CGAS Miami H-65 in a CGAS Clear Water C-130
The Drive has a short post noting the Coast Guard’s ability to move its H-65s by C-130.
Some nice photos, kind words, and a video.
“A Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin Helicopter Can Fit Inside A C-130” –The Drive
Chuck Hill's CG Blog
Chuck Hill's CG Blog 
So the $64-K question is what forward deployed airfield on some island that an C-130 can safely land on with a length of ~3000-feet is there, that would facilitate a C-130/HH-65 operation. And is probably located somewhere in the Pacific…
Really did not look like that sort of thing. How much time to reassemble the helo? Doubt if the helo was transported fueled up. Two or three C-130s making a couple of round trips might be able to establish an expeditionary capability to operate H-65s. There is also the fact that the Coast Guard is beginning to replace H-65s with H-60s.
We frequently call on Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service when we need a helicopter to go beyond the range of Coast Guard helos because they have tanker equipped C-130s and helos that can be refueled in the air.
How many WW2 Islands either garrisoned by the US or the Japanese dot the Pacific Ocean with Airfields on them?/! Minimum landing distance required for the C-130 is ~2463-feet by ~150-feet…
There are certainly a lot. The ones where there are population centers have generally been maintained. There is a well-maintained US Air Force one on Wake. The ones that have not been maintained are suspect.
The US Army still maintains “Kwajalein Atoll” with a garrison of ~1100 plus some Marshal Island islanders as civilian workers and sports an ~6600-foot asphalt runway…
I remember an old newspaper story around 1992/93, in one of the Honolulu papers, about AirSta Barbers Point receiving one of the newly painted “orange” HH-65A’s as it was unloaded from a CG C-130. It also happened to be about the same time as Halloween. The caption referred to the HH-65A coming out of the back of the C-130 as the C-130 giving birth to a pumpkin!!
Speaking of short airfields in the Pacific, we used to fly out to Kure Atoll and land a C-130 on a runway made of crushed coral reef material. It’s still there according to Google Maps —> https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kure+Atoll/@28.3915459,-178.299673,2023m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x7cb630bc41cb2d37:0x298613640a5a043a!8m2!3d28.392533!4d-178.2935519
Made plenty of trips to Midway too.
I wasn’t on the flight, but I recall a CG C-130 making a stop out to Wake & Iwo Jima in the 90’s too. One of the pilots brought back a crusty old Japanese pen that he found while walking around on Iwo Jima.