"I understand it now:" Dad, son serve together in 82nd
Cpl. Michael Cooke scanned the faces alongside him in the darkened plane over Fort Benning, Georgia.This was Cpl. Cooke’s fifth and final jump at the Army’s Airborne School. He could feel the heft of the parachute on his back. And like most everyone else in the plane, he was nervous as he waited for the plane to reach the skies over his drop zone.But as he scanned those faces on the plane, one stood out. It was familiar and a little unnerving, he would recall […]
