2023 they still play this gem in the harness shed, after watching it for the 400th time on my own, safety measures have become reflex, reflex have become safety measures. I have become the physical embodiment of airborne. airborne has become me, I have conquered gravity and become a god. the ground trembles with my PLF prowess, god fears me.
Can confirm 2023 and Sergeant Airborne still uses this to boost our morale while we’re waiting all day just to not jump because of the Air Force’s planes not working.
I went Nov '21 and I'm glad for all the people that constantly check all equipment and aircraft, etc. Thinking back on it, they got all these people to keep alive. One small mistake could cost one or many their lives. I definitely relate though lol
Just graduated today. Can confirm airborne school never changes. Twice we waited all day, 16 hours, fully rigged just to go up and get red lighted when the chalk in front of us finished their jumps. Once in full combat rig.
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I graduate tomorrow, and we watched that video in a constant loop for two hours straight. We clapped and screamed AIRBORNE, as an encore to play it again 😂
I went to airborne school almost 50 years ago and when our senior officer s Lt colonel pinned my wings on my chest after our last jump is still the proudest moment of life. Even more than when I earned my Master degree, which never meant as much to me as winning the right to wear the US Army Parachute Badge.
Good job Airborne, I am doing situps at 2:53..HHT 1/17th Air Cav. 82nd ABN 1981-1984.. In LOD accident.. Out for over 13 years.. Reuped in 98. ARNG Retired 2005..
Scott Williams its 2018 and they still play this video in the harnesses shed. To my fellow paratroopers who know what i am talking about. You know what i mean lol
yes, 5 jumps made you a 5-jump-chump, in the deuce jump 6 was referred to as (popping his cherry) do they still talk like that? sounds to me like in today's army, you might get kicked out for talking like that.
But do they still give Bloodwings when you graduate Airborne? I got mine. And do they still cover your entire helmet with red 100mph tape on your first jump with your Unit? I have pics from my cherry jump. Many years later I did my first FAA civilian freefall course (with an instructor on either side) and they made me wear a bright orange raggedy coverall. Coming in for a landing there were too many chiefs on the ground barking commands, I pulled the toggles early on landing and they (on the ground already) screamed PLF! Afterward, they said it was the best PLF they had ever seen. haha. Static line jumps with a T-10 or T-11 feel like a balloon ride. A free fall feels like you're a nose cone on a rocket!
WOW! Crazy to see that nothing has changed over the years at Airborne school. When I saw the towers at basic in 99, I told my Drill Sgt. that I would never go Airborne, now I'm jumping out of planes. One of the best decisions I ever made. AIRBORNE!!!
Graduated from jump school at Benning on August 26, 1977. 31 years later retired from active duty. Seems like only yesterday, not 44 years ago. Amazing!!!
I never thought I would do much beyond Jump School in the Army but my time at Benning led me to SF and in '95 after going from SP4 to SFC to 2LT to MAJ I retired as SF, RGR, Pathfinder, Combat Diver and Master Blaster and HALO with 22 years on Jump Status straight -- all because as a SP4 going to Jump School meant an immediate 16% raise with that $55 a month extra.
When I was in the U.S. ARMY ,I never got a chance to go to AIRBORNE school.. May in the next life I will.. God bless the American paratroopers.. Past, present ,and future.
This was filmed during my oldest brother's time in the 70s.I graduated Airborne School in 1986.I never saw this when i enlisted back then,but looks like it was still the same as when i went through.Its only as a kick in the nuts if you ever went through Airborne School yourself.
My father, 91, completed airborne school in Japan in 1948 with the 11th Airborne Division, then assigned to the 187th RCT which made the two combat jumps in Korea in 1950, 1951 respectively. He has two combat jump devices on his wings.
My best times for me as a Marine and a Soldier , post- USMC, was jumping and fast roping and rappelling out of helicopters and fixed- wing airplanes, having earned both the Parachutist Badge and Air Assault Badge. Ooh Rah and Hooah Airborne and Air Assault !!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🗽🦅🔪🗡️⚔️🔫🔥💥💀
You mean they let Squids Jump Now Days .??? How do they wear the Parachutes ??? Or do they just free fall into the water. Well it don't Matter causes Maines are real men. Real men don't sweat the small stuff like Goddamned Para what??? Chutes Oh Parachutes ??? What's that ?? What are they used for??? Semper Fi
I never saw this, but after seeing the uniforms, T10 chutes, C-130 aircraft I wondered if maybe I was in the film. Earned my jump wings at Benning in December 1971. I was in the 71st Airborne Brigade,TxARNG. At jump school back then we trained and bunked with Special Forces, Navy UDT, Marine Recon, etc. We trained with (but didn't bunk with) officers. I remember the qualifying run I looked to my right and a major was running beside me. Every member of the training cadre was a pro. I was never scared because I knew these men would do everything possible for our safety and success. Also, it was very sobering knowing I was going home to be a national guard soldier, but most of my fellow trainees would go into combat. To those I am forever grateful and humbled. AATW!
