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A member of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division Fort Bragg, North Carolina, parachutes to the ground at Charleston Air Force Base after jumping from a C-17 Globemaster III, 15th Airlift Squadron Charleston AFB, South Carolina. The jump is part of the 82nd Airborne Division Associations annual convention in downtown Charleston Aug. 8-12. 300 members of the 82nd exited the C-17s in six passes. "The jump is the keystone event," said Captain Terrance McGraw, USA, event coordinator and commander, Headquarters Company, 82nd Airborne Division Support Command, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina, "It is part nostalgia and here is how we do it today. We have the utmost respect for the World War II...

A member of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division Fort Bragg, North Carolina, parachutes to the ground at Charleston Air Force Base after jumping from a C-17 Globemaster III, 15th Airlift Squadron Charleston AFB, South Carolina. The jump is part of the 82nd Airborne Division Associations annual convention in downtown Charleston Aug. 8-12. 300 members of the 82nd exited the C-17s in six passes. "The jump is the keystone event," said Captain Terrance McGraw, USA, event coordinator and commander, Headquarters Company, 82nd Airborne Division Support Command, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina, "It is part nostalgia and here is how we do it today. We have the utmost respect for the World War II...

A member of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division Fort Bragg, North Carolina, parachutes to the ground at Charleston Air Force Base after jumping from a C-17 Globemaster III, 15th Airlift Squadron Charleston AFB, South Carolina. The jump is part of the 82nd Airborne Division Associations annual convention in downtown Charleston Aug. 8-12. 300 members of the 82nd exited the C-17s in six passes. "The jump is the keystone event," said Captain Terrance McGraw, USA, event coordinator and commander, Headquarters Company, 82nd Airborne Division Support Command, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina, "It is part nostalgia and here is how we do it today. We have the utmost respect for the World War II...

A member of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division Fort Bragg, North Carolina, parachutes to the ground at Charleston Air Force Base after jumping from a C-17 Globemaster III, 15th Airlift Squadron Charleston AFB, South Carolina. The jump is part of the 82nd Airborne Division Associations annual convention in downtown Charleston Aug. 8-12. 300 members of the 82nd exited the C-17s in six passes. "The jump is the keystone event," said Captain Terrance McGraw, USA, event coordinator and commander, Headquarters Company, 82nd Airborne Division Support Command, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina, "It is part nostalgia and here is how we do it today. We have the utmost respect for the World War II...

Members of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division Fort Bragg, North Carolina, jump from a C-17 Globemaster III, 15th Airlift Squadron Charleston AFB, South Carolina. The jump was part of the 82nd Airborne Division Associations annual convention in downtown Charleston Aug. 8-12. 300 members of the 82nd exited from C-17s in six passes, 50 rs at a time. "The jump is the keystone event," said Captain Terrance McGraw, USA, event coordinator and commander, Headquarters Company, 82nd Airborne Division Support Command, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina, "It is part nostalgia and here is how we do it today. We have the utmost respect for the World War II veterans who did this on D-Day, those who...

Two members from the 437th Medical Group, Charleston Air Force Base (AFB) South Carolina, help an 82nd Army Airborne Ranger, Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, injured after jumping from a C-17 Globemaster III at Charleston AFB as part of the 82nd Airborne Division Association's annual convention. The convention is held every year in different locations to honor and show respect to veterans of the past and present. With three C-17s from Charleston AFB, members of the 82nd Airborne Division Association along with Air Force members were able to view all 300 troops deploying from the skies above Charleston AFB

Members of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division Fort Bragg, North Carolina, land on the Charleston Air Force Base runway after jumping from a C-17 Globemaster III, 15th Airlift Squadron Charleston AFB, South Carolina. The jump was part of the 82nd Airborne Division Associations annual convention in downtown Charleston Aug. 8-12. 300 members of the 82nd exited from C-17s in six passes, 50 jumpers at a time. "The jump is the keystone event," said Captain Terrance McGraw, USA, event coordinator and commander, Headquarters Company, 82nd Airborne Division Support Command, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina, "It is part nostalgia and here is how we do it today. We have the utmost respect for the...

US Army 82nd Airborne Division Soldiers from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, jump from a US Air Force (USAF) 15th Airlift Squadron C-17 Globemaster III aircraft, from Charleston AFB, South Carolina, during the 82nd Airborne Division Association's Annual Convention

With the parachute static lines from previous jumpers hugging the side of the 15th Airlift Squadron Charleston AFB, South Carolina, C-17 Globemaster IIIs slip stream, a member of the 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, prepares to jump over Charleston Air Force Base. "The jump is the keystone event," said Captain Terrance McGraw, USA, event coordinator and commander, Headquarters Company, 82nd Airborne Division Support Command, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina, "It is part nostalgia and here is how we do it today. We have the utmost respect for the World War II veterans who did this on D-Day, those who jumped in Korea, Vietnam and to this day. We do this to honor them."

One of the three C-17 Globemaster IIIs, 15th Airlift Squadron, Charleston Air Force Base (AFB), South Carolina, carrying a total of 300 Rangers from the 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The Rangers jumped, 50 at a time, onto Charleston AFB during the annual 82nd Airborne Division Association convention. The jump is in honor and remembrance of our veterans

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Base: Charleston Air Force Base

State: South Carolina (SC)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: SRA Sarayuth Pinthong, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public

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An Air Force C-17A Globemaster III, 437th Airlift Wing (AW), Charleston AFB, South Carolina, prepares to depart Germany loaded with Tri-Wall Aerial Delivery System (TRIADS) containers. Air Force C-17's delivered Humanitarian Daily Rations (HDR) in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM from Germany to Afghan refugees who massed inside the borders of Afghanistan. The C-17's carried more than 35,000 HDRs packed in 84 TRIAD boxes. Each box measures 80 inches tall and 48 inches square, containing 420 HDRs. The HDRs were delivered in a first of its kind, high-altitude airdrop. This is the first operational TRIAD delivery from a C-17 aircraft as well as the first combat airdrop mission...

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