Day in the life: Airborne Paratrooper | U.S. Army

[@immortal4471]

You skipped 90% of the day when you're sitting around in full kit 12 hours in advance of your actual hit time.

[@Sean_Carroll]

Unless you're a JM. You'll get rigged up right as the bird is ready for PAX

[@midwestmack785]

It's literally just a day. The rest of your time is spent doing nothing every other day of the month.

[@fireball9937]

That's the best part.

[@tombremner6908]

It’s an army recruitment video. They are obviously gonna emphasize the high speed shit and not the hurry up and wait that’s the actual day to day life

[@evansskylo5505]

Ooh yeah the video is not complete. are you in the us army? I am not in the army I live in Nigeria but interested that is why I understand the process in starting a career

[@AbnAngelo7677]

You can NOT tell me a whole ass paratrooper woke up, just got out of bed and got dressed… without snoozing twice and drinking a monster while contemplating his life choices

[@reondeon1272]

Honestly

[@SoulUnknown821]

Don’t forget about the vape to go with the monster

[@donmay184]

I also didn’t see anyone dipping and there wasn’t a single spitter anywhere. They cleaned this up well 😂😂

[@SoulUnknown821]

I’ve never slept in PTs after graduating AIT lol

[@mbninjaguy]

@@SoulUnknown821 normal soilders don't.

[@SoulUnknown821]

You forgot to mention the part where you draw your weapon at 0300 for a time on target of 1800.

[@loganwc99]

The airborne timeline is the fucking worst

[@SoulUnknown821]

@@loganwc99 also make a video of “A day in the life of a paratrooper on chute shake out”

[@SoulUnknown821]

Let’s not forget the fuck your Saturday “fun” jump lmaooo

[@diquanspikes3420]

@@SoulUnknown821 just did that shit yesterday 😂

[@kdubyaw3246]

@@SoulUnknown821 or, the mandatory fun Friday night movie the last free weekend before deployment

[@dr.bright8020]

They forgot the part where we have to do yard maintenance every two weeks in the summer with our E-Tools because all of our equipment dosen't work.

[@vone1914]

One of the dumbest things I had to do was the whole platoon had to pick daisies by hand because our lawn mowers and weed eaters were all broken, or the time we spent the entire day at the range and never shot because they forgot to get ammo. Show time was 0300 didn't leave the range until 1800. Oh how I miss my Army days.

[@keivontaehill]

😂 damn. It be hot also.

[@dr.bright8020]

@@keivontaehill Facts

[@masonbriar5511]

yeah? no wonder you left..

[@dr.bright8020]

@@masonbriar5511 I'm reading your comment in my barracks room right now.

[@boblittle6849]

I left for Special Forces which was quite professional but I miss the whole experience of that time in the 509th. It was the greatest experience for an 18yo boy. This was not too many years after WW2 and the ColdWar was the real deal. We would jump into a field and look across the valley and see Russian and east German tanks and artillery pointed back at us!! It was exciting as hell and a special time in our lives and in the world!! Airborne- All the way!!!

[@LRRPFco52]

Were you in 11th Airborne Division? That was a long time ago. I hope you record your personal history. I would love to hear it.

[@boblittle6849]

@@LRRPFco52 No it was the 509th of 8th Division then. It was in 1963-65. There was a ROAD (Reorganization of Army Divisions) just before that time. Prior to that it was the old 505 Div. We became Airborne Mechanized and jumped in but met our squad vehicles for further movement. Had M113's as squad carriers and M114's command vehicles. A Company was 4 Invantry Platoons and a platoon of heavy weapons which included Jeep mounted 105 Recoiless Rifles and a Platoon of Davy Crockett small yield Tactical weapons set up on an artillery platform. This was the height of the cold war. No games!!! Drop into valley near East Germany and see East German and Russian tanks and artillery pointed back at us. Someone killed daily trying to escape iron curtain!!! Incredible experience and a tense time. 509th was a STRAC unit ready for combat. Spit and polish Airborne. Cochran jump boots with toes shinning from wax. Some great athletes! Our company sent 5 guys to Olympics and 4 or 5 soldiers to prison for life!! Hurdler-Willie Davenport won Gold, Boxers- Jimmy Ellis and Eric Mundy won Silvers, and Weightlifter- Angel Luciaga placed. We had the best of the best and some major league fuckups!!! Tough tough kids from all aspects of poor families. Rednecks, blacks, and many foreigners serving in our military to get citizenship. Unbelievable experience for all of us but especially for me. I went on to Infantry OCS and into US Army Special Forces where I served until Captain.

