Annabelle Lockheed Martin,
Species: C-130 (Currently H Model)

Born 19 December, 1957.

Annabelle Martin was born in the Skunkworks, She's seen half a dozen wars and quite a new "Not so much" wars. She flew in Vietnam, proudly bearing a green paint scheme and trying to prove her worth. By the time of US Withdrawl she'd had multiple wing surgeries, had taken numerous anti aircraft rounds to the body and peppered by anti-aircraft missiles atleast twice.

She soldiered on. Fighting through the decades she was refurbished and re-jobbed numerous times, at one point she carried the armament of the AC-130 Spectre.

However, like most planes. You can only fly so long. The end of her career, having served as an C-130, AC-130, KC-130... it finally came. The Airforce retired her, and the marines couldn't take her because of her age. Things were looking Dysmal. However, the determined plane refused to give up the ghost.

She finally surfaced when she was found sitting on the main runway of USCG Air Sta. Los Angeles, refusing to leave unless the repainted her and pulled the guns off of her body. They relented. Now, bearing the bright white markings and the racing stripe she fights still, not to kill others and cover her soldiers below, but she fights to save those unable to protect and save themselves, she fights the winds and the rains to find and rescue those whom would otherwise be lost.

She proudly, moreso than ever before, holds the Designation HC-130, and shines that racing stripe every morning.

Art by the wonderful  Foxena