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    XVIII Airborne Corps Air Assault Training

    XVIII Airborne Corps Air Assault Training

    Photo By Sgt. Hubert Delany | XVIII Airborne Corps DeGlopper Air Assault School students listen to instructions from...... read more read more

    FORT BRAGG, NORTH CAROLINA, UNITED STATES

    01.25.2017

    Story by Pfc. Hubert Delany 

    22nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment   

    FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- Instructors and students at the XVIII Airborne Corps DeGlopper Air Assault School conducted Air Assault training from a UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopter at Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 25, 2017. The course which spans over 10 days is intended to train Soldiers in the use of sling load transportation and for Air Assault operations.

    The school was opened on Sept. 5, 2013, and is named after Pfc. Charles DeGlopper, a famed paratrooper who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor after serving in the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment during World War II.

    Throughout the course, the students are put through a 12 mile ruck march, a two and four mile run, an obstacle course, helicopter repels, and hours of instruction with the goal of strengthening America’s military with Service Members executing Air Assault capabilities.

    Fort Bragg, which houses the school, is known for being the home of U.S. Army Airborne and Special Operations Forces.

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    Date Taken: 01.25.2017
    Date Posted: 01.27.2017 17:23
    Story ID: 221668
    Location: FORT BRAGG, NORTH CAROLINA, US

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