@@christiangonzalez2968 shit bro. time flies. Even though it was only 3 years ago. I miss jump school everyday. I’m currently at sill now. I’m definitely going back. I was with the 82nd for 3 years. I’m probably going to Alaska next. Well see. But I miss airborne everyday. Best 3 weeks of my life💙
Love this video. I went to Jump School in 1971. As in the video, we did everything in fatigues. and boots No shorts, sneakers, etc. A captain died of a heart attack during exercises in the saw pits, it was during the hot summer month of August.
God this just whisked my mind right back to class in the 501st. Airborne was one of the most entertaining schools I got to attend. Great people, hilarious cadre, and awesome rides. It was like I got to go to the amusement park for 18 days. I just had to pay the appropriate fee in effort and motivation.
I went through Jump School in 1968 and it was awesome. I was enroute to SF Training which was even harder. Then off to combat in RVM. Went through a rough time Purple Heart and other wounds when I turned the Purple Hearts down, not unknown in SOG. No regrets, as you only are young and have that chance once, to challenge yourself and have adventures. If you are lucky and smart you survive. I was both of those things. I am no hero and I salute my friends and brothers who didn't make it home alive as they are the true heroes.
Just graduated 4/2/2021. Can confirm they still play this in the harness shed. We about lost our minds watching so many times we clapped and screamed and whistled encore every time it ended haha
This amazing and inspiring 16mm reel-to-reel film came out in 1972. As a Ranger and Jump Master qualified member of the 82nd Airborne Division Liaison Team at the Fort Benning Airborne School, in 1972, we showed this film a number of times during our airborne orientations to the new recruits. Our mission was to reduce the horrible 50% attrition rate of those who had opted to join up with the 82nd Airborne Division after completing Airborne School. In one outrageous incident, General Blanchard told us that one group of new arrivals to the Fort Bragg 82nd Division reception center had been ordered by a leg Specialist Fourth Class to tear off their Airborne tabs from their shirt sleeves! And greatly reduce attrition to 25% we did. After all, Airborne School was never a cakewalk. We circulated and talked with the new recruits, we woke up at 4:00 AM each morning and led them in calisthenics and led and sang cadence on their morning runs, lobbied to eliminate jump school expulsions from the unrealistic Swing-Landing Trainer, we joined them weekly for their first parachute jumps, and helped them quickly resolve serious administrative/personal problems (missing pay, death in the family, etc.), and after they earned their wings one of us always accompanied our recruits on the charter buses to Fort Bragg. And that epic Airborne film played an essential role in our efforts.
POV: It’s 0900. You buddy rigged at 0700 and completed JMPI’s and front and rears by 0800. The chalk master accountability spreadsheet had a load time of 1500. Your a** still hurts from all the sitting in the harness shed the day before. This video starts playing and you know you have to cheer as loud as you can when it’s over because it’s either watching this on repeat for six hours or sitting in silence. AIRBORNE!!!
Wow, entertaining conversation on here. Look, they showed us this because it's entertaining. We got some good laughs out of it and it helped to calm our nerves. If you feel like Airborne School and being Airborne is so dumb, that's your opinion. As for me, I couldn't be more proud to wear my Airborne wings and be part of an elite and prestigious legacy. AIRBORNE ALL THE WAY!!!
I remember back in the spring of '75, I was a sophomore in Hi School, and the ARMY recruiter's came to Queen Anne Hi and set up a display just outside the lunchroom. I stopped to talk with them, and this particular video was being played, and this caught my ATTENTION. My young 16-year-old mind was hooked. It was like a DRUG. I couldn't get ENOUGH, I got to KNOW the recruiter's, and they knew me by my first name, by the time my senior year came around, I enlisted and got three of my classmates to join as well.
I love this video. It was why I went to airborne school. I retired from the US Army and Reserve a SSG and parachute rigger. I will always be a US Army 82nd Airborne paratrooper.
