03. Airborne Operation Photos - Fort Bragg, NC - June 14, 1984

3rd Platoon, Bravo Company, 82nd Signal Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division

Sgt DeJesus fiddles with his helmet. His ruck is on the ground next to him. He's packed it with a couple of pillows so he won't have to work too hard marching back after the jump.

The yellow telephone pole partially submerged in the ground defined the edges of the company "Formation Area". Swalley's handprints are permanently imprinted into the pole from spending so much time there in the Front Leaning Rest Position.