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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 ...
The exclamation Geronimo!, shouted when jumping from a great height, may have entered the English language through the 1939 film.During World War II, the film was shown to a group of paratroopers at Fort Benning, Georgia, who afterwards began to shout Geronimo! at the moment of jumping from the airplane.
Apache war leader Geronimo (1829–1909), the namesake of the code name used in the Bin Laden raid. The code name Geronimo controversy came about after media reports that the U.S. operation to kill Osama bin Laden used the code name "Geronimo" to refer to either the overall operation, to fugitive bin Laden himself or to the act of killing or capturing bin Laden.
Social media users have also pointed out this video, although filmed by a reputable news crew, is likely a trick of the light on a camera lens. Video 2: Lights cruise over rooftop
The hijackers released 129 hostages before the Nigerian Army and Air Force stormed the plane, capturing the hijackers and rescuing the remaining passengers and crew members, as reported by The New ...
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 ...