[@LRRPFco52]

@@boblittle6849 Thanks for sharing. We lived in Munich from 1980-'82. I love Germany and Europe. My mom is from Finland. I went Airborne and was in 4 different Airborne units in the Army, F Co 52nd Long Range Surveillance at Ft. Lewis, 1st SFG at Lewis, 1 SWTG, and 82nd Airborne. Was in 3 leg units as well, 3rd US Inf TOG in DC, 1-506th in Korea, and 1st BDE 25th at Lewis. I haven't heard ROAD in a long time. I'm a big student of the MTO&E history dating back to The Great War, with particular interest in the 1950s-1970s. I collect uniforms and TA-50/LBE as well from those time periods and more.

[@psbassguideservice4157]

Geronimo! 82/83

[@timprescott4634]

@@boblittle6849Which Kaserne?

[@rawhoooooo]

Trey McCray is in fact one of my bestest friends and it makes me proud to see him doing great things thank you for the freedom you sacrifice buddy I’ll see you in January.

[@shmeatfleet5035]

Tell him he seemed a little bit tense around the 2 minute mark😂

[@lttbe316]

Thank you for your Military service and the video.

[@Tesla_ofthe_Skies]

I love how they portray you are going to be jumping out of a plane almost daily lmao

[@yourtrunkrattles4398]

More like layouts waiting in the cof daily

[@banglevision8207]

LOLOLOLOL

[@geodes4762]

Have gone a long as almost six months without a jump. Think about it. One jump at the beginning of a six month block and then another at the end. I would have jumped 3 months forward and 3 months back. I am covered for six months jump pay

[@TonyTwoNukes]

Wake up 0300. Hit snooze twice. Hit vape and crush a monster. Stare blankly in the shower and question existence. Put on shaving cream and raise razor to face. Contemplate slashing throat with razor. Shave face and climb into my Dodge Charger I pay 27% APR on while crushing another monster. Wait in line outside the main gate for 45 minutes. Knees hurt just sitting in the car. Airboh

[@EmperorSenate]

-Fantasize about what your life would have been if you had joined the Air Force -Fantasize about what your life would have been if you had passed RASP -Regret not joining the Air Force -Almost cry, but the emltional numbness and knee pain hold back the tears

[@NoJokes11B]

Don’t get it twisted fellas. You’re going to be cleaning majority of the time in the infantry.

[@CesarGarcia-nd5xz]

🤣😅……………………… 🥲

[@EmperorSenate]

11Janitor

[@umamifan]

@@EmperorSenate They will be well versed in area beautification and the janitorial arts at least.

[@Berserker3624]

Hey! There’s still a chance of ww breaking out…

[@marcikunstek861]

amazing!!!Airborne all the Way!!!! God Bless All Of You!!!

[@johnhansen8272]

Embrace your time in the Division. Embrace it. As it will be a fleeting moment before you know it. You have no idea how many men watching this who both walked in your shoes and never could would trade spots with you in a second. Nice editing to whoever did that task. 3 tours, one with the Parachute Regiment in the UK for 2 years aka the best 2 years of my life. AATW, RLTW!

[@hamie7624]

Being in the 82nd was the gayest time of my life.

[@miatam2]

Airborne All the Way ! Now, 70 years young, Sick,Lame & Lazy, Chair borne crazy, Best years of my life ! Sgt. Mike, 20th S.F. 509th, Airborne Vicenza Italy ret. 73- 83

[@snipper1ie]

A whole day and no one swept a floor, a square, a ceiling, a long stand, nor cleaned a toilet or sink, not a single stone was whitewashed. In the military, no matter where, you will spend more time with a brush in your hand than a rifle.

