Day in the life: Airborne Paratrooper | U.S. Army 

Unless you're a JM. You'll get rigged up right as the bird is ready for PAX

It's literally just a day. The rest of your time is spent doing nothing every other day of the month.

That's the best part.

It’s an army recruitment video. They are obviously gonna emphasize the high speed shit and not the hurry up and wait that’s the actual day to day life

Ooh yeah the video is not complete. are you in the us army? I am not in the army I live in Nigeria but interested that is why I understand the process in starting a career

Honestly

Don’t forget about the vape to go with the monster

I also didn’t see anyone dipping and there wasn’t a single spitter anywhere. They cleaned this up well 😂😂

I’ve never slept in PTs after graduating AIT lol

@@SoulUnknown821 normal soilders don't.

One of the dumbest things I had to do was the whole platoon had to pick daisies by hand because our lawn mowers and weed eaters were all broken, or the time we spent the entire day at the range and never shot because they forgot to get ammo. Show time was 0300 didn't leave the range until 1800. Oh how I miss my Army days.

😂 damn. It be hot also.

@@keivontaehill Facts

yeah? no wonder you left..

@@masonbriar5511 I'm reading your comment in my barracks room right now.

The airborne timeline is the fucking worst

@@loganwc99 also make a video of “A day in the life of a paratrooper on chute shake out”

Let’s not forget the fuck your Saturday “fun” jump lmaooo

@@SoulUnknown821 just did that shit yesterday 😂

@@SoulUnknown821 or, the mandatory fun Friday night movie the last free weekend before deployment

😯😠😁☝️/👍

Hoping it gets scratched

Yes.

Sitting at green ramp hours and hours waiting for the Air Force to give the go ahead to load.

@@eddieBoxer gotta love that baby! I became very good friends with the grass at green ramp.

-Fantasize about what your life would have been if you had joined the Air Force -Fantasize about what your life would have been if you had passed RASP -Regret not joining the Air Force -Almost cry, but the emltional numbness and knee pain hold back the tears

🤣😅……………………… 🥲

11Janitor

@@EmperorSenate They will be well versed in area beautification and the janitorial arts at least.

Hey! There’s still a chance of ww breaking out…

No way you’re waking up at 0245 for a 1500 TOT. Probably not even for a MASSTAC.

Were you in 11th Airborne Division? That was a long time ago. I hope you record your personal history. I would love to hear it.

@@LRRPFco52 No it was the 509th of 8th Division then. It was in 1963-65. There was a ROAD (Reorganization of Army Divisions) just before that time. Prior to that it was the old 505 Div. We became Airborne Mechanized and jumped in but met our squad vehicles for further movement. Had M113's as squad carriers and M114's command vehicles. A Company was 4 Invantry Platoons and a platoon of heavy weapons which included Jeep mounted 105 Recoiless Rifles and a Platoon of Davy Crockett small yield Tactical weapons set up on an artillery platform. This was the height of the cold war. No games!!! Drop into valley near East Germany and see East German and Russian tanks and artillery pointed back at us. Someone killed daily trying to escape iron curtain!!! Incredible experience and a tense time. 509th was a STRAC unit ready for combat. Spit and polish Airborne. Cochran jump boots with toes shinning from wax. Some great athletes! Our company sent 5 guys to Olympics and 4 or 5 soldiers to prison for life!! Hurdler-Willie Davenport won Gold, Boxers- Jimmy Ellis and Eric Mundy won Silvers, and Weightlifter- Angel Luciaga placed. We had the best of the best and some major league fuckups!!! Tough tough kids from all aspects of poor families. Rednecks, blacks, and many foreigners serving in our military to get citizenship. Unbelievable experience for all of us but especially for me. I went on to Infantry OCS and into US Army Special Forces where I served until Captain.

@@boblittle6849 Thanks for sharing. We lived in Munich from 1980-'82. I love Germany and Europe. My mom is from Finland. I went Airborne and was in 4 different Airborne units in the Army, F Co 52nd Long Range Surveillance at Ft. Lewis, 1st SFG at Lewis, 1 SWTG, and 82nd Airborne. Was in 3 leg units as well, 3rd US Inf TOG in DC, 1-506th in Korea, and 1st BDE 25th at Lewis. I haven't heard ROAD in a long time. I'm a big student of the MTO&E history dating back to The Great War, with particular interest in the 1950s-1970s. I collect uniforms and TA-50/LBE as well from those time periods and more.

