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  2. High-altitude military parachuting - Wikipedia

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    United States Air Force Pararescuemen jump at half the height of a typical HALO/HAHO insertion 2eme REP Legionnaires HALO jump from a C-160.. High-altitude military parachuting, or military free fall (MFF), is a method of delivering military personnel, military equipment, and other military supplies from a transport aircraft at a high altitude via free-fall parachute insertion.

  3. List of HALO/HAHO jump capable units - Wikipedia

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    Para-SAR during an exercise. Brazilian Navy. GRUMEC Combat Divers Groupment; Brazilian Marine Corps. COMANF Special Operations Battalion; Brazilian Army. 1º Batalhão de Ações de Comandos 1st Commando Actions Battalion

  4. Operation Rhino - Wikipedia

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    Operation Rhino was a Joint Special Operations Command raid by several special operations units, including the United States Army's 160th Special Operation Aviation Regiment and the 75th Ranger Regiment (Regimental Reconnaissance Company and 3rd Ranger Battalion), on several Taliban targets in and around Kandahar, Afghanistan during the invasion of Afghanistan. [1]

  5. Mil Mi-26 - Wikipedia

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    The Mil Mi-26 (Russian: Миль Ми-26, NATO reporting name: Halo) is a Soviet/Russian heavy transport helicopter. Its product code is Izdeliye 90 . Operated by both military and civilian operators, it is the largest helicopter to have gone into serial production .

  6. Siege of Khost - Wikipedia

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    During the nine-year Soviet–Afghan War in the 1980s and the subsequent Afghan civil war, the town of Khost was besieged for more than eleven years. Its airstrip's 3 km runway served as a base for helicopter operations by Soviet forces.

  7. Billy Waugh - Wikipedia

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    By the end of the Vietnam War, he was serving as the command sergeant major of MACV-SOG, an elite covert operations unit, where he conducted the first combat high altitude-low opening (HALO) parachute jump in military history. He left the Army in 1972 with eight Purple Heart medals and a Silver Star.

  8. Lubbock's Friends of McAlister Park launch Afghanistan 13 ...

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    The Friends of McAlister Park on Wednesday announced the launch of the Afghanistan 13 Memorial Walkway project to be located on the Southwest corner of McAlister Park adjacent to the Western ...

  9. John A. Chapman - Wikipedia

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    John Allan Chapman (July 14, 1965 – March 4, 2002) was a combat controller in the United States Air Force who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor on August 22, 2018, for his actions in the Battle of Takur Ghar during the War in Afghanistan. [1] He is the first airman to receive the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War. [2]