[@RivetGardener]

Gotta GI the latrines before anything else!

[@reondeon1272]

No this is definitely not it you forgot all the waiting and waking up at 0245 to leave at 0645 to start at 1500 to get scratched at 1900

[@easyy376]

No way you’re waking up at 0245 for a 1500 TOT. Probably not even for a MASSTAC.

[@Zombeh]

Sitting with combat load is the worse experience I ever had in my life

[@abyss1409]

No kidding man it’s terrible lol

[@RivetGardener]

I was lucky. As a jumpmaster I moved around, but jeesus, the work!

[@randallshughart]

Especially when you've done in two days straight.

[@MasterBuilder15]

Here’s a more realistic schedule. First formation at 02, weapons draw 03, wait until 12 for FMC, sit in pax shed all day. Load plane 2300. Then 0630 pt the next day.

[@TCPile332]

Thank you guys for your service

[@RivetGardener]

You're welcome and we pretty much hated every single minute of it.

[@JesusIsKing91276]

Thank you guys and girls for your continued service. HUA

[@thesenate4570]

They really glamorized this😂😂

[@Trikyrioku]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@suspicioususer]

@@cmilly3970 ???

[@LKS-1976]

Had me at a 6 second count fir chute deployment. We jumped T10c in mid and late 90s. Did not mention, 6 hours packed up at green ramp, waiting on Airforce, needing to piss, can't take Kpot off since you've been JMPI'd already, told winds are 3 knots when it's hurricane force gail on DZ, 5 race tracks, half of chaulk in trees, multiple DZ injuries, so on. Fun times. They don't tell you, your chronic knee and back pain is not service related per VA. Still, best times, I still get calls and texts from bros I served with and the occasional "doc, my dick hurts".

[@tennray]

Yeah wtf was that 6 second count.

[@LRRPFco52]

@@tennray T-11. It's the new chute, a lot bigger than T-10, opens slower. Look at how huge the reserves are. I jumped T-10s my whole time in, never had an issue, but some of my guys did. They've had issues with T-11 as well.

[@tennray]

@@LRRPFco52 i get the difference in chute but is there a 6 second count now as well? Jumped several variations of T-10 myself. The only 6 second count was out of HUEY or Blackhawk for me.

[@LRRPFco52]

@@tennray I jumped UH-60 with T-10 but don't recall if there was a longer count. We were at 90kts and higher than I had ever jumped (only 1500ft AGL if I recall). Jumped tailgate from Chinooks for Saturday fun jump/straphanger/payhurt jump while my sister and a family friend watched from the bleachers on Sicily DZ. I can ask about why T-11 had a longer count in this video.

[@tennray]

@@LRRPFco52 Chute didn't matter when I was jumping it was fixed wing vs rotary wing aircraft 4 second or 6 second

[@izonufoto]

Ahhh the memories... my first 3.5 years in the 82nd back in the mid 80's doing night mass tacs on Sicily...and then escaping to SWCS and doing Blackhawk fun jumps on St. Mere Eglise...

[@Sabertooth-l2h]

was there 86 thru 89

[@AlikiOfTheWolves]

​@@Sabertooth-l2hdid you know a guy named Brennen from staten island?

[@boblittle6849]

They forgot the part where the screaming starts!! We woke up at before dawn with a senior Sgt screaming, "On your FEET!!!" Running to make formation, Running thru the streets of a German town singing Airborne songs. Back to barracks to change for inspection, racing to Chowchilla, racing to load "duce and a halfs" with all your equipment, jumping into frozen drop zones, Running with a kit bag to get off DZ, sleeping in rain and snow, pulling time in frozen outpost, eating cold C-rations from a can, wet Cochran Jump boots, wet heavy overcoat w/overerwhites, crickets, noise, heat and light discipline, M-14's without weapon bag, hundred mile rides in open duce and a half in freezing cold back to barracks, spending next days cleaning everything you own, getting ready for next alert whistle! 509th during cold war! Best part is the crazy ass guys you will NEVER forget 50 years later!!!

