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Originally Posted by CPTAUSRET
Going to show my age here, you youngsters call it "Airborne School", correct?
We called it "Jump School", early 60's. I still remember buying my first pair of "Corcoran, jump boots"!
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'Unofficially' it will always be Jump School, but if you look back at your diploma/orders (has the parchment, or was it papyrus back then, held up well?) they'll Actually say: US Army Infantry Training Center, Fort Benning, Georgia - Basic Airborne Course - even mine from 1980 says that, although back in your day Wilbur and Orville were still flying the planes, right? 
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