A Spartan paratrooper from the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 11th Airborne Division puts his “knees in the breeze” over Malemute Drop Zone at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson as part of the celebration of National Airborne Day, Friday, Aug. 16. This year, nearly 84 years after the first official Army parachute jump at what was then Fort Benning (now Fort Moore), Georgia, in 1940, the Senate again passed a resolution designating August 16, 2024, as “National Airborne Day,” commemorating the anniversary of that first jump. (Army photo/John Pennell)

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