Geronimo! 82/83

@@boblittle6849Which Kaserne?

Gotta GI the latrines before anything else!

Retention is at an all time low along with recruiting lol.

More like layouts waiting in the cof daily

LOLOLOLOL

Have gone a long as almost six months without a jump. Think about it. One jump at the beginning of a six month block and then another at the end. I would have jumped 3 months forward and 3 months back. I am covered for six months jump pay

Thats because they don't want you to see it.

@@mbninjaguy haha…very true…not to mention that 1) if the jump is later in the day or a night jump, you’re still getting up and doing PT that day or 2) if it’s an early jump, you’re still going back to work for the rest of the day. 😂

every follow on mission for us involves a 13mi ruck back to the ASTA

@@Sean_Carroll LMAO!

They never show the paratrooper waddle out to the birds from Green Ramp.

Yeah wtf was that 6 second count.

@@tennray T-11. It's the new chute, a lot bigger than T-10, opens slower. Look at how huge the reserves are. I jumped T-10s my whole time in, never had an issue, but some of my guys did. They've had issues with T-11 as well.

@@LRRPFco52 i get the difference in chute but is there a 6 second count now as well? Jumped several variations of T-10 myself. The only 6 second count was out of HUEY or Blackhawk for me.

@@tennray I jumped UH-60 with T-10 but don't recall if there was a longer count. We were at 90kts and higher than I had ever jumped (only 1500ft AGL if I recall). Jumped tailgate from Chinooks for Saturday fun jump/straphanger/payhurt jump while my sister and a family friend watched from the bleachers on Sicily DZ. I can ask about why T-11 had a longer count in this video.

@@LRRPFco52 Chute didn't matter when I was jumping it was fixed wing vs rotary wing aircraft 4 second or 6 second

No kidding man it’s terrible lol

I was lucky. As a jumpmaster I moved around, but jeesus, the work!

Tell him he seemed a little bit tense around the 2 minute mark😂

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@@cmilly3970 ???

From talking with people around base, there seems to be more injuries with the T-11 than with the T-10

So true

T10-D all the way Bru, Sky Soldiers.

Back in my time jumping was a once a month routine not an everyday thing! What was an everyday thing was early morning PT in fatigues and boots. This started at 0600 and lasted about 45minutes followed by showers, a breakfast in the mess hall, then a shower. The work day usually started somewhere around 0830-0900. The day consisted of any number of things-police call, classroom instruction, field training, other duties. Jumping was actually a very small part of all of it. When we did have a jump it was usually scheduled for early evening and it ate up a lot of time for prep, loading, jumping assembling and returning to Post and then cleaning and stowing equipment. It made for a long day! For riggers and supply people it was even worse, their day started with checking and issuing personnel parachutes, rigging loads and then collecting up all of the air items afterwards and then starting the process of repacking by shaking out chutes, inspecting them and then hanging them in the drying tower. Being a paratrooper meant doing so much more than a “Hollywood Jump”!

As a German, I thought the same 😂

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They probably don't do that crap anymore.

Painting rocks! Raking gravel!

Yes but when you finally get down, AAAH!

You need to visit Bragg, again. The old school barracks are gone.

Not even fucking close. They're shitholes.

They're shit by today's standards. Now imagine what the AF has with today's budget.

@@EmperorSenate I've done every thing from "refurbished" WWII barracks to fairly decent barracks in Berlin, Germany. I didn't think the barracks at Fort Bragg were too bad when I was there in the late 80's...

Being in the 82nd was the gayest time of my life.

Airborne All the Way ! Now, 70 years young, Sick,Lame & Lazy, Chair borne crazy, Best years of my life ! Sgt. Mike, 20th S.F. 509th, Airborne Vicenza Italy ret. 73- 83

Don't forget the arm's distance away policing up the BN AO for cigarette butts.

Every once in a while we got to jump with them Dash-1 Bravos….yeah buddy, feet and knees together!!!

I remember those T10's served with 3rd Bn 325th Inf, 1980-1985 survived gallant Eagle 30 March 1982 R.I.P to those six troopers that died on that jump.

