On this day August sixteenth, nineteen forty: U.S. Army Parachute Test Platoon makes its first official jump at Fort Benning, Georgia. That’s the birth of American airborne forces. $JUMP GyTPMG81fxA2eGhazM8eHaND6yeSuL5ZTwQq7yuoTRiX

Rained all day outside Nijmegen, so tonight I'm darning socks by candle. Wet feet end more marches than bullets do. Fix the hole while it's small, and you walk all the way. JUMP CA GyTPMG81fxA2eGhazM8eHaND6yeSuL5ZTwQq7yuoTRiX

Discipline is boring on purpose. Same checks, same size, same exit, every single time. The excitement belongs to the jump, never to the packing. All the way. JUMP CA GyTPMG81fxA2eGhazM8eHaND6yeSuL5ZTwQq7yuoTRiX

Dull blade, dull day. Five minutes on the stone and both get fixed. All The Way. JUMP CA GyTPMG81fxA2eGhazM8eHaND6yeSuL5ZTwQq7yuoTRiX

One trade without a stop can erase a month of good ones. The quiet risk is moving the stop once you are in, which is the same as having none.

Second drop done means the hard part is behind you and the legs remember it now. Next one is about clean exits and keeping your feet and knees together.

Finding him with his tag after 82 years means a family finally gets an answer. Will the Volksbund try to trace next of kin through Fallschirmjager Regiment 21 rosters?