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Still, according to doctrine, any aerial means of delivery is considered an Airborne Operation. Since we had this discussion a few months ago I'll make an on the spot correction. Techinically you are correct since under joint doctrine any means of aerial delivery is considered Airborne. But since the demise of gliders as a way of delivering troops and supplies, under Army doctrine Airborne means Paratroopers. Not trying to bust you since it sounds like you have the spirit and attitude to be a Paratrooper. Now get your packet in and get to BAC. HOOAH?
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| Big Al, You had to remind me about the 81 mortars!  I have never told you, but I had the "pleasure" of being in the heavy weapons company 81 mortar platoon. Jumping was not as bad as carrying the 81 and the ammo up the hills in Korea. On the other hand, it was not so bad after all, as the casualties in our company were much smaller than in a rifle company. Concerning the auto license plates: I don't think that our Sate legislature would be willing to create another military license plate with both the Airborne Wings and the CIB.
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Oggie, get a small CIB decal and stick it on the license plate in a spot that doesn't cover up any of the numbers or required info. Problem solved.
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2 entries found for paratrooper.begin ahd4 google_ad_region_start=def
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Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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end ahd4 begin wn google_ad_region_start=def paratrooper n : a soldier in the paratroops [syn: para] Usage Frequency: Paratrooper| "Paratrooper" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Paratrooper" is used about 28 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
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100 Million Words | Rank in English | | Noun (singular) | 100% | 28 | 65,706 |
Frequency of Internet Keywords: ParatrooperThe following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
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Top Modern Translations: ParatrooperInsert Trans Disclaimer| Language | | Translations for "paratrooper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | Albanian | | ushtar parashutist. (various references) | | | | | Arabic  | | جندي المظلات, المظلي (parachutist). (various references) | | | | | Bulgarian | | парашутист (parachutist). (various references) | | | | | Chinese | | 伞兵. (various references) | | | | | Czech | | parašutista (parachutist), výsadkář (parachute jumper, parachutist). (various references) | | | | | Farsi | | سربازچترباز. (various references) | | | | | French | | parachutiste (parachutist, parachutists). (various references) | | | | | German | | fallschirmjäger (paras, paratroopers, paratroops). (various references) | | | | | Greek | | αλεξιπτωτιστήσ (parachute jumper, parachutist). (various references) | | | | | Hebrew | | צנחן (parachuter, parachutist). (various references) | | | | | Hungarian | | ejtőernyős (parachutist). (various references) | | | | | Italian | | paracadutista militare, parà (para). (various references) | | | | | Korean | | 낙하산병 (parachutist). (various references) | | | | | Pig Latin | | aratrooperpay.(various references) | | | | | Portuguese | | parataxe. (various references) | | | | | Romanian | | paraşutist (jumper, parachute jumper, parachutist, skyman). (various references) | | | | | Russian | | парашютист-десантник. (various references) | | | | | Serbo-Croatian | | padobranac (parachute jumper, parachutist). (various references) | | | | | Spanish | | paracaidista (parachutist, paratroop, sky diver). (various references) | | | | | Swedish | | fallskärmsjägare (parachute jumper, parachutist). (various references) | | | | | Turkish | | paraşütçü asker (para). (various references) | | | | | Ukranian | | парашутист (parachuter, parachutist). (various references) | | | | | Vietnamese | | lính nhảy dù. (various references) |
Alternative Orthography: Paratrooper
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Thanks for all the input. Though some of you seem to think otherwise, I really do not take it as seriously as I may have come across yesterday.
We have a few Soldiers from the 82nd and 75th RGR in my company. They are for the most part high speed-low drag Soldiers who know their job well. Still, they realize that they will never jump as a member of the Old Guard and so, wear their wings with quiet pride, letting the right shoulder differentiate between them and the cherries.
I do not base my respect for people based on number of jumps, schools, or badges. I have known NCO's with Master Jump Wings and Ranger tabs, as well as nearly every other relatively common Infantry badge, that have not been worth the rank on their collar. I have also seen some with only CIB/EIB who I would trust to lead me anywhere. One of my fellow E-5's came from 505th PIR earlier this year. His two years spent at Bragg were passed by preparing to deploy or deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Needless to say, he has nine jumps, including those five in school. He doesn't care as he knows he served in a good unit. Whenever somebody points it out I am the first to take up for him. After all, this NCO spent a year total in two different hellholes. He never got the time to worry about filling his jump log.
I will be sure to fill everyone in on my adventure in assembling a packet. So far, I have succeeded in holding off the inevitable PLDC but have been informed I am next on the list. Also, being an Equal Opportunity Leg, I volunteered to take SOG duty over from a former 505th SGT whose wife is expectant at any time (not the one mentioned above). So, while I could be shamming and getting a physical during EIB, I will instead be guarding ammo. Yay! We will be going into Arlington for a few months of funeral missions after that. Hopefully, I can get a packet together this winter. If not, I may have to wait until spring.
Essentially, we in the Old Guard are all in this elite unit together, for better or worse. FNG cherries call another FNG a leg, seasoned three-year cherries call them cherries, and I point out that I am surrounded by cherries. Which leads to the seasoned cherries calling me a leg. It's all one big happy family until those FNG's think they can talk like we are buddies. That's when Big Bubba breaks out the full battle rattle front/back/go..
Diabolical laughing ensues.
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