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Photos show US Army paratroopers jumping out of giant C-17s into the freezing Arctic for an airborne assault. Soldiers say it's a rush.
Last month, US Army Pacific hosted a Joint Pacific ... it does get progressively easier after the first jump. When paratroopers are going to land, the aim is to approach the ground in a very ...
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Meet the paratrooper who jumped out of a plane 100 times — and he's just getting started
Jovon Propst, Spartan Company, 54th Brigade Engineer Battalion, achieved on October 9, 2024, when he made the jump, earning the prestigious title of centurion paratrooper. "I get asked all the ...
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Chilling video shows skydiving instructor jumping off cliff before falling to his death
Lima, who served as a paratrooper in the Brazilian Army’s Parachute Infantry Brigade, fell from about 820 feet and landed on some rocks below, according to authorities. Rescuers scoured the area ...
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Richard Nowakowski Was the One Who Jumped First
Richard Nowakowski, from Town Bank, never thought he would be the first man to jump out of the plane, but there he was, ...
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2 Gold Star fathers work to get wreaths at every veteran's grave at 2 local cemeteries
He had joined the Army as a paratrooper infantryman. I remember when he gave me this coin from his first jump off of a ...
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Watch: Hundreds of paratroopers leap to mark daring WW2 offensive
In an airborne spectacular, 700 paratroopers from eight Nato nations - including the Netherlands, Germany, the UK and the US - parachuted from 12 aircraft. The jump was done in two waves ...
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Paratrooper jump kicks off Veteran’s Day events
Cheers erupted from the crowd as the first 10 of 189 paratroopers jumped from 1,500 feet above Lake Dora on Saturday and ...
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Paratroopers mark 80 years since Operation Market Garden
In an airborne spectacular, 700 paratroopers from eight Nato nations - including the Netherlands, Germany, UK and US - will parachute from 12 aircraft. The jump will be done in two waves and those ...
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'Great Power War': US army trains to be battle-ready for China
Recently, 864 paratroopers from the 25th Infantry Division participated in a large-scale exercise in Hawaii, designed to ...
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Silence Was My Father’s Fortress. I Shared It for a Time Until Poetry Set Me Free.
When I came back from Iraq, I carried with me the images of landscapes littered with ruined bodies. To deal with the stew of ...