Each week of Airborne School raises the elevation. Students begin with Ground Week, then face the 34-foot and 250-foot towers during Tower Week. The training ultimately prepares them for Jump Week ...

Mr. Luke Keating, the 1-507th PIR Doctrine Writer said, “The 250-foot towers have been used since the inception of Airborne School and the test platoon. In 1940, the War Department saw the ...

Pezdirtz has graduated from the three-week airborne ... foot tower, practical use of the swing landing trainer, suspended harness apparatus, mock door mass exiting procedures, and the 250-foot ...

Fort Benning’s 30th annual 250-foot Airborne Tower Lighting Celebration will take place but the celebration will not be open to the public due to COVID-19. The lighting celebration is set for 5: ...

according to the Army Airborne School Web site. In the second week, students reinforce what they learn from the first week before practicing parachute jumps from a 250-foot tower. In the final ...

Getting dirty in Airborne school meant walking away from a four ... where he was first hoisted on a cable to the top of a 250-foot jump tower that erupts above the Georgia pines near the Ranger ...

There's only one way up, and there's only one way down." JCLC is currently taking place from June 9 to 14, with over 310 cadets in attendance. The zip line tower at Airborne School is 34 feet high.