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  • HAHO/Definition
    ...|Parachuting]] from High Altitude, opening a [[parasail]] or controllable parachute at High Altitude and steering to the [[drop zone]]
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  • Airborne (disambiguation)
    * Qualified for military operations using [[parachute]]s. * The Parachute Regiment (UK).
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  • Drop zone/Definition
    The area on which military personnel or equipment, dropped by parachute, are expected to land
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  • Smoke jumper/Definition
    ...y trained to deploy to very remote fires by jumping from airplanes using a parachute
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  • Caterpillar Club/Definition
    An informal association whose members have successfully used a parachute to bail out of a disabled aircraft.
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  • Tactical airlift/Definition
    ...y)]] that delivers cargoes to forward airbases, possibly under fire, or by parachute into areas where no bases exist
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  • HALO/Definition
    ...[skydiving]]") to control one's descent, and Low [altitude] opening of the parachute
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  • Humanitarian daily ration/Definition
    ...cultural acceptability, low cost, and ability to be air-dropped without a parachute; a way to get food quickly into isolated areas of famine
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  • Caterpillar Club/Citable Version
    ...r.jpg|thumb|right|A pin from another company, possibly Switlik or Standard Parachute. This style is common in catalogs and auctions of military memorabilia.]] ...arachute]] to bail out of a disabled aircraft. After authentication by the parachute maker, applicants receive a membership certificate and a distinctive lapel
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  • Caterpillar Club
    ...r.jpg|thumb|right|A pin from another company, possibly Switlik or Standard Parachute. This style is common in catalogs and auctions of military memorabilia.]] ...arachute]] to bail out of a disabled aircraft. After authentication by the parachute maker, applicants receive a membership certificate and a distinctive lapel
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  • Caterpillar Club/External Links
    *[http://www.switlik.com/ Switlik Parachute Company]
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  • Paratroop
    ...ied to infantry soldiers or units, trained and equipped to enter combat by parachute|parachuting from aircraft. The nature of such operations requires a high de ...rms for such soldiers and units include airborne infantry, jump-qualified, parachute infantry, amd a wide range of national, local, and informal designations. W
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  • 75th Ranger Regiment/Definition
    ...d]] of the [[United States Special Operations Command]], a highly skilled, parachute-qualified light infantry unit that conducts raids in uniform (e.g., seizing
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  • Caterpillar Club/Related Articles
    {{r|Parachute}}
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  • Parachute
    A '''parachute''' is a system of an air-capturing canopy attached to a body or other objec
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  • Elinor Smith/Related Articles
    {{r|Parachute}}
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  • Paratroop/Related Articles
    {{r|Parachute}} {{r|The Parachute Regiment (U.K)}}
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  • Bionics/Related Articles
    {{r|Parachute}}
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  • Fixed-wing aircraft/Related Articles
    {{r|Parachute}}
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  • Journalism/Related Articles
    * [[Parachute journalism]]
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  • Smoke jumper
    A '''smoke jumper''' is a firefighter who is also given [[parachute]] training.<ref name=Usaf2015-09-21/> Smoke jumpers are dropped in remote ...ied smoke jumper pilot, flying firefighters into wildland areas where they parachute in to combat forest fires.
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  • Firefighter
    ...by [[smoke jumper]]s - lightly equipped firefighters who are dropped by [[parachute]] so they can access and get ahead of fires so remote they can not be reach
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  • Retrorocket
    ...been used to brake the landing of an airdropped object, with and without [[parachute]]s.
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  • Special Air Service/Related Articles
    {{r|The Parachute Regiment}}
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  • Operation JUNCTION CITY
    It involved the only large-unit parachute jump of the war, by elements of the 173rd Airborne Brigade.
