jump school
Parachute training facility
Jump school is military training where soldiers learn to parachute from aircraft.
The U.S.
Army's Basic Airborne Course at Fort Moore, Georgia, is the most common referent: He went through jump school before joining the 82nd Airborne.
Completing jump school earns paratroopers their wings.
- skydivingRecreational freefall from aircraft
- paratrooperMilitary aerial deployer
- airborneTraveling through air
- static lineAnchored deployment cable
- jumpmasterAircraft exit controller
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