US paratroopers are some of the most daring members of the US military.
After completing US Army Airborne School, or Jump School, these volunteers are certified to conduct some of the most dangerous missions in the military.
We have compiled some of our favorite images of US Army paratroopers below.
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Paratroopers with 1st Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division (Advise and Assist), exit a C-130 aircraft on February 12 at Al Asad Airbase, Iraq, as part of the largest airborne-training exercise conducted by US forces in Iraq since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team and Afghan National Army soldiers with 6th Kandak, 203rd Corps, travel aboard a CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopter during an air-assault mission May 4, 2012, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan.
Paratroopers jump from a C-17 Globemaster III over Malamute Drop Zone, Tuesday, June 4, 2013.
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