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		<h1 class="headline">Peoria Air Guard in Texas for Hurricane Harvey relief effort</h1>
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				<div class="description">DAVID ZALAZNIK/JOURNAL STAR Illinois Air National Guard Staff Sgt. Alex Butler loads up with gear Thursday to stow on the C130 plane Butler and the rest of the plane's crew were flying from their Bartonville base to Dallas, Texas as a base for helping with Hurricane Harvey flood relief.</div>
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					<span class="article-meta-date">Aug&nbsp;31,&nbsp;2017&nbsp;at&nbsp;9:16&nbsp;AM</span>
					<span class="article-meta-updated">Aug&nbsp;31,&nbsp;2017&nbsp;at&nbsp;8:54&nbsp;PM</span>
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			<p><p>PEORIA &#x2014; Staff Sgt. Alex Butler didn't get a lot of solid sleep this week.</p><p>"I was up every hour checking my phone for news," Butler said Thursday before boarding a military cargo plane bound for Texas. "No idea if we were going to be sent to Texas. Just figured if we did, we'd just slide on down there and they'd tell us what to do."</p><p>Word came Wednesday that seven Illinois National Guard airmen and one C-130 cargo airplane from the 182nd Airlift Wing would fly out of Peoria to Texas on Thursday morning to support the federal Hurricane Harvey relief and recovery effort. They departed minutes before noon Thursday and will be gone three to four days.</p><p>"It's what we do," said Master Sgt. Cy Snider, the mission's flight engineer, while preparing for the two-hour flight to Texas. "It's our reason for existing. Helping people."</p><p>At the time the cargo plane was in the air shortly before noon Thursday, the crew's mission was not known. They will relieve another air crew that has been on the ground.</p><p>Col. William "Robbie" Robertson said the plane will be stationed at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth where it will be with other aircrews from other states. The mission could be medical evacuation or bringing bottles of water to the affected sites. What's likely to happen is that the air crews will rotate in and out, like a "plug and play," type of a situation.</p><p>"Our job will be to go down and fly whatever missions or tasks we're asked to do," Robertson said Thursday morning. "They'll be looking to do aero-medical evacuations, evacuation of personnel, movement of equipment as directed by the authority down there."</p><p>The guard members aren't being called out for federal duty but fall in a middle ground where they are still under the control of Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner, but their time in Texas will be supported by federal dollars. It is a distinction that allows them to help, whereas other groups, such as 2nd Battalion, 238th Aviation Regiment, which flies CH-47F Chinooks and is training for its deployment at Fort Hood, Texas, can't.&#xa0;</p><p>The C-130 is a mainstay in the Air Force. Around since the early 1960s, the medium-sized cargo plane can carry an impressive amount of material or people and has the ability to land on shortened, unimproved runways.</p><p>It's believed the cargo plane and its crew are the first from the Illinois National Guard to assist with the flooding and the recovery efforts in Houston and in southern Texas after Hurricane Harvey came ashore last week, swamping that part of the state with record-setting rainfall.</p><p>The crew prepared to leave Thursday morning, loading up personal gear in backpacks, suitcases and duffel bags into the back of the C-130. The plane, one of eight in the Peoria fleet, has flown all around the world. It has an American flag decal on its tail directly above a bright orange band with the word "Peoria" printed in black block letters. After a 90-minute pre-flight check, the cargo plane's four propellers began to spin one at a time. The last member of the crew entered the plane from the hatch on the side below the cockpit and pulled the hatch closed behind him. The plane taxied slowly toward the runway then turned right. Five minutes later it was airborne, banking south toward Texas.</p><p>"It's our job as Air National Guardsmen to support the nation and to support Americans in need. And there are Americans in need right now. So when the call comes out&#xa0;&#x2014; we're not called the Minutemen for nothing &#x2014; we have men and women here who will respond and volunteer to go on these missions. We don't even have to tell them to go, they call up and volunteer."</p><p>Scott Hilyard can be reached at 686-3244 or by email at shilyard@pjstar.com. Follow @scotthilyard on Twitter.</p></p>
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