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U.S. Army Cadet Bernard Wheeler, right, and U.S. Army Pvt. Daniel Shirer, both students with the U.S. Army Airborne School, board a C-130 aircraft for their first parachute jump with combat equipment on Fort Benning, Ga., July 21, 2009. Wheeler and Shirer are assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment.

FIRST JUMP

U.S. Army Cadet Bernard Wheeler, right, and U.S. Army Pvt. Daniel Shirer, both students with the U.S. Army Airborne School, board a C-130 aircraft for their first parachute jump with combat equipment on Fort Benning, Ga., July 21, 2009. Wheeler and Shirer are assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment.

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