Retired Lt. Col. Jon Ring, former 1-507th Battalion commander, presents a gift from the Liberty Jump Team to current 1-507th Battalion commander Lt. Col. Korey Brown, at Fort Benning, Ga., Aug. 15, 2015. The 1-507th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) Battalion celebrates 75 years of the Army Airborne School and the commemoration of the last qualifying jump of the first airborne test platoon on Aug. 15, 1940.

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