Jump school 1967, SF Jumpmaster 1969, Rigger 1971. Comment by General William Yarborough. "It is unnatural for a human being to hurl himself from great heights, especially if the environment into which he falls is either know or unknown to be hostile".
79 summer at Benning was and still is the hottest one ever recorded and I did basic and jump school that year, 3 years later in 81, I was back and completed Ranger school during the coldest winter ever recorded in Columbus Ga, Still the best days of my life RLTW !!!!
has to be one of the greatest military promotional videos of all time.. i wonder how many suckers they got to sign up with this.. then a life time of busy work and hey you details
HAHAHAHA *gasp* hahahaha! Best one I ever heard: Sgt Airborne on Fryer DZ on the bullhorn "keep your feet and knees together. AIRBORNE keep your feet and knees together. God damn it airborne, keep your feet and.....good luck.
On my way south to Florida to retire for my last year's I visited the jump school for one last memory of my time spent there in 1973......retired 2003 after 30 years.....greatly appreciated the opportunity to serve and defend this great country....AIRBORNE ALL THE WAY.
Till saftey measures become saftey reflexes can't be more true, ran off a dudes canopy then my risers got twisted, ran em loose then I pulled away without even thinking, it's wild, AIRBORNE!!!
+Kevin Duclos We still don't, for the most part. All the running during the day is in ACUs, boots, and a helmet. The only time we wear PTs is for, well, PT.
Did Jump School at Benning 1964. Don't remember this video but everything looked the same. I was #37 and my buddy was #38. Years later I visited him in a Nursing home after a bad stroke and brought my Airborne picture. He did not recognize his own family but he recognized me holding my picture. He did not communicate with anyone. When I left I said "Airborne" and he responded "All the he way". Great training and was proud to be a Paratrooper. Took my family to Benning to see the towers and was treated like a brother.
I lost count of the number of times we watched this video while sitting in the harness shed over the past two days. Glad that's over. The song has been stuck in my head. "Airborne's rough so you've got to be tough! Can you make it? Airborne!" What a classic.
If we were 17 years old once again my freind.Brings tears to my eyes with pride that back then we did not quit and jump to earn our wings.Only us and our freinds who can say "We are Paratroopers by god!".AIRBORNE BROTHER!
2023, they still play this on repeat in the harness shed during airborne school, definitely the biggest morale booster
Nice
I can confirm this is still accurate
Bitch say the month I already said the year
Airborne!
12 years later and it's STILL fucking a morale booster
When your stuck in the harness shed for hours and this is the only thing you see
Bro that was literally today for me xD
same. it hypes tf out of you tho.
Watch it over and over and over we would clap every time and yell airborne!
LMAO
Bro it’s still happening😂
Run.
Run til your legs get tough.
So when you land, its the ground that hurts.
Its 2019 they still played it this morning for us
I remember that like it was yesterday
That is what you hit the ground the ground better hurt. Beat your boots
2021 still playing the video.
@@randallsharpe1876 yeah but the trees hit back thanks s.c, air national guard'
2023 they still play this gem in the harness shed, after watching it for the 400th time on my own, safety measures have become reflex, reflex have become safety measures. I have become the physical embodiment of airborne. airborne has become me, I have conquered gravity and become a god. the ground trembles with my PLF prowess, god fears me.
AIRBORNE!
🅰️ir🅱️orn!
ALL THE WAY
@@alchemicalsoul
EveRyDaY
Kill !!!
Can confirm 2023 and Sergeant Airborne still uses this to boost our morale while we’re waiting all day just to not jump because of the Air Force’s planes not working.
I went Nov '21 and I'm glad for all the people that constantly check all equipment and aircraft, etc. Thinking back on it, they got all these people to keep alive. One small mistake could cost one or many their lives. I definitely relate though lol
Just graduated today. Can confirm airborne school never changes. Twice we waited all day, 16 hours, fully rigged just to go up and get red lighted when the chalk in front of us finished their jumps. Once in full combat rig.
2020 can confirm they still play this in the harness shed. Over and over and over and over
Can confirm 2022 as well.
Yes
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You god damn 5 jump chumps.
Yes. I just want some peace and quiet
I graduate tomorrow, and we watched that video in a constant loop for two hours straight. We clapped and screamed AIRBORNE, as an encore to play it again 😂
We all did son. Graduated in 2018. Miss jump school everyday
I went to airborne school almost 50 years ago and when our senior officer s Lt colonel pinned my wings on my chest after our last jump is still the proudest moment of life. Even more than when I earned my Master degree, which never meant as much to me as winning the right to wear the US Army Parachute Badge.
