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Tandem Team

Golden Knights Set Their Sights on Becoming Tandem Instructors

August 6, 2010

Eight members of the Golden Knights, mostly from the Demonstration Teams, began the classroom portion of the Tandem Course yesterday at the Team’s training drop zone in Laurinburg, NC. A tandem instructor is qualified to take a first-time jumper on a skydive, using a special harness and parachute system. The parachute is much bigger than [...]

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Golden Knight gets ready for the Womens Vertical World Record.

August 2, 2010

This week members of the Golden Knights are at Skydive Chicago, training for upcoming world record events. Sgt Jen Schaben of the Gold Demonstration team is participating in the Womens camp getting ready for the Womens world record attempt later this year. The camp is designed to hand pick the women who will be in [...]

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Golden Knights fly above West Virgina

July 17, 2010

The Tandem Team took to the skies above Beckley, West Virginia on Friday. The weather was perfect for jumping out of airplanes. SFC Mike Elliott conducted the Tandem Briefing Friday morning as “Team Six” flew the Otter up from Pope AFB. Just as SFC Elliott finished up the class the Twin Otter wheels touched down [...]

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DALLAS here we come!

July 15, 2010

It’s true. We’re coming to Dallas, Texas this August. Texas Rangers Stadium – August 24th – we’ll be part of the pre-game activities with a demonstration right into the park as a part of the Future Soldier activities the Rangers Organization is supporting in coordination with U.S. Army Recruiting Command. Hat tip and a big [...]

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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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