I was a parachute rigger with the 82nd airborne from 74-77, T10, MC1-1, packed and jumped them all, the inversion nets were just coming out too! Good old times, best jumps were out of a C7 caribou plane and a Huey copter!

@@jackdaniel7465 Was Gallant Eagle the FTX in a CA desert? I got out in Dec '81 but kept in touch with some of the guys. I was in 618th Eng Co, 307th Eng BN. There was a Sgt Moore from the 618 that got killed out there on the jump. He got knocked out at some point. I don't know if he hit the plane or had a bad landing and got knocked out. My buddy, Tony Means, said there were high winds and Sgt Moore was being drug across the desert. Tony collapsed the chute to stop the dragging. Sgt Moore was being drug belly down. Tony turned him over after collapsing the chute. Said the Sgt's face was gone. Even training can be dangerous. RIP Sgt.

@@steveedwards6753 yes it sure was, we had four drop zones..Rock, stone, gold and silver, extremely high winds that day, it was a very bad day to say the least, of course they covered it up, they also said it was "UNEXPECTED HIGH WINDS THAT CAME OUT OF THE SOUTH" but the winds were 40mph with gusts clocked up to 60mph those winds were extremely high the day before the jump as well, but because it was a very large combined arms exercise and many dignitaries along with the major news station to watch this Jump, they were not going to scrub the jump, so we troopers paid a big price for that fiasco.

was there 86 thru 89

Fury from the sky!

OH sure, you were in HQ company.

How are you doing

@@johnsonthomas9650 Im fine, thank you. and you?

Retired Army paratrooper / Infantryman 82d ABN. B-CO 2d BN 504th PIR, 20 years active service, disabled now, miss jumping, God bless USA

War with China is practically inevitable, sometime in the next 30 years or so. It’s only a matter of them feeling confident enough to invade Taiwan.

Yes the Army never put out recruitment material when its not at war

Check your re code on your dd214

I was a prior, after a 14-year break -in-service. Imagine, i had to do quite a bit of my own leg work and follow-ups until i succeeded even though, i felt like an unwanted step-child during the process. I ended up doing 8 more years in the airborne. Sometimes, it depends on how bad you want it.

Lmao… u ever been in one of those planes?

@@prdgmshft9107 ,Yes I have over 60 jumps from a variety of airplanes and helicopters . I was in the 82nd Airborne Division for a number of years and I'm a 82nd Airborne Division combat veteran. When I was speaking about the sound quality , if you look at the beginning of the video there were soldiers that were not in a plane, they were standing up or sitting down talking I could hardly hear them so why don't you pay attention to the video so you can understand exactly what's going on before you make a fool of yourself

You're welcome and we pretty much hated every single minute of it.

I’ll let you know 2/325 B’s on Ardennes are still terrible

@@taariqblackwell5134 sucks

I was there in 1966, 1967. Went back in 2017, the place looked like a modern town with townhouses.

I'm here now... get a better dream bro. Join the Air Force.

@@MrK00n why’s that

@@NCRRanger16 they live a better life

@@MrK00n would you join the army if you could do it all over again?

@@NCRRanger16 I'd join the Air Force or the Coast Guard

We’ll look into that.

@@usarmy do a day in the life of a medic where they conduct sick call and u gotta listen to all their BS reason they can’t do PT 😂

@@prdgmshft9107 Riveting material.

@@usarmy how about barracks maintenance, or area beautification, the best a day in the life of weapons maintenance?

SO awesome

....different, chutes.

@@richardcaines6389 *Oh hell, I forgot! C17. * Needed that extra length on the static line! Gah! I knew that! Thanks for the on the spot! I was in Germany and heard from friends that jumpers were bouncing off of the skin of the aircraft with the T10B. So, 2 more seconds of static line....Gahdamn I'm old! Thank you, Brother! In my day, we were 130s, 141s, 60 and 47 jumpers. Damn, I'm old!

Green ramp.

You don’t sound like a very honorable vet

@@Mr.Meerkat95 so finding someone irritating makes you dishonorable?😶😶😶

@@frank-ko6de exactly. I never could stand their constant drama.

@@Mr.Meerkat95 if 4 combat MOS’s and 18 years of service is dishonorable then so be it.

@@u.s.militia7682 I hear you.👍👍👍