[@Breeksheethouse]

Hey! I'm that jumpmaster on this paratroopers door. AATW!

[@paulmorris6177]

There’s A LOT that went unsaid here..lol..like the HOURS that go by between your JMPI and the actual jump..IF they don’t “kank” (cancel) it. The 100+ pounds that you’re carrying on your back..and then the FTX that follows…there’s more to this than the video shows!! 😂

[@mbninjaguy]

Thats because they don't want you to see it.

[@paulmorris6177]

@@mbninjaguy haha…very true…not to mention that 1) if the jump is later in the day or a night jump, you’re still getting up and doing PT that day or 2) if it’s an early jump, you’re still going back to work for the rest of the day. 😂

[@Sean_Carroll]

every follow on mission for us involves a 13mi ruck back to the ASTA

[@paulmorris6177]

@@Sean_Carroll LMAO!

[@LRRPFco52]

They never show the paratrooper waddle out to the birds from Green Ramp.

[@reddevilparatrooper]

Brings back memories when I was a young Paratrooper back then...

[@highgradeOG]

Proudly served with the 82nd in first gulf conflict

[@RafeGonzalez]

Any old schoolers like me watching this who jumped the T-10 have a little heart attack when there was no opening shock at four thousand? Hearing him count five and six thousand sounded like my worst nightmares haha.

[@mbninjaguy]

From talking with people around base, there seems to be more injuries with the T-11 than with the T-10

[@j.b.m4640]

So true

[@e4mafiagodfather445]

T10-D all the way Bru, Sky Soldiers.

[@geodes4762]

Back in my time jumping was a once a month routine not an everyday thing! What was an everyday thing was early morning PT in fatigues and boots. This started at 0600 and lasted about 45minutes followed by showers, a breakfast in the mess hall, then a shower. The work day usually started somewhere around 0830-0900. The day consisted of any number of things-police call, classroom instruction, field training, other duties. Jumping was actually a very small part of all of it. When we did have a jump it was usually scheduled for early evening and it ate up a lot of time for prep, loading, jumping assembling and returning to Post and then cleaning and stowing equipment. It made for a long day! For riggers and supply people it was even worse, their day started with checking and issuing personnel parachutes, rigging loads and then collecting up all of the air items afterwards and then starting the process of repacking by shaking out chutes, inspecting them and then hanging them in the drying tower. Being a paratrooper meant doing so much more than a “Hollywood Jump”!

[@thechief4780]

As a German, I thought the same 😂

[@z0phi3l]

Man, not a bad day. Back in my day, lol, we were still doing PT when Spc here was getting up, do a full day in the pack shed, maybe go home for dinner, or get a MRE, start prep for jump, TOT was usually somewhere between 2100 and 000, get back to the shed, shake out chutes and go home, PT next morning if Top was not happy

[@WmGood]

As an old timer we used the T 10 chutes. Here they're using the T 11's I've heard about. Looks like a softer landing even though going through the PLF is still a good idea.

[@WhoReallyCares72]

Every once in a while we got to jump with them Dash-1 Bravos….yeah buddy, feet and knees together!!!

[@jackdaniel7465]

I remember those T10's served with 3rd Bn 325th Inf, 1980-1985 survived gallant Eagle 30 March 1982 R.I.P to those six troopers that died on that jump.

[@greggdarbygregg9760]

I was a parachute rigger with the 82nd airborne from 74-77, T10, MC1-1, packed and jumped them all, the inversion nets were just coming out too! Good old times, best jumps were out of a C7 caribou plane and a Huey copter!

