Paratroopers with 1st Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division (Advise and Assist Brigade), stationed at Camp Ramadi, Iraq, execute parachute landing falls from a wooden platform as part of a basic airborne refresher course being taught by instructors visiting from Fort Bragg’s Advanced Airborne School, Feb. 5, 2010. The PLF, executed with the feet and knees together and arms to the chest, allows a parachutist to dissipate the kinetic energy of landing in a controlled rolling motion, thus, avoiding injury. ( Army photo by Spc. Michael J. MacLeod, 1/82 AAB, USD-C) executing parachute landing falls b

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Paratroopers with 1st Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division (Advise and Assist Brigade), stationed at Camp Ramadi, Iraq, execute parachute landing falls from a wooden platform as part of a basic airborne refresher course being taught by instructors visiting from Fort Bragg’s Advanced Airborne School, Feb. 5, 2010. The PLF, executed with the feet and knees together and arms to the chest, allows a parachutist to dissipate the kinetic energy of landing in a controlled rolling motion, thus, avoiding injury. ( Army photo by Spc. Michael J. MacLeod, 1/82 AAB, USD-C) executing parachute landing falls by 1st Armored Division and Fort Bliss

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