Downtown jump highlights National Airborne Day celebration
More than 78 years after the first U.S. Army paratroopers took to the skies, the Army’s elite parachute demonstration teams paired up for a rare jump into downtown Fayetteville.Eleven soldiers from the U.S. Army Parachute Team, the Golden Knights, and their counterparts in the U.S. Army Special Operations Command Parachute Team, the Black Daggers, stepped out of a plane circling 2,000 feet above the city.Trailing smoke and in some cases carrying flags, the soldiers […]