@@crisn565 same here. I’m now with my unit and have two jumps under my belt 🤘🏻
@@johncorbin1622 thanks for sharing this with me. It makes me realize that I’ve done something bigger than I actually realized.
Good job Airborne, I am doing situps at 2:53..HHT 1/17th Air Cav. 82nd ABN 1981-1984.. In LOD accident.. Out for over 13 years.. Reuped in 98. ARNG Retired 2005..
Whoever put the thumbs down to this is a Dirty Nasty LEG!!!!
lol
iamredeemed949 26 dislikes 26 pt failures on the first day
41 41 41
Scott Williams ... "SoDirtySoNasty" 😂
Scott Williams its 2018 and they still play this video in the harnesses shed. To my fellow paratroopers who know what i am talking about. You know what i mean lol
Remember, five jumps make you Airborne, but it's your Sixth jump that makes you a Paratrooper.
AATW!
yes, 5 jumps made you a 5-jump-chump, in the deuce jump 6 was referred to as (popping his cherry) do they still talk like that? sounds to me like in today's army, you might get kicked out for talking like that.
Cherry popping's still a thing.
*proceeds to do nothing but hollywood jumps*
But do they still give Bloodwings when you graduate Airborne? I got mine. And do they still cover your entire helmet with red 100mph tape on your first jump with your Unit? I have pics from my cherry jump.
Many years later I did my first FAA civilian freefall course (with an instructor on either side) and they made me wear a bright orange raggedy coverall. Coming in for a landing there were too many chiefs on the ground barking commands, I pulled the toggles early on landing and they (on the ground already) screamed PLF! Afterward, they said it was the best PLF they had ever seen. haha.
Static line jumps with a T-10 or T-11 feel like a balloon ride. A free fall feels like you're a nose cone on a rocket!
6th Jump makes you a Parachutists. Someone lied to you. Your not a Paratrooper till your Master rated. (Master Centurion Para)
@@The508ranger No one lied to me, kid. This old vet got his wings in 1987.
The harness shed...
I cringed when I saw the saw dust pits....they were replacing them with rubber when I went through airborne school.
No repeat this over and over again for at least two hours and you've got the Jump School experience.
make it at least 5
Troy Stull Add the uncomfortable bench and rig yourself up for 9 hours.
Still to this day this is true
@@TheyCallMeAtlas still true 8 years later 😭
It ain’t changed.
There isn't a single paratrooper in the 82d who doesn't know what this video is by the third frame.
can someone feel yet not experience the actual act or remember doing???
@@audreychristine8873 NO! LEGG
Retention rates soared when they started using the doors BEHIND the propellers.
WOW! Crazy to see that nothing has changed over the years at Airborne school. When I saw the towers at basic in 99, I told my Drill Sgt. that I would never go Airborne, now I'm jumping out of planes. One of the best decisions I ever made. AIRBORNE!!!
i told my drill sgt the same thing. and guess what
the jumpers yearn for the flutes
Graduated from jump school at Benning on August 26, 1977. 31 years later retired from active duty. Seems like only yesterday, not 44 years ago. Amazing!!!
Thanks for your service wow 31 🤯 🤣
I graduated June 1977. You were rolling around in my sweat in the sawdust pits there! Safe travels brother paratrooper.
Its 2020 and im so glad they played this video. Huge morale booster!
Good to see they still play it, stay safe up there brother man
Just graduated last Friday. They still play this.
Just graduated today. Still play it.
Warrior-Scholar what platoon and chalk ? i did aswell
35-19
02-20 just graduated today. And yes they played this in the harness shed lol
Still played today! Lol
THIS IS THE GREATEST RECRUITING VIDEO EVER MADE!
2024 they still play this in the harness shed
This comment makes me feel old and I went through in 2018
I remember the Black Hats saying "you have to jump 5 times, but only have to land 4."
I never thought I would do much beyond Jump School in the Army but my time at Benning led me to SF and in '95 after going from SP4 to SFC to 2LT to MAJ I retired as SF, RGR, Pathfinder, Combat Diver and Master Blaster and HALO with 22 years on Jump Status straight -- all because as a SP4 going to Jump School meant an immediate 16% raise with that $55 a month extra.
