mammals such as bears, wolves, jackals, and poisonous snakes, to the labour of Hercules ( who took a live Cretan bull to the Peloponnese ).

Hercules sitting on a bull, 1830s ( National Museum, Warsaw | National Museum, Warsaw )

Whistling merrily at his success so far, Hercules was then sent to capture the bull by Eurystheus as his seventh task.

He sailed to Crete, whereupon the King, Minos, gave Hercules permission to take the bull away and offered him assistance ( which Hercules denied because of pride ,), as it had been wreaking havoc on Crete by uprooting crops and leveling orchard walls.

Hercules sneaked up behind the bull and then used his hands to throttle it ( stopping before it was killed ), and then shipped it back to Athens.

Eurystheus, who hid in his pithos at first sight of the creature, wanted to sacrifice the bull to Hera, who hated Hercules.

After capturing the Cretan bull, Hercules was to steal the Mares.

Greek mythographer Acusilaus marks the bull Taurus as the same that formed the myth of the Cretan Bull, one of The Twelve Labors of Hercules.

First deployed to Chicago, 393 Hercules ground systems were manufactured.

Defeated, Talos falls to the ground, crushing Hylas ; whereupon Hercules refuses to leave until he ascertains the latter's death.

The plan requires the helicopters to meet six United States Air Force aircraft – three special operations MC-130E Combat Talon I penetration / transport aircraft and three EC-130E Hercules – on the ground at the secret " Desert One " airstrip inside Iran for refueling.

Argentine ground crew repaired the runway within twenty-four hours, to a level of quality suitable for the C-130 Hercules and Aermacchi MB-339 jets .< ref > Hastings and Jenkins: The Battle for the Falklands, p. 203: " Meanwhile, a single Aeromacchi < sub ></ sub >-almost certainly the first Fleet Air Arm < sub ></ sub > ( Argentine COAN ) reconnaissance aircraft flying from Port Stanley-attacked the ...."</ ref > Many sources claim that fake craters confounded British damage assessment, however, the British were well aware that the runway remained in use by C-130 military transport aircraft and IA 58 Pucará ground-attack aircraft.

In 1876, the ground was dedicated by Governor Sir Hercules Robinson.

It is hardly surprising therefore that within a couple of years of the NSWCA taking control of the ground, the governor, Sir Hercules Robinson, appointed Driver himself, William W. Stephen and Phillip Sheridan ( after whom a grandstand was named ), the first trustees.

The low-flying Hercules was hit by enemy ground fire, which caused a fire to break out onboard and led to structural failure and the eventual crash.

In 1968 – 69 and 1969 – 70, the British Antarctic Survey ( based at Halley Station ) conducted further ground surveys with support from US Navy C-130 Hercules aircraft.

The Canadian garrison at Camp Mirage ranged between 225 and 250 personnel, with ground personnel rotated every six months and CC-130 Hercules aircrew replaced every eight weeks.

Hercules killing the fire-breathing Cacus, engraving by Sebald Beham ( 1545 )

Lichas bringing the garment of Nessus to Hercules, engraving of Hans Sebald Beham for the " Labors of Hercules " ( 1542 – 1548 )

Unlike the discoveries of the Hercules Farnese and the Latin Hercules from this excavation, which were documented as to their location, the only reference to this grouping is from a 1595 engraving by Etienne du Perac of the ruins of the Baths, showing the end of the east palestra, which states: "... in the time of Paul III many beautiful fragments of statues and animals were found that were all in one piece in antiquity ... and Cardinal Farnese had erected now in his Palazzo.

There's a man who never goes by the ordinary road but still arrives at his goal, who gratuitously gets himself into difficulty in order to get out of it with eclat, in a word a man who creates monsters for himself in order to appear a Hercules in destroying them ''.

Also, in " The Erymanthian Boar ", a character is said to have been turned out of Austria by the Nazis, implying that the events of The Labours of Hercules took place after 1937.

Notable queens of the Amazons are Penthesilea, who participated in the Trojan War, and her sister Hippolyta, whose magical girdle, given to her by her father Ares, was the object of one of the labours of Hercules.

Palamedes, Creugas and Damoxenus, the Combat of Theseus and the Centaur, and Hercules and Lichas may close the class of heroic compositions, although the catalogue might be swelled by the enumeration of various others, such as Hector and Ajax, King Ferdinand of Naples, and others.

* Power Plant: Solid propellant rocket motor built by Hercules Incorporated

The legend associated with Chiron says that he was accidentally poisoned with an arrow shot by Hercules, and was subsequently placed in the heavens.

Hercules wanted to honor the birthplace of Zeus by removing all " harmful " and " poisonous " animals from Crete.

Capturing Cerberus, without using weapons, was the final labour assigned to Heracles ( Hercules ) by King Eurystheus, in recompense for the killing of his own children by Megara after he was driven insane by Hera, and therefore was the most dangerous and difficult.

Liberty, the symbol of Enlightenment ideals was here being overturned by the Hercules symbol ; that of strength and passion for the protection of the Republic against disunity and factionalism.

Flavius and the Book of Jubilees described the continents as the lands given by Noah to his three sons ; Europe was defined as stretching from the Pillars of Hercules at the Strait of Gibraltar, separating it from North Africa, to the Don, separating it from Asia.

The symbol of Hercules was first adopted by the Old Regime to represent the monarchy.

First, because Hercules was a famous mythological figure, and had previously been used by the monarchy, he was easily recognized by educated French observers.

Hercules capturing the Erymanthian Boar, by: es: José Manuel Félix Magdalena | J. M.

Hercules killing Centaur Nessus ( marble by Giambologna, Florence )

In Greek mythology, the Heracleidae () or Heraclids were the numerous descendants of Heracles ( Hercules ), especially applied in a narrower sense to the descendants of Hyllus, the eldest of his four sons by Deianira ( Hyllus was also sometimes thought of as Heracles ' son by Melite ( naiad ).

Transport to the island is provided by C-130 Hercules military transport planes operated by the Royal Norwegian Air Force that land at Jan Mayensfield's gravel runway.

The fisherman was transported to the island, and then picked up by a Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules rescue plane from Kodiak, Alaska.

Jason appeared in the Hercules episode " Hercules and the Argonauts " voiced by William Shatner.

Beginning at the north, Lyra is bordered by Draco, Hercules, Vulpecula, and Cygnus.