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2013-07-12-Fort Benning, GA.-Gabe is Airborne!
  • Jul 15, 2013
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Gabe's silver paratrooper wings
Zipline tower
C-47-A Paratrooper Workhorse during WW II, Korea and Viet Nam
Paratroopers in training
Godspeed to Paratroopers!
We found him
Third Battalion
82nd Airborne Division flag
Airborne Walk
Airborne Walk
Sreaming Eagles
The All American Division
Rangers Lead the Way!
A paratrroper "bus" of yesteryear
Black Ops jumpers
Airborne battles globally
The Airborne walk
Airborme troopers on the "Longest Day"
Rangers Lead the Way! All the Way!
Jump tower in the fog
To all airborne troopers past, present and future
Site of the Aiborne School geaduation ceremony
Airborne!
C-47, one of the most durable aircraft of all time and the "bus" of paratroopers from WW II to Nam
Workhorse
A proud snout
Zipline tower used during week two of jump school training
Zip line training
Field vehicle in NATO camo
Airborne School graduates gather with their instructors before the graduation ceremony
Perfecting technique on the zipline
Knees and feet together!
Family members gather for the ceremony
Airborne!
A member of the 1st battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, trainers of all Airborne forces
Graduates mobilizing. Mostly Army but also Marines (brown fatigues) and Air Force (blue fatigues)
The 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment (motto "Down to Earth"), trainers of all Airborne forces.
Airborne School graduates and their instructors move to the graduation exercises.
Airborne School graduates and their instructors move to the graduation exercises.
Airborne School graduates and their instructors move to the graduation exercises.
Gabe-last row
Airborne School graduates move to the graduation exercises.
Airborne School Grads at parade rest (Gabe-dead center)
Airborne School Grads at parade rest (Gabe-dead center)
First Battalion, 507th Infantry Battalion salute their commanders
The command
The graduates
Gabe
The Command
Marine Corp "Black Hat". Black Hats are Airborne School instructors.
Graduates and their NCOs at attention
Graduation speeches
Gabe and fellow Airborne graduates
Airborne instructors
Award recipients receive congratulations
Award recipients return to the ranks
Jump towers loom over the graduates
Fathers and grandfathers who graduated from Airborne School (They get to pin their sons, daughters, grandsons and granddaughters with their silver airborne wings.)
Fathers and grandfathers who graduated from Airborne School with their new grads (They get to pin their sons, daughters, grandsons and granddaughters with their silver airborne wings)
The graduates
Georgia pins Gabe's Silver Airborne Wings
Georgia pins Gabe's Silver Airborne Wings
Gabe is Airborne!
Paratrooper!
A proud mom with her paratrooper
The coveted silver wings
A proud dad and his Airborne son
After the "pinning" ceremony
Just before the march off
Airborne graduates prepare to move out
Moving out at double time
A paratrooper transport of yore
The jump towers
The jump towers
Georgia
Tom
Zip line tower
Zip line tower
Airborne!
The All Services Paratrooper School
Rangers Lead the Way!
The 507th Parachute Regiment...Trainers of the Airborne
Every paratrooper owes gratitude to the 507th
Jump tower with the 82nd Airborne insignia
Jump tower with the 75th Ranger Regiment scroll insignia
Paratroopers Extarordinaire
An Air Force grad of Paratrroper School leaves the compound
Airborne!
Back at barracks post graduation
A "Black Hat" calls the Ranger candidates forward.
Airorne troopers assemble at their barracks
A "Black Hat" calls all Rager candidates
Ranger candidates jog off
Ranger candidates front and center!
Gabe in his civies after getting weekend leave
With Airborne School behind him, Gabe is off for the weekend
We celebrated Gabe's graduation at the Canon Brew Pub in Columbus, Georgia
A fine establishment with good grub and brew
Tooling around uptown Columbus
Fanciful sculptures like this are plentiful in Columbus
Columbus
A phalanx of banana bikes
Restoring a Columbus architectural treasure
The stately First Presbyterian Church, Columbus
Another unusual sculpture, Columbus
At the Canon Brewpub
A paratrooper and his proud dad
On Columbus' riverfront many former mills and warehouses have been converted to loft condos
A landmark building, home of Columbus' main newspaper
Ranger Joe's a great place to buy military and tactical gear
Ranger Joe's a great place to buy military and tactical gear
Ranger Joe's
The three jump towers on Eubanks Filed, Ft. Benning. A fourth was knocked down by a tornado.
Zipline tower with the 82nd Airborne crest.
Gabe's home while in Airborne School
Gabe's home while in Airborne School
Jump and zipline towers
The Airborne Battle Memorial and a vintage troop transport
Ranger Field
Command Center, Fort Benning
Ranger Monument, Fort Benning
Ranger Monument, Fort Benning
Ranger Monument, Fort Benning
Ranger Monument, Fort Benning
Ranger Creed at the Ranger Monument, Fort Benning
Ranger Monument, Fort Benning
All the way!
Ranger Monument, Fort Benning
Ranger Monument, Fort Benning
Command Center, Fort Benning
Command Center, Fort Benning
Cavalry Memorial
Infantry Memorial Statue
Cavalry Memorial Statue
WW II vintage building, Fort Benning
Old barracks, Fort Benning
Fort Benning-Home of the Infantry and now the Armor School
View from our room, Marriot Courtyard Suite, Columbus, GA
Georgia enjoying her book
Jump towers at dusk, Fort Benning
Dusk at Fort Benning
Dusk at Fort Benning

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