Remember watching this in the pac shed, we'd all crack up at the 70's porn music.
My boy just completed his five jumps yesterday. 82nd Airborne
Five jump chump
Cherry Blast 🍒 TIME
When I was in the U.S. ARMY ,I never got a chance to go to AIRBORNE school.. May in the next life I will.. God bless the American paratroopers.. Past, present ,and future.
This was filmed during my oldest brother's time in the 70s.I graduated Airborne School in 1986.I never saw this when i enlisted back then,but looks like it was still the same as when i went through.Its only as a kick in the nuts if you ever went through Airborne School yourself.
“Chalk 8 face the flight line...”
My father, 91, completed airborne school in Japan in 1948 with the 11th Airborne Division, then assigned to the 187th RCT which made the two combat jumps in Korea in 1950, 1951 respectively. He has two combat jump devices on his wings.
My best times for me as a Marine and a Soldier , post- USMC, was jumping and fast roping and rappelling out of helicopters and fixed- wing airplanes, having earned both the Parachutist Badge and Air Assault Badge. Ooh Rah and Hooah Airborne and Air Assault !!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🗽🦅🔪🗡️⚔️🔫🔥💥💀
Airborne all the way 🇺🇸
You mean they let Squids Jump Now Days .???
How do they wear the Parachutes ???
Or do they just free fall into the water.
Well it don't Matter causes Maines are real men.
Real men don't sweat the small stuff like
Goddamned Para what??? Chutes
Oh Parachutes ???
What's that ?? What are they used for???
Semper Fi
2024, it continues... the navy guys love it the most
I never saw this, but after seeing the uniforms, T10 chutes, C-130 aircraft I wondered if maybe I was in the film. Earned my jump wings at Benning in December 1971. I was in the 71st Airborne Brigade,TxARNG. At jump school back then we trained and bunked with Special Forces, Navy UDT, Marine Recon, etc. We trained with (but didn't bunk with) officers. I remember the qualifying run I looked to my right and a major was running beside me. Every member of the training cadre was a pro. I was never scared because I knew these men would do everything possible for our safety and success. Also, it was very sobering knowing I was going home to be a national guard soldier, but most of my fellow trainees would go into combat. To those I am forever grateful and humbled. AATW!
Bravo Company 507th PIR Graduated on November 22nd 2018. They still play this in the harness shed. AIRBORNE!!!!!!
B Co. 1-507 graduate here. Graduated June 28 2019 they played this in the harness shed
43rd Co. Jul. 1972. Right after they filmed this.
B Co graduated in1989... time flies.. the memories of the harness...
Bravo company 1-507 PIR graduated on June 18th 2021 and yes they still play it 😂😂
@@christiangonzalez2968 shit bro. time flies. Even though it was only 3 years ago. I miss jump school everyday. I’m currently at sill now. I’m definitely going back. I was with the 82nd for 3 years. I’m probably going to Alaska next. Well see. But I miss airborne everyday. Best 3 weeks of my life💙
I watched this tech-tape in the recruiter's office in 1980! Brings back memories
I wore it out in their office ‘78-79
Recruiters office like in "Stripes"... LOL
No. My recruiter was probably the only honest dude in the system. He used the tape to talk me out of it.
❤
Love this video. I went to Jump School in 1971. As in the video, we did everything in fatigues. and boots No shorts, sneakers, etc. A captain died of a heart attack during exercises in the saw pits, it was during the hot summer month of August.
Graduated SEPT 2019, they still play this timeless classic.
God this just whisked my mind right back to class in the 501st. Airborne was one of the most entertaining schools I got to attend. Great people, hilarious cadre, and awesome rides. It was like I got to go to the amusement park for 18 days. I just had to pay the appropriate fee in effort and motivation.
I'm glad they filmed this, I'm so old now I forgot a lot of it. This brings back memories and I was the pole man for those of you who remember.
Hit the HOLE, Pole Man!!!
2023, can still say that they still play this in the harness shed. Music slaps
I went through Jump School in 1968 and it was awesome. I was enroute to SF Training which was even harder. Then off to combat in RVM. Went through a rough time Purple Heart and other wounds when I turned the Purple Hearts down, not unknown in SOG. No regrets, as you only are young and have that chance once, to challenge yourself and have adventures. If you are lucky and smart you survive. I was both of those things. I am no hero and I salute my friends and brothers who didn't make it home alive as they are the true heroes.
