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Originally Posted by Sinister
5th Group used to run two iterations of the Basic Airborne Course during the summer for ROTC Cadets finishing their summer camp when it was run at Bragg.
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I got to participate in one of the ROTC Jump Schools at Bragg. Got my first Army "A - cheeeeese - ment" ribbon as an impact award, instructing ROTC Jump School summer of '81(?). As I recall the award had just been authorized and some GO was walking around with a pocket full of them looking for a formation to descend on. We had just pinned wings on the cadets and he took advantage of the situation. Have to admit, teaching the cadets was fun. College kids can hold their own when it comes to partying. 
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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