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Tandem Team

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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Tandem Team and GK8 Team Up to Form a Rare Hybrid Formation

June 22, 2010

Tandem Team and GK 8 joined forces today after training was complete to form a rare “hybrid” formation. A “hybrid” formation is a combination of traditional belly flyers and vertical flyers. In today’s formation, GK 8 members SSG Justin Blewitt, SSG Josh Coleman, SSG Matt Accord and SGT Mike LaRoche  launched a perfect four-man round formation.  Tandem team [...]

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SFC Mike Elliot visits the Steve Harvey Mentoring Weekend

June 18, 2010

SFC Mike Elliott of the Army Golden Knights Tandem Team is spending this weekend mentoring young men attending the Steve Harvey Mentoring Weekend in Dallas TX.The Steve Harvey Mentoring Weekend For Young Men is a 4 day, 3 night program designed to teach the Principles of Manhood to young men to enable them to achieve their [...]

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Miss Fayetteville North Carolina skydives with the Golden Knights

June 18, 2010

Today the Golden Knights tandem team had several special guests.  Kinsey Boarts, recently crowned Miss Fayetteville, NC, along with Miss Harnett County and soldiers from Ft. Bragg spent time with the Golden Knights today.  Kinsey learned what it takes to jump out of an airplane.  Personal courage, personal strength and SSG Joe Jones, all helped [...]

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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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