Just finished my last jump at airborne today and they still play this on repeat and we cheer every time Airborne all the way!!!
Just graduated 4/2/2021. Can confirm they still play this in the harness shed. We about lost our minds watching so many times we clapped and screamed and whistled encore every time it ended haha
We would keep singing “Woah oh mama, LOOK AT ME GO” for the entirety of jump week... good times.
Love the music!!! The old good days!!!
Saw this at the recruiter in 75 and watched this video, went in 76..........20 years of knees in the breeze.
2023, they still play this immaculate masterpiece in the harness shed
This amazing and inspiring 16mm reel-to-reel film came out in 1972.
As a Ranger and Jump Master qualified member of the 82nd Airborne Division Liaison Team at the Fort Benning Airborne School, in 1972, we showed this film a number of times during our airborne orientations to the new recruits.
Our mission was to reduce the horrible 50% attrition rate of those who had opted to join up with the 82nd Airborne Division after completing Airborne School.
In one outrageous incident, General Blanchard told us that one group of new arrivals to the Fort Bragg 82nd Division reception center had been ordered by a leg Specialist Fourth Class to tear off their Airborne tabs from their shirt sleeves!
And greatly reduce attrition to 25% we did. After all, Airborne School was never a cakewalk.
We circulated and talked with the new recruits, we woke up at 4:00 AM each morning and led them in calisthenics and led and sang cadence on their morning runs, lobbied to eliminate jump school expulsions from the unrealistic Swing-Landing Trainer, we joined them weekly for their first parachute jumps, and helped them quickly resolve serious administrative/personal problems (missing pay, death in the family, etc.), and after they earned their wings one of us always accompanied our recruits on the charter buses to Fort Bragg.
And that epic Airborne film played an essential role in our efforts.
We watched this everyday before our jumps during jump week. Everyone loved it haha
POV: It’s 0900. You buddy rigged at 0700 and completed JMPI’s and front and rears by 0800. The chalk master accountability spreadsheet had a load time of 1500. Your a** still hurts from all the sitting in the harness shed the day before. This video starts playing and you know you have to cheer as loud as you can when it’s over because it’s either watching this on repeat for six hours or sitting in silence. AIRBORNE!!!
Wow, entertaining conversation on here. Look, they showed us this because it's entertaining. We got some good laughs out of it and it helped to calm our nerves. If you feel like Airborne School and being Airborne is so dumb, that's your opinion. As for me, I couldn't be more proud to wear my Airborne wings and be part of an elite and prestigious legacy. AIRBORNE ALL THE WAY!!!
I remember back in the spring of '75, I was a sophomore in Hi School, and the ARMY recruiter's came to Queen Anne Hi and set up a display just outside the lunchroom. I stopped to talk with them, and this particular video was being played, and this caught my ATTENTION. My young 16-year-old mind was hooked. It was like a DRUG. I couldn't get ENOUGH, I got to KNOW the recruiter's, and they knew me by my first name, by the time my senior year came around, I enlisted and got three of my classmates to join as well.
Jump School was far and away the best training I received in the Army. I can still recall it all 30 years later. Wish I could go back to those times.
We make the most of this at the shed. Navy guys always shout “play the fluuuute” and then we go wild when it happens
2020 they still play it. Keeping with some of the tradition. Love it
2023. They're still playing this wonderful movie In the harness shed. Before Every jump. AATW
I love this video. It was why I went to airborne school. I retired from the US Army and Reserve a SSG and parachute rigger. I will always be a US Army 82nd Airborne paratrooper.
We loved this, we asked them to play it over and over in the harness shed
You earned your wings, no one can take them away. AIRBORNE!!!
2019 and they still play this video 😂😂
2024 airborne graduate I can confirm they still play this in the jump shed. Major morale boost after sitting there for hours. AATW
I went through the three week course in 1969 and the jump class was filled with the best guys I ever met in military service.
Take 2 salt tablets and drive on.
Jump school 1967, SF Jumpmaster 1969, Rigger 1971.
Comment by General William Yarborough.
"It is unnatural for a human being to hurl himself from great heights,
especially if the environment into which he falls
is either know or unknown to be hostile".
Just graduated airborne school today and yes they still play this in the harnest shed B Co 25-19!!
79 summer at Benning was and still is the hottest one ever recorded and I did basic and jump school that year, 3 years later in 81, I was back and completed Ranger school during the coldest winter ever recorded in Columbus Ga, Still the best days of my life RLTW !!!!
