Black Team Lights up “Rhythm and Booms”

July 4, 2010

  Black Team gave Madison, Wisconsin their money’s worth this weekend in front of more than 250,000 spectators. The Team performed a practice jump Friday afternoon and two jumps Saturday. The crowd for Friday’s jump was relatively sparse, but word of mouth travels fast up north and the crowd was unbelievable Saturday! The sight was [...]

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Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense spends day with the Golden Knights

July 2, 2010

Another fantastic day with the Golden Knights Tandem Team.  Today we had another distinguished visitor. William Lietzau who recently retired from the USMC and is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense  Detainee Policy, took a few hours out of his busy visit to Fort Bragg to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. The weather [...]

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Judge Makes Leap with Golden Knights

June 25, 2010

We may have hit the 100 degree mark yesterday in Fayetteville, but Superior Court Judge Doug Sasser knew just where to go to escape the heat. At 13,500 feet above the Laurinburg-Maxton airport in North Carolina, the weather was in the 60′s and just a little breezy.  Judge Sasser, Cumberland County Assistant DA Calvin Colyer, [...]

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GK Pilots Jump Too? No Way!!

June 24, 2010

The tables were turned today at the Team’s training drop zone in Laurinburg, NC as one of the Team’s pilots went from the driver’s seat to the hot seat! Golden Knights’ Aviation detachment commander Major Craig Blackwood handed the controls over to his fellow pilots and, for the first time in his life, landed without [...]

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Knight Flies After 20 Years

June 23, 2010

Today SFC James Halterman retired at the Golden Knight’s Headquarters Facility after 20 years of faithful service to his country. Former Sergeant Major Michael Eitniear, former Black Team leader SFC Dan Moesch, CW2 Chris Altman, family and friends and two Captains who were cadets trained by Halterman at West Point, stood alongside the current Team to [...]

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