Army Staff Sgt. Jacob Brock, a paratrooper with Company C, 2nd Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, meets up with his father, New York Army National Guard Maj. Douglas Brock, deputy chaplain of the 42nd Infantry Division, following his successful airborne jump at the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC), Fort Polk, La., on July 20, 2016. Staff Sgt. Brock jumped into Fort Polk July 17th as part of an Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise into JRTC, securing an objective in the fictional country of Atropia and then turning it over to
Army Staff Sgt. Jacob Brock, a paratrooper with Company C, 2nd Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, meets up with his father, New York Army National Guard Maj. Douglas Brock, deputy chaplain of the 42nd Infantry Division, following his successful airborne jump at the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC), Fort Polk, La., on July 20, 2016. Staff Sgt. Brock jumped into Fort Polk July 17th as part of an Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise into JRTC, securing an objective in the fictional country of Atropia and then turning it over to the JRTC rotational unit, the New York Army National Guard's 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team. The 2-501st had 96 hours to prepare their mission planning for the exercise. Chaplain Brock is deployed to Fort Polk as part of the JRTC Exercise Support Group, supporting nearly 6,000 Soldiers of the 27th IBCT during the JRTC rotation. This rotation was the first opportunity since Staff Sgt. Brock's enlistment in 2009 that he was on the same military post as his father at the same time. ( Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Harley Jelis)
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