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jmowreader

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43. Paratroopers usually land still inside the aircraft!

Reply to Farmer-Rick (Reply #42)

Mon Jan 19, 2026, 01:02 PM

Jan 19

During the Global War on Terror there were ten combat jumps. Half were in Iraq, the other half in Afghanistan. Of those jumps, only three - all in 2003 - took along non-Special Operations personnel:

25 February: 3-504 Parachute Infantry Regiment
26 March: 173d Airborne Brigade
28-29 March: 27th Engineer Battalion, XVIII Airborne Corps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_known_U.S._combat_parachute_jumps

The 82d Airborne was employed heavily in those wars, and they served as straight-leg infantry almost the entire time.

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