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[2] [3] Tall tales were told about Geronimo while at Fort Sill. It was said that one day Geronimo, with the Army in hot pursuit, made a leap on horseback down an almost vertical cliff, a feat that the posse could not duplicate. The legend continues that in the midst of this jump to freedom he gave out the bloodcurdling cry of "Geronimo-o-o!"
The night before the big jump, the soldiers went out on the town for drinks, a movie, and more drinks. The movie they most likely saw was Geronimo, a western film about the Apache Indian chief of ...
The unit's motto is "Geronimo," a phrase that has become synonymous with paratroopers and parachutists in general. The motto dates from 1940 and the lead up to World War II. The night before their first attempt to prove the feasibility of a mass jump, some U.S. paratroopers at Fort Benning watched the film Geronimo (1939). While drinking with ...
Mayday is an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal in voice-procedure radio communications.. It is used to signal a life-threatening emergency primarily by aviators and mariners, but in some countries local organizations such as firefighters, police forces, and transportation organizations also use the term.
A couple more "popular culture" inclusions: in Hot Shots! multiple characters yell "Geronimo!" when paratrooping, and a person dressed as a Native American also jumps, shouting "Me!" In one of the Aladdin movies (I don't recall which one), multiple "clones" of Genie jump out of a plane yelling "Geronimo!" and one of them, dressed as a feminine ...
If we didn't have our mother, the way that she was; if we didn't lose our father when we were 18 in a plane crash that we were supposed to be on; if the press didn't tell the world that our dad ...
In 2019 the American Red-Dirt Country band Shane Smith and the Saints, released in 2015, their second studio album Geronimo [97] was released on Geronimo West Records. This album has the title track Geronimo. Geronimo in a 1905 Locomobile Model C, taken at the Miller brothers' 101 Ranch located southwest of Ponca City, Oklahoma, June 11, 1905
See how people reacted around the world. ... Investigators head into the debris field at the site of a commercial plane crash near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, September 11, 2001. The crash is one ...