Blue Skies and a Little Extra Altitude

June 18, 2010

Luckily, there is air conditioning in the Golden Knights training facility at Laurinburg-Maxton airport in Laurinburg, NC. The temperatures got up to the mid-nineties in the early afternoon, but not even Mother Nature could dampen the motivation and focus of Black Team training day. The Team completed a total of five jumps: two from 3500 [...]

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Tandem Team meets Tech #Woopra

June 18, 2010

Today the Golden Knights take Woopra CEO John Pozadzides on his first ever tandem jump. John P, as he likes to be called, is at Golden Knights headquarters to teach Team bloggers the ins and outs of internet blogging. John P. also is co-founder of a premiere blogging conference.    John began his exciting adventure [...]

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@Johnp signing the jump waiver. There’s blue skies and in an hour he will see them up close

June 17, 2010

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Canopy Piloting Tips

June 16, 2010

Canopy Piloting Tips: A CRASH Course in Avoiding…Canopy Crashes By SFC Tom Bovee and SFC Greg Windmiller It’s summer time and the time is right…for jumping out of planes! Just returning from a deployment? Haven’t been to the drop zone for while? Visiting a new drop zone or are you just new to sky diving? [...]

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Football Hall of Famer takes a leap #NFL #Bengals #ArmyStrong

June 16, 2010

It was the final day here in Cincinnati and like the past 4 days it started off with low cloud coverage. Today we had the honor to introduce skydiving to a football Hall of Famer, Anthony Munoz. The Team met Anthony last month after the jump into Cincinnati Reds game. Anthony discussed his foundation and [...]

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