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The 262-foot (80 m) Parachute Jump ride at the 1939 New York World's Fair (later moved to Coney Island) [5] was a parachute tower, though the United States Army parachute training centre at Fort Benning had only 34-foot (10 m) towers until 1941.
New York: Ballantine Books, 2002. ISBN 978-0-345-45333-4. Colonel John T. Carney Jr. was the first commanding officer of the USAF "special tactics" units and the book is part memoir and part history. Drury, Bob (2001). The Rescue Season: A True Story of Heroism on the Edge of the World. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-86479-7. OCLC 44969545.
Basic small arms training on the beach, Atlantic City, New Jersey center, 1942. That fall the Technical Training Command activated two more basic training centers at Keesler Field, Mississippi, and Sheppard Field, Texas, where the command already had mechanic schools. A group of officers and enlisted men from Scott Field became the initial ...
The wartime 394th Bombardment Group was re-designated as the 106th Bombardment Group (Light), and was allotted to the New York Air National Guard, on 24 May 1946. It was organized at Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, New York, and was extended federal recognition on 21 March 1947 and activated by the National Guard Bureau. The 106th Bombardment ...
Civil Air Patrol offers a cadet program for youth aged 12 to 21, which includes aerospace education and opportunities, leadership education and training, formal Air Force style drill and ceremonies training, and Emergency Services training. [3] New York Wing holds an annual Encampment for the cadet members, eight days where cadets study drill ...
The Army is investigating a night parachute training accident that injured 32 soldiers, four of them seriously enough to need hospitalization. Col. Christopher Landers is commander of the 4th ...
William Dause, the Parachute Center’s founder, said Call, who lived in Watsonville, had jumped about 2,000 times, according to a Bee story from the time. Sept. 26, 2019.
The Saga of U.S. Army and Marine Parachute And Glider Combat Troops During World War II, New York: St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0-312-59654-5; Kirk, Robin (2003), More Terrible than Death: Massacres, Drugs, and America's War in Colombia, New York: Perseus Book Group, ISBN 1-58648-207-6