National Airborne Day
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Anyone crazy enough to jump out of a perfectly good airplane to get in a fight deserves respect. To all our Gravity Grunts, enjoy your day and thank you for your service.
As a C-130 pilot, I have dropped many of those guys on the various drop zones at Fort Bragg and Fort Benning. Their courage amazes me. Our Army has the best trained Airborne troops on the planet, and that tradition goes back to WWII. Everytime I see the movie, "A Bridge Too Far" about "Operation Market Garden" it gives me chills and thrills.
I had the honor of serving with the 509th Airborne in Germany and Italy '73-'76. You could not ask for better soldiers.
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And happily, they go about their work…
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And one more that will probably bring back a few memories as well…
H-Minus!
H-Minus!
I am seriously proud to have served with the 101st Abn. Division.
It's been said, by those in the Airborne, that the hardest thing about parachuting, is the ground. 
Have met Para Rescue Airmen, training at our Aquatic Center.
New dive tower, at the Hall of Fame, is 27 meters.
Have met Para Rescue Airmen, training at our Aquatic Center.
New dive tower, at the Hall of Fame, is 27 meters.
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"And where is the Prince who can afford so to cover his Country with Troops for its Defense, as that Ten Thousand Men descending from the Clouds, might not in many Places do an infinite deal of Mischief, before a Force could be brought together to repel them?"
-Ben Franklin
Just something to consider….
-Ben Franklin
Just something to consider….
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56 years since I last jumped.
In WWII our paratroopers were taught to pack their own chutes, also the German Falschirmjaegers.
Nowadays that's left to the Riggers. In WWII only our boys jumped with a reserve chute.
Jump School was the most thorough of any Army course of instruction I attended-there was nothing they could leave out.
In WWII our paratroopers were taught to pack their own chutes, also the German Falschirmjaegers.
Nowadays that's left to the Riggers. In WWII only our boys jumped with a reserve chute.
Jump School was the most thorough of any Army course of instruction I attended-there was nothing they could leave out.
When my son was in AFROTC he managed to get a slot in jump school. After graduation he went to flight school, pictured here with his T-38. Note the jump wings on his name tag. He proudly wore those wings until he retired this past January. There are not too many A-10 pilots that are airborne qualified. Airborne !! Third generation combat pilot.
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Just saw this so adding it into the thread. 