2022 and this legend still lives on at airborne school
Class 11-24 they still play this on repeat in the harness shed
They are still airing this gem during jump week of BAC. It’s so terrible, and that’s why I love it so much.
has to be one of the greatest military promotional videos of all time.. i wonder how many suckers they got to sign up with this.. then a life time of busy work and hey you details
HAHAHAHA *gasp* hahahaha! Best one I ever heard: Sgt Airborne on Fryer DZ on the bullhorn "keep your feet and knees together. AIRBORNE keep your feet and knees together. God damn it airborne, keep your feet and.....good luck.
On my way south to Florida to retire for my last year's I visited the jump school for one last memory of my time spent there in 1973......retired 2003 after 30 years.....greatly appreciated the opportunity to serve and defend this great country....AIRBORNE ALL THE WAY.
It´s 2017. They still play this video lol.
Just graduated last Friday (Feb 18 2022.). They still play this in the damn shed before every jump.
2017, played before all of our jumps in the harness. Earning m wings today in a few hours! Airborne All the Way!
That brings back memories of ground week and that brings on memories of PAIN!
FEET AND KNEES TOGETHER AIRBORNE!
Still played throughly and now it’s embedded within my head.
Fun video, Got my wings in 1969. C119 and C141. I was one if the smallest guys in the company and was number one in the stick on my first jump.
This is the video the recruiter showed me in 1980.....love it.
Bruce Mcgraw still show it today lol
Till saftey measures become saftey reflexes can't be more true, ran off a dudes canopy then my risers got twisted, ran em loose then I pulled away without even thinking, it's wild, AIRBORNE!!!
After eight years I’m glad to hear they still play this classic.
You seriously do run a lot at airborne school.
doomaga1 And we didn't do it in tennis shoes and shorts.
+Kevin Duclos We still don't, for the most part. All the running during the day is in ACUs, boots, and a helmet. The only time we wear PTs is for, well, PT.
Did Jump School at Benning 1964. Don't remember this video but everything looked the same. I was #37 and my buddy was #38. Years later I visited him in a Nursing home after a bad stroke and brought my Airborne picture. He did not recognize his own family but he recognized me holding my picture. He did not communicate with anyone. When I left I said "Airborne" and he responded "All the he way". Great training and was proud to be a Paratrooper. Took my family to Benning to see the towers and was treated like a brother.
Great vid though. Some one told me they shut down the 250' towers. What a loss if true. "Hit the hole pole man hit the hole." Good times...... :D
Jody Hall Just got back from Benning, those towers are still running strong haha
Jody Hall just finished airborne school this week. still working them
Graduated 2019, they still use them alright. . .
Can confirm they still play this in the shed. And ima tell y’all, I’ve never heard a room get so hyped in my life
Proud... From Indonesian army paratrooper!
I love airborne school 6 hours of information stretched out into 3 weeks
Just graduated, still being played on repeat. My mind is now mentally tough.
I lost count of the number of times we watched this video while sitting in the harness shed over the past two days. Glad that's over. The song has been stuck in my head. "Airborne's rough so you've got to be tough! Can you make it? Airborne!" What a classic.
June 2020 and they are still playing this in the harness shed 😂
Sitting in the harness 6.5 hours high wind delays no piss breaks best time of my life
Lmao this video was so funny, everyone in the shed couldn’t stop laughing
Watching this in 2019, makes me go back and do it all over again!!!
I watch this before every jump today will be my 33rd jump not counting airborne school
Class of 2021.... Airborne. Keep those feet and knees together and focus on the horizon......
PLAY THE FLUTESSSS!!
2023 watched on repeat all week in the harness shed those blown out speakers make it even nicer
Nothing like having a butter bar walking on top of your canopy and stealing your air...lol
inaccurate statement. if someone is on top of your canopy its that person on top who loses air. person on bottom is okay.
December 1, 2021 this video is still being played in the harness shed in a method of mental torcher
Man I miss those days. Which I could do it all over again now
If we were 17 years old once again my freind.Brings tears to my eyes with pride that back then we did not quit and jump to earn our wings.Only us and our freinds who can say "We are Paratroopers by god!".AIRBORNE BROTHER!
Me too, All the Way!
I was so fortunate to have had the opportunity. Go ARMY !
It's 2020 and they still play this in the harness shed
2021 the harness shed tradition of watching this on repeat continues
The acid kicked in around 3:06
:D