surveillance aircraft[95] and the Bell 212 for support in specific Jungle / 'hot and high' environments [96] The Eurocopter AS 365N Dauphin is used for Special Operations Aviation[97] and the Britten-Norman Islander is a light fixed-wing aircraft used for airborne reconnaissance and command ...
She didn’t want that, so she volunteered for airborne school. She was sent to the 3 week airborne school then to the 82nd Airborne Division. She arrived in the 82nd Airborne Division as a Private First Class and was promoted to specialist in a couple months. That is when she made the...
To become an Army Ranger, you must enlist in the US Army. Males and females that are at least 18 years old can request to join the 75th Ranger Regiment – an elite airborne light infantry combat unit. Then you are required to complete basic training, have no physical limitations, and per...
Then, they said that he needed to go to jump school because one of the 8th’s brigades was Airborne and they didn’t want the Division CG [Commanding General] to be a leg. So at age 42, newly-minted MG [Major General] Goodpaster reported to Ft. Benning [Airborne School]. Gotta ...
Burgett shares stories of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, with a period re-enactor June 5 in Saint-Come-Du-Mont, France, on the occasion of a memorial ceremony in honor of Joseph "Jumpin' Joe" Beyrle. Burgett is a writer and...