For all you airborne folk out there:
The week-long Exercise Pegasus Reply, hosted by 9 Parachute Squadron Royal Engineers, has seen British, German and American soldiers join forces for two parachute jumps to share experiences and working practices.
The training was the third in a series of similar multinational exercises, with Luftlandepionerkompanie 270 (Lpk 270) hosting the previous two at their base in Seedorf, northern Germany. American soldiers from 321 Special Tactics Squadron (321 STS), based at RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, also took part.
The troops dropped onto the STANTA training area in Norfolk, with soldiers jumping from a British C-130J Hercules aircraft using British parachutes on Wednesday of last week and from an American MC-130H Combat Talon II using American parachutes on Thursday.
read more here: http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/TrainingAndAdventure/BritishGermanAndAmericanSoldiersTakeToTheSkiesToge ther.htm
i guess seeing German paratroopers jumping out of a Luftwaffe aircraft is still too much to stomach over England
good to see this sort of cross training going on, and great to see the Sappers leading the way - even in the skies.
The week-long Exercise Pegasus Reply, hosted by 9 Parachute Squadron Royal Engineers, has seen British, German and American soldiers join forces for two parachute jumps to share experiences and working practices.
The training was the third in a series of similar multinational exercises, with Luftlandepionerkompanie 270 (Lpk 270) hosting the previous two at their base in Seedorf, northern Germany. American soldiers from 321 Special Tactics Squadron (321 STS), based at RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, also took part.
The troops dropped onto the STANTA training area in Norfolk, with soldiers jumping from a British C-130J Hercules aircraft using British parachutes on Wednesday of last week and from an American MC-130H Combat Talon II using American parachutes on Thursday.
read more here: http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/TrainingAndAdventure/BritishGermanAndAmericanSoldiersTakeToTheSkiesToge ther.htm
i guess seeing German paratroopers jumping out of a Luftwaffe aircraft is still too much to stomach over England
good to see this sort of cross training going on, and great to see the Sappers leading the way - even in the skies.
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