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mojaveman 08-10-2015 23:32
Army celebrates 75 years of the American paratrooper
 
I wonder if any of the original volunteers are still around?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...ooper/31404901

Pete 08-11-2015 05:20
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Originally Posted by mojaveman (Post 590207)
I wonder if any of the original volunteers are still around?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...ooper/31404901
From the article "...Today, only one member of the test platoon, Thaddeus Selman, is still alive..."

Team Sergeant 08-11-2015 09:30
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Originally Posted by mojaveman (Post 590207)
I wonder if any of the original volunteers are still around?
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fred111 08-13-2015 07:11
In the mid-late 70's I was assigned to the Airborne Department at Fort Benning. The Department held a dinner for the members of the Test Platoon. Quite a few attended.

They were very interesting and had a lot of really good (and some funny) stories to tell.

I only wish that I could have taped all of the stories.

Team Sergeant 08-13-2015 09:06
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Originally Posted by fred111 (Post 590459)
In the mid-late 70's I was assigned to the Airborne Department at Fort Benning. The Department held a dinner for the members of the Test Platoon. Quite a few attended.

They were very interesting and had a lot of really good (and some funny) stories to tell.

I only wish that I could have taped all of the stories.
I was in that area, May 1978....:munchin ;)

fred111 08-14-2015 18:26
If memory serves, in May 78 I was with Tower Branch.


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