The Green Ramp Disaster, 24 years later
It was a perfect day for a jump.Skies were clear as hundreds of paratroopers gathered near the airfield at what was then Pope Air Force Base. There were barely any winds to speak of. And the temperature was a pleasant mid-sixties.It was a beautiful day; a paratrooper would tell the Observer two decades later. But it wouldn’t last.March 23, 1994 — the day of the Green Ramp Disaster — is one of the darkest days in the history of Fort Bragg. […]
