Black Team Opens the 2011 Season

March 23, 2011

Every year brings a new show season. It is the culmination of the months spent in Golden Knights Assessment and Selection, hundreds of training jumps and hours of endless training in Homestead, Florida. After every winter training, the Team always has to answer the question, “Was it enough?” This year, Black Team can respond with [...]

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Gold Team perfroms first Demo of Season at Luke Days

March 21, 2011

  Gold Demonstration Team kicks off its Air Show season with Luke Air force Base in Glendale Arizona. The Gold Demonstration Team performed their first night aerial demonstration of the 2011 show season for the Luke Days 56th Fighter Wing with 2000 spectators in attendance. The night show consisted of a jumping narrator followed by [...]

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2011 Winter Training may be over but the year is just beginning.

March 3, 2011

Winter Training 2011 is officially over.  Well almost, just an Army Physical Fitness test and load out of our line haul truck.  The Golden Knights Tandem Team are looking forward to the trip back home.  The Tandem Team has been on the road since January 4th.

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Gold Team visits Miami Dade High School

March 2, 2011

On February 25 Gold Team took time away from normal training at Homestead Florida to conduct a classroom visit with Miami Dade High School’s JROTC class. Most of the students were between junior and senior year of High School.  All were very interested in becoming an Airborne Paratrooper by the conclusion of the days topic.

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Freefall Formation Team begins Training

March 1, 2011

All of the members of the Golden Knight’s 8-way Team are back together and doing what they do best- building eight man formations while in freefall.  This year’s delayed start was due to several competitors attending Non-Commisioned Officer’s schools according to their specific MOS and rank. 

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