[@steveedwards6753]

@@jackdaniel7465 Was Gallant Eagle the FTX in a CA desert? I got out in Dec '81 but kept in touch with some of the guys. I was in 618th Eng Co, 307th Eng BN. There was a Sgt Moore from the 618 that got killed out there on the jump. He got knocked out at some point. I don't know if he hit the plane or had a bad landing and got knocked out. My buddy, Tony Means, said there were high winds and Sgt Moore was being drug across the desert. Tony collapsed the chute to stop the dragging. Sgt Moore was being drug belly down. Tony turned him over after collapsing the chute. Said the Sgt's face was gone. Even training can be dangerous. RIP Sgt.

[@jackdaniel7465]

@@steveedwards6753 yes it sure was, we had four drop zones..Rock, stone, gold and silver, extremely high winds that day, it was a very bad day to say the least, of course they covered it up, they also said it was "UNEXPECTED HIGH WINDS THAT CAME OUT OF THE SOUTH" but the winds were 40mph with gusts clocked up to 60mph those winds were extremely high the day before the jump as well, but because it was a very large combined arms exercise and many dignitaries along with the major news station to watch this Jump, they were not going to scrub the jump, so we troopers paid a big price for that fiasco.

[@jaystrass1076]

I am sure there are a lot of us old timers. That would Love to go back and do it again. I am one of them. HHC and CSC 2nd Bn 508th PIR. Miss the Brotherhood.

[@loganwc99]

Fury from the sky!

[@RivetGardener]

OH sure, you were in HQ company.

[@jesseelias8542]

D. 1/504th PIR. I’m with ya.

[@warriorredeemed215]

It wasn't like this EVERYDAY. Army channel Promoing HARD lol.

[@EmperorSenate]

Retention is at an all time low along with recruiting lol.

[@stacyhackney6100]

Thank you for your service.

[@kenneththebruce]

The TWO best Divisions in the US Army are the 101st and the 82nd!!

[@TGHouser87]

I miss holding my piss for 5 hours sitting around at green ramp waiting to load the bird....

[@tomuss2082]

Yes but when you finally get down, AAAH!

[@raysantiago3750]

Every morning I would run thur the 82nd Airborne Barracks to motivate myself before a long day at JFKSWC. BE ALL YOU CAN BE! US ARMY /🇺🇸 ☝️😎

[@FINALLYOUTAFTER7]

His knees still work?

[@johnadams677]

I WAS STATIONED 74-78 LIKE MY DAD BEFORE ME, I LOVED IT!!!

[@11broomstickk]

Seeing a lot of Spc and e5s with CIBs is pretty motivating. I’ll definitely be reenlisting for Liberty.

[@jackjackson2154]

Hi USA army I am 8 and I want to join you because my dad was apart of the 82nd paratroopers and if you get someone that does not do what they are supposed to do tell him are her do it for your mom dad sister or dad pls read this. Thanks for keeping us safe.🫡

[@monicadabney8471]

That was bloody awesome!

[@johnsonthomas9650]

SO awesome

[@akkeut1324]

I have high respect for airborne troops after watching band of brothers.

[@johnsonthomas9650]

How are you doing

[@akkeut1324]

@@johnsonthomas9650 Im fine, thank you. and you?

[@eddieBoxer]

Retired Army paratrooper / Infantryman 82d ABN. B-CO 2d BN 504th PIR, 20 years active service, disabled now, miss jumping, God bless USA

[@Charles.Spillman]

My cousin is in Airborne and has been for the last 3 years, he's 21 and says that he wants to keep enlisting until he can no longer enlist

[@georgeparris8293]

Did the E4 have a private room??? Why no camo on the hands and neck? WE were in two big bays (1971) until they moved each squad into a small room (1972).That was close quarters.

[@Iforgotme]

I was stationed at Fort Bragg in 1961. Every building was built for WW2, out of wood and we lived comfortably. Today Ft. Bragg is all brick! You guys look like you’re living in a hotel!

[@kdubyaw3246]

Those barracks don't look anything like the barracks I lived in back in 79-82... They look like what the Air Force gets to live in🤣

[@richardcaines6389]

You need to visit Bragg, again. The old school barracks are gone.

