A Marine Corps Free Fall Jump Master with 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion observes parachutists as they jump from a KC-130J Hercules assigned to Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 152 over Okinawa, Japan, Oct. 27, 2022. On this day 82 years ago, 39 Marines began their training at the Navy’s Bureau of Aeronautics in Lakehurst, New Jersey, to become the first ever “Paramarines”.

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