I flew small stuff (mostly Hueys), and in all my years in the Army I'd actually never been in a C-130! We either flew ourselves wherever, or rode in the top shelf of the C-5 that had our aircraft in it.
Ross, BTDT, except one time. We had to break down some Medivac UH1-V's (?) that were attached to us. Then we put them in a C-141.That was a major PITA. I was the division AVIM PC officer/huey test pilot at the time. I kept getting asked by the chain of command of the supported unit why it took so long for us to rebuild and test fly the C 141 transported birds vs the C-5 transported birds.
BTW, on that deployment, the C-5 that I was riding in "crash landed". The impact desroyed all the Hueys and one Cobra on board. We were all ok, though. The C-5 was kinda trashed, too (ripped one or two sets of the main landing gear completly off and left them about 1/4 mile prior to the beginning of the runway.The fusalage had some major damage, too).