[@wolgpp]

Not even fucking close. They're shitholes.

[@EmperorSenate]

They're shit by today's standards. Now imagine what the AF has with today's budget.

[@kdubyaw3246]

@@EmperorSenate I've done every thing from "refurbished" WWII barracks to fairly decent barracks in Berlin, Germany. I didn't think the barracks at Fort Bragg were too bad when I was there in the late 80's...

[@AirborneAudits]

All the way!

[@gameoflife4190]

I can only imagine the stress of watching over or having every single peace of equipment in check in order.

[@RangerCaptain11A]

you left out the thirteen mile saturday battalion runs, the lawn mowing, the miles of hallways polished, and using your 5-tons to be the trashmen while you're in the field.

[@RivetGardener]

Don't forget the arm's distance away policing up the BN AO for cigarette butts.

[@alchemicalsoul]

Looking forward to pinning my young paratrooper!

[@thepurrlateriat]

Amazing work! Looking forward to more Day In The Life!

[@CesarGarcia-nd5xz]

Thank you for the cookies 🍪😋

[@drewsmelser150]

They left the best part out….the gut truck coming and you snagging a Tony’s pizza that burns the shit out of your hands.

[@victorwilliams1304]

Those C17 have a lot more room than C130. I call them the "Cadillac" of Air Transport. And their AC was always "Operational"!!!!!

[@charlesglegg7330]

Wow! Paratroopers have to count to 6 now!? I would have never made though detail week! Airborne

[@hagenabe]

We wait, then keep waiting and we wait more. After about 8 hours of waiting we load the plane and wait even more.

[@robertbailey116]

It was a great time take the good with the bad. But all in all it was good.. All the way. Airborne.

[@bobbycolston6945]

Am I only one who’s left ear was enjoying it

[@jimkreegerjr.8813]

Bravo Company (Bulls), 3/4 ADA Regiment, back when it was part of the 82nd. An experience I value highly. I would not take a million dollars for it, and I would not give you a nickel to repeat it!

[@Whispers_of_Madness]

Too bad as a prior service 11B here the army doesn’t seem to be taking any of us prior guys been speaking to recruiters and none haven’t gotten back to me now looking at other options within law enforcement 🤷‍♂️

[@jamesturner6437]

Check your re code on your dd214

[@richardcaines6389]

I was a prior, after a 14-year break -in-service. Imagine, i had to do quite a bit of my own leg work and follow-ups until i succeeded even though, i felt like an unwanted step-child during the process. I ended up doing 8 more years in the airborne. Sometimes, it depends on how bad you want it.

[@oldnatty61]

I love that shit about pre-jump and forming a proper PLF "so they don't hurt themselves". My shut opened!...thank you GOD. I'm on the ground, I'm alive, and nothing's broken...thank you GOD.

[@wilburarmstrong2443]

I'm at 63. Missing my AIRBOOGIE days. 82 Deuce Airboogie.

[@TC-ti2sr]

Have the keys to Area J been located? Has the fire on Smoke Bomb Hill been extinguished?

[@bushcraft6884]

Airborne and Ft. Bragg? Hell,Memories are awake.

[@Awh0l3nEWoRLd]

Where’s that area beautification at? That’s that real daily life

[@banglevision8207]

💀💀💀

[@carlinbrumback8931]

They probably don't do that crap anymore.

[@RivetGardener]

Painting rocks! Raking gravel!

[@allenbillstrom1626]

I was there back 58 and 59. Airborne all the way

[@wingsclippedwolf]

A specialist with a Combat Infantry Badge? Just how long ago was this footage captured? You missed the part where they give you one MRE for the day...or get your meal from the vending machine at Green Ramp. Seeing that final footage of the final hundred feet...I miss it.

[@JamesDenning03]

Intense!! Great video!

[@bakuofasgard1649]

You forgot sitting in the pax shed for 5 hours just to get scratched

[@gpuckit]

First mistake was when the morning alarm went off you did PT then . I was stationed at Bragg.

