Most quickly found out that the Herc was a great training aircraft, especially on tactical flying.
True, Old Fella. I never did a Herc conversion but flew the Caribou among other things, and the combination of standard trash hauling alongside the sometimes very complex tactical things both they and Hercs did, not to mention working very closely as a crew to get the job done, was to my mind a great training ground for just about anything else you might do in flying.