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173rd Airborne Paratrooper Parachutes from C-130 Hercules

Remember the days when you used to jump out of airplanes? Never jumped out of an airplane? Well, this is your chance to ride along via helmet camera with Staff Sgt. Travis Surber, a paratrooper with the 173rd Brigade Combat Team’s Battle Company of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment as he parachutes out of a perfectly good C-130 Hercules and into the Ukraine sky as part of Rapid Trident 2011. Rapid Trident 2011 is a U.S. Army Europe led, multi-national exercise taking place at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv, Ukraine.

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