Fort Bragg Stories: Clapp returns to skies decades after deadly accident
Richard Clapp was waiting to make his first official jump with the 82nd Airborne Division when his life changed forever, on March 23, 1994.”I was only in the military six months when the disaster happened,” Clapp recalled. He was 19 years old, fresh out of basic training and jump school.He stood on Green Ramp with hundreds of fellow Fort Bragg soldiers, waiting for an airborne operation.But Clapp never got the chance to jump. Instead, he survived one of the U.S. […]
