Air Force Lt. Col. Nathan Scopac, 9th Special Operations Squadron commander, and Col. Benjamin Maitre, 27th Special Operations Wing commander, reveal a plaque celebrating MC-130P Combat Shadow Lime 02 in a ceremony Sept. 3, 2015, at Cannon Air Force Base, The aircraft, long an asset of the 9th SOS, was dedicated in a ceremony remembering its role in the Son Tay Raid, an attempt to rescue Prisoners of War from a camp in Vietnam in 1970.


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