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U.S. Army Airborne School students are loaded into a C-130 aircraft for their third parachute jump, and first jump with combat equipment, on Fort Benning, Ga., July 21, 2009.

U.S. Army Airborne School students are loaded into a C-130 aircraft for their third parachute jump, and first jump with combat equipment, on Fort Benning, Ga., July 21, 2009.

U.S. Army Airborne School students are loaded into a C-130 aircraft for their third parachute jump, and first jump with combat equipment, on Fort Benning, Ga., July 21, 2009.

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