[@LKS-1976]

Barracks look better than the 1960s Nam Era ones we had. 2/325 on Ardennes St, across from the shopette.

[@taariqblackwell5134]

I’ll let you know 2/325 B’s on Ardennes are still terrible

[@LKS-1976]

@@taariqblackwell5134 sucks

[@GeneralPyro]

Or the injury rate… if you can go 82days at Bragg with out a death due to training you get a 3 day weekend….. I was there for 3 years and we never hit 82 days.

[@johnsteele2986]

That dude landed awful close to the RAM at the end there! Nothing like a star picket to soften the landing!

[@Jabarikjay]

Great vlog style video! AATW!

[@timprescott4634]

⁠Aldo’s changed owners but still has the best pizza in Mainz. The Pickup and Cheap Charlie’s are long gone. MLKV is now a strip mall with Aldi, Edeka, couple restaurants, etc. It’s where we shop. Clubs are all gone. Palm Beach, Citihaus, La Bastille, etc. I met my wild German girl at “The Beach” back in ‘88. Been together ever since. We and 3/8 had a pretty solid rivalry. Wish I could remember the CSM’s name from ‘87-‘89. THAT dude was WELL feared! Good times indeed. Fulda, Graf, Hohenfels, the Sand Dunes, Baumholder, etc. Wiesbaden still has a sizable community. PX, Commissary, APO, etc. and USAREUR HQ at the Air Base of course.

[@towdjumper5]

Great Stuff!!!

[@ChaoticBean794]

That's it. After watching this dude's barracks, 0330 G.I party until barracks are spotless.

[@danilo_mercado]

Home away from home. Home of the Airborne and Special Operations.

[@ryansanderson23]

I let my fear of hights keep me from going airborn, but I ended up with the 1st Cav at Ft Hood and met one of my dearest friends there. He Sadly past less than a year after getting out.

[@Sean_Carroll]

you skipped the part where we sit in the chute shed for 6 hours all rigged up waiting for the wind or rain to go away

[@jgonell]

Comments are priceless, AATW!! Division Alumni

[@Steve-z1k7u]

Wow, I was there in the 90’s. The barracks sure didn’t look like that. How things have changed

[@82ndairbornevet]

The new T11 parachute rig is different from what I jumped, but the process is the same except for like immortal4471 stated..they skipped all the sitting around for hours! And also the loud counting that guy did as he was falling down…no one does that except in jump school 😂 At least the T11 has a slower rate of descent at 19 feet per second than the T10 I used to jump had, which was 24 feet per second. You’re perfect PLF (parachute landing fall) ends up more like a sack of potatoes being thrown out of a speeding truck!

[@lloydzufelt7514]

Do you have a show on firefighting?? I spent 7 years as a firefighter

[@JG-tt4sz]

How many in 82nd are SF and ranger washouts?

[@j.dallesandro5576]

They forgot the part where you sit on the side of the tarmac for 12+ hours waiting to board the plane then fly around for hours.

[@eddieBoxer]

Green ramp.

[@TheJimtanker]

Oh Green Ramp, how I miss you so.

[@tfred2129]

"Stop carrying that fucking saw by the carry handle!" You forgot to show the part where your loitering over the DZ for 12hours after wheels up

[@dru370]

Well done!

[@pwhales264]

The sound quality is not good I cannot hear the soldiers speak

[@pwhales264]

@Prdgmshft ,Yes I have over 60 jumps from a variety of airplanes and helicopters . I was in the 82nd Airborne Division for a number of years and I'm a 82nd Airborne Division combat veteran. When I was speaking about the sound quality , if you look at the beginning of the video there were soldiers that were not in a plane, they were standing up or sitting down talking I could hardly hear them so why don't you pay attention to the video so you can understand exactly what's going on before you make a fool of yourself

[@miatam2]

A Big WHOOOAAHHHHH, Airborne all the Way ! In my day we had the old T-10 canopies, sure miss the early morning 5 Mile Airborne Shuffle Battalion runs before breakfast, Hate drawing parachute then having to wait for the Air Force to drag their sorry asses out of bed while your all geared up for several hours for loading up ! God I love "Chopper Blasts" nothing like leaping out of a Hewie ! Sgt.Iron Mike, 20th S.F. & 509th Abn Bn. Vicenza Italy.

