Jump Towers - Airborne School, Fort Benning, GA

A quick look at one of the 34 foot towers and the 250 foot towers. The 34 foot towers simulate jumping/exiting from an Aircraft while in a parachute harness hanging from a cable, and the 250 tower gives you the opportunity to actually be under canopy, dropped after you reach the top. I want to thank one of the Senior Black Hats for allowing me to get some footage of both. Airborne! Class 22(I think)-85!

I want to say Thank You to all the serviceman for your services. My father went to this jump school in 45.

[DaveCullen]

Amazing video. Thank you so much. I am writing a book on two soldiers and trying to help them reconstruct and confirm their memories of what they could see from up top decades ago. This was invaluable. Thanks!

[Gentry]

Went thru with Alpha company July 89....cat 5/6 every damn day! So, they moved up our runs in the morning around 4 am, still was cat 5/6! I think we had around 600 plus soldiers maybe 700 that started. But, after those killer runs with a meat wagon on the rear end, we ended up graduating around 3 to 400. Man they were falling out like flies, from the runs and to all of the not so PLFs that were being performed. Man those Black Hat doesn't play around, don't sing or clap and watch what happens....
Airborne to all that made/makes it through to LEG forever for the ones that don't!!!
3 jumps C141 starlifter and 2 with the C130s, my first night jump was a real night jump...not a dawn jump lol.

Airborne/Rigger my packs open

[daviddavis]

1968 here. Aamazing view suspended in air like that.

[lucysmithers]

Thank you for your service. My father went to Fort Benning Georgia when WW2 broke out. He was I. the army airforce and was a crew chief on The B 17 bomber known as The. Flying Fortress.

[carl]

Master Airborne one of the greatest qualifications-until you find out what your day is like as a primary or even worse the DZNCO lol.

[mikethemechanic]

I went through Airbone school in 94. Was stationed at Benning 93-97. I spent many weekends drinking beer and sneaking into the airplanes on the ground and climbing the tower…

[robertwelcome]

I GRADUATED FROM JUMP SCHOOL 1969 AIRBORNE ALL THE WAY.THEN FROM JUMP SCHOOL TO THE 82ND AIRBORNE DIV. FORT BRAGG NORTH CAROLINA

[RichLobo]

Sure looks a lot different than when I went through Jump School in 1963. The 34 foot tower look much more modern, and dare I say not so rickety! I would love it if you encluded some video of trainees going through their paces on the towers.
All the way Sir! Airborne!

[louismcdaniel]

I graduated jump school Feb.1967 then ft. Bragg n.c. 118th m.p. co. 18th airborne Corp.

[shakamakana]

'69 jump school and 173rd Airborne, RVN ! 😎

[txhc]

Sucks when I went to airborne school in 1996, we didn't experience the towers.

[miguelppm]

Graduated november 1965. Then to Vietnam with the "All the Way Brigade" (1st Brigade, First Air Cavalry, Airmobile). Then back to Benningto Harmony Church.

[willia]

Graduated Airborne 1983.  All I remember about it is we started with over 250 men.  12 women.  Graduated 82 men and 2 women.  1 man died.  Snapped his neck on a landing.  Several got screwed up during jump week.  And had to be medevacked. Its no joke.  Its the real deal.

[JH-pnzd]

May 1987 graduate here. Takes me back…

[michaelhaskins]

I was there in 1972 after returning from Vietnam 533rd engineer Bt.

[k.crowley]

My Levi is here training. I am so proud of him. SO PROUD.

[robbenmitchell]

I did that in 83, incredible memory. I remember the stunning view just before they released me.

[jamesleon]

😂😂😂😂😂 You Americans love to sugar coat the of your airborne training. Probably the easiest airborne wings training school in the world that I ever completed .. it’s so easy.

Love from Winston Churchills Parachute Regiment UK, 2 PARA

You’ll always, and always will be … the infants 🎉🎉🎉❤️❤️❤️

Love you guys ❤

[NotWhatYouThink]

Hey Todd, let me know if you are ok with us using a few seconds of your footage in a video that we are working on, on the history of parachutes.
We will credit your name in the video, of course.
If you would like to send us a message, our email is in the "About" page of our channel [only visible on desktop].
Thanks!