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• n  a soldier in the paratroops

• A student paratrooper stepped into space, 700 ft.
• The wounded paratrooper was wheeled straight onto the operating table, and the surgeons were in and out in an hour and a half.
• Chvez, 50, a former army paratrooper who led a failed coup in 1992, was elected in 1998 riding a wave of outrage against Venezuela's corruption.

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News & Articles

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• Dozens skydive to raise money for veterans health
  When decorated Korean War paratrooper John “Red” Pelan turned 77 in 2008, he had an unusual request for his family and friends. He wanted to jump out of a plane again. Years after his successful birthday jump, more than 40 people carried on that tradition at Skydive Long Island in Calverton Sunday afternoon, leaping out of [...]
  June 10, 2013 - The Suffolk Times
• Dozens skydive in Calverton to raise money for veterans health
  When decorated Korean War paratrooper John Red Pelan turned 77 in 2008, he had an unusual request for his family and friends. He wanted to jump out of a plane again.
  June 10, 2013 - The Riverhead News-Review

Quotes

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• Martin Windrow in The Associated Press
  He has been called the best paratrooper in the world, and whatever the truth of that, he most certainly has a claim as the most battle-proven,said Martin Windrow, a British military historian and expert on France's colonial wars.
• Kevyn Major Howard in WhoWon.com
  We just gave $5,000 to beautiful baby Grace Dunn, daughter of Army Sgt. Clayton G. Dunn II,Howard said. "Her father is a fallen hero - a 22-year-old paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division who died in Balad, Iraq, after an improvised...
• Paul Kennedy in San Francisco Chronicle
  I went to Vermont with my bronzes of Stonewall Jackson, Joshua Chamberlain (a Union colonel) and a piece of my 82nd Airborne work showing a paratrooper landing at Normandy. I put them on the table in front of a group of National Guard officers, and... Terry Jones http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Jones&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGrS8F7eNun9Vki-43Ja959mWD7nA Delaware County Daily Times http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.delcotimes.com/site/news.cfm%3Fnewsid%3D20116011%26BRD%3D1675%26PAG%3D461%26dept_id%3D18171%26rfi%3D6&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGQFFmYQoavinQx_IfVLex9N0Mnug Sep 10, 2008 72243 96632 paratroops The big but (is) the permanent five have to agree. If they wanted to, they could put in a force of 10,000 US Marines and 10,000 Russian paratroops, order Israel to stop flying, and squash Hezbollah. In theory," Kennedy said, referring to the...