[@airbornegrandpaw6366]

KNEES IN THE BREEZE 1972 TO 1975 2/508 AATW FOREVER

[@christopherblack8555]

I'm currently in the process of enlisting - very much hoping to get Airborne in my contract. I'm gonna kill it on the PFT. Keep up the amazing work all.

[@SaraphDarklaw]

Talk to more paratroopers and really think about what you’re asking for. I nearly died in a midair entanglement and have multiple stories about being rigged all day for a jump, that was sometimes canceled. That’s 7-12 hours of having 100+ lbs of crap with no relief. My absolute worst was being set up at 1000, for a jump at 0200 the next morning. We were baking in the sun all day at Louisiana in the summer. When I landed, I was so dehydrated, I forgot what unit I was in and called for my previous unit. I finally got to sleep at 0500 but had to wake up at 0600. For the next 3 weeks, I was operating on 2-4 hours of sleep per night. If you still want it, go for it. Just realize it’s not glamorous, it’s hard work.

[@max420thc]

I was a scout and other than dropping out of the sky like bird shit we were not getting hot food, baths , or sleep months on end. It all sucks brother. I still have problems with the cold because of the frost bite I have in my feet.

[@michaellammers4694]

@us army are you able to do a day In the life of a 13B

[@usarmy]

We’ll look into that.

[@usarmy]

@Prdgmshft Riveting material.

[@donaldmatthies6026]

@@usarmy how about barracks maintenance, or area beautification, the best a day in the life of weapons maintenance?

[@robertneven7563]

respect and more respect

[@christianmarsden1825]

Forgot to include how long we was up before the jump, the shoot shakeout after the jump, the movement after he lands and packs his shoot.

[@anlerden4851]

I love US Airbone so much.😊😇🥰😍🤗

[@yourtrunkrattles4398]

You must not be in the army

[@tacticorememes]

Wait, what, did I hear SIX THOUSAND!? Since when that did that change? I'm an old man now! We only went to 4000. Oh and I remember those good old days, "E! You're on manifest, 1500, company area!" 12 hours later.... Pop the buttons, turn left or right, take piss, put weapon into deployment, gather up chute, move to the RP and a long walk home. Ah, God bless the Airborne! Best fuckin job I ever had! All the way! Airborne!

[@richardcaines6389]

....different, chutes.

[@tacticorememes]

@@richardcaines6389 *Oh hell, I forgot! C17. * Needed that extra length on the static line! Gah! I knew that! Thanks for the on the spot! I was in Germany and heard from friends that jumpers were bouncing off of the skin of the aircraft with the T10B. So, 2 more seconds of static line....Gahdamn I'm old! Thank you, Brother! In my day, we were 130s, 141s, 60 and 47 jumpers. Damn, I'm old!

[@DS-wo8wr]

Wow! Things must have changed! We’d ALWAYS sit around, in full gear, for hours waiting.

[@jackdaniel7465]

Damn I don't remember my barracks being anything nice like that when I was stationed at Bragg!!

[@tomuss2082]

I was there in 1966, 1967. Went back in 2017, the place looked like a modern town with townhouses.

[@NOLA4LIFE504]

Airborne!

[@elle294]

Question:what’s the yellow line they hold onto before they jump for?

[@Bill_Gates_isgay]

It stays attached to a cable inside the plane, upon exiting the aircraft it deploys the chute. This is done because paratroopers are dropped at such a low altitude in order to get the fight to the ground as soon as possible.

[@elle294]

@@Bill_Gates_isgay ohhh okay, thank you!

[@donaldmatthies6026]

@@elle294 it's called a static line!

[@miatam2]

your Pecker ! because you have to pee so bad from being chutted up waiting several hours to load up for the jump !