I can remember the second week of training in Memphis for my MOS training we had a KC130 come in with no landing gear and he was 50% full of fuel. We were rookies in school and we were called up to help prep the runway for the belly landing. Now it wasn't bad but I was the roof turret operator for the P19. Now be advised we foamed the runway and had 7 trucks on standby with 3 more inbound from Memphis Airport but as the first crash i had been on, it was a rush. The pilot brought the tanker in on final and when he he touched down it was as gentle as if he had wheels. When we came up on scene there was a smell of AV Gas which kinda made me pucker up, thankfully there wasn't any leakage. We thought he would have dumped out the fuel being an aerial refuel-er, but being in residential area he had no option to do that. He landed with 25,000 lbs of fuel.
