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re: Normandy vet sings "Blood on the Risers/Paratrooper thread. Any jumpers?
Posted on 5/6/24 at 11:24 am to Spaceman Spiff
Posted on 5/6/24 at 11:24 am to Spaceman Spiff
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We haven't done combat jumps since when?
HALO and HAHO jumps are probably carried out fairly regularly but the majority of them probably don't meet the requirements for a "combat jump" since Delta, ST6, the 75th RRC and the like use them for stealth insertions.
AFAIK the there have only been two static line mass combat jumps since the end of WWII. Operation Just Cause in '89 into Panama and Operation Northern Delay in '03 into Northern Iraq.
While there are a lot of Army units that are airborne deliverable all the units set up for mass jumps are in the XVIII Airborne Corp which would be mainly or possibly only the 82nd, 173d and 20th Engineers which is a division, BCT and a brigade.
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Posted on 5/6/24 at 11:53 am to Obtuse1
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AFAIK the there have only been two static line mass combat jumps since the end of WWII. Operation Just Cause in '89 into Panama and Operation Northern Delay in '03 into Northern Iraq.
I'm pretty sure there was a jump into Korea. It went poorly.
I was in Desert Storm with an Indian by the name of Bob Gambler. I saw him one day and he was sharpening the edge of his entrenching tool. I said "Gambler, what are you doing". He said "My Dad jumped in Korea. They jumped on an occupied position and it devolved into hand to hand combat. My Dad had sharpened his E-tool and used it as a hacking weapon. He said its the best hand to hand combat tool there is".
Needless to say, I sharpened my E-tool, just in case.
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