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  • Beggars Banquet/Related Articles
    {{r|Parachute Woman}}
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  • Victor Krulak
    ...ommander in China. During WWII, he qualified as a parachutist, commanded a parachute battalion, and made a diversionary landing at Choiseul Island, his raid co
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  • MSQ-77
    ...kness, in situations including attacks on supply lines, close air support, parachute delivery of supplies and personnel, and combat search and rescue. It could
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  • Howitzer
    ...s where weight is critical, such as when the howitzer must be delivered by parachute, amphibious landing vehicle, or helicopter. ...zers are still used, especially by light forces delivered by helicopter or parachute. They have rifled barrels, a recoil mechanism, and can have their vertical
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  • Judy Barden
    ...Barden and Tighe were turned down, being told that the jolt of the opening parachute could damage their reproductive organs. ...hower’s press aide informed them that {{'}}the sharp jolt of the exploding parachute canopy’ could damage their {{’}}{{’}}delicate female apparatus,{{’}
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  • Beggars Banquet
    #'Parachute Woman' (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) - 2:17
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  • Infantry fighting vehicle
    *An IFV is not intended to be dropped by parachute or carried by helicopters, although it can be flown in medium and larger fi
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  • Operation Market Garden
    ..."Market Garden" reflected two major sub-operations: Market was the actual parachute and glider landings by the three divisions (British 1st Airborne Division,
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  • Ryan Firebee
    ...e version were hit by a "friendly" missile and disabled, it would deploy a parachute and land gently. ...with the new Mid-Air Retrieval System, which used a helicopter to grab the parachute cable in mid-air. While this had an [[IMINT]] mission, the potential of hi
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  • Commando Order
    ...her they come into action from Ships and Aircraft, or whether they land by parachute. Even if these individuals on discovery make obvious their intention of giv ...to those enemy soldiers who, after air battle, seek to save their lives by parachute.
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  • Marine Special Operations Command
    ...Marine special operations units, principally Raider battalions but also a parachute battalion, were created, but never were greeted enthusiastically by the cha In the Second World War, the Marines organized the 1st Parachute Battalion, and even scaled up to regiment sized. The staff decided, however
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  • Evidence-based medicine/External Links
    * Smith GCS, Pell JP (2003) Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: s
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  • Humanitarian daily ration
    The meals are designed to be able to survive being air-dropped, without a parachute.<ref name=DcsaHumanitarianDailyRations>
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  • Dixie Tighe
    ...d permission to accompany paratroopers, on D-Day, being told the jolt of a parachute could ''"damage their {{’}}{{’}}delicate female apparatus,{{’}}{{’} ...hower’s press aide informed them that {{'}}the sharp jolt of the exploding parachute canopy’ could damage their {{’}}{{’}}delicate female apparatus,{{’}
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  • Grenada invasion (U.S.A., 1983)
    ...into Grenada during Operation Urgent Fury.jpg|right|350px|US Army Rangers parachute into Grenada during Operation Urgent Fury, Oct. 25, 1983.}}
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  • Jean Lartéguy
    ...horrors of France's unsuccessful colonial wars and of the kind of men the parachute officers became-- tough and resourceful soldiers convinced that only they k ...y suggests that "the 13th of May" was engineered by a group of disgruntled parachute officers who had no intention of restoring De Gaulle, whom they disliked an
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  • Guadalcanal campaign/External Links
    | title = SILK CHUTES AND HARD FIGHTING: US. Marine Corps Parachute Units in World War II
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  • Genesis probe
    ...4, 2004, landing in the [[Utah (U.S. state)|Utah]] desert, when its drogue parachute and parafoil did not deploy. Investigations into the deployment failure fou
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  • United States Navy SEAL
    ...]]. The name is an acronym for "sea, air, land"; they are also [[paratroop|parachute-qualified]] successors of the [[Underwater Demolition Team]]s, or "frogmen" ...nit tactics, demolitions, cold weather training, medical skills, SERE, and parachute training. Those who graduate from SQT receive the ultimate of all U.S.
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  • Kathryn Lance/Works
    *''Invisibility Island'', Parachute Press, NYC, 1988
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  • Ranger School
    ...alk" is in mountainous terrain at Camp Merrill; most of the entries are by parachute jump. "Run" moves to jungle at Camp Rudder at [[Eglin Air Force Base]], [[F
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  • Division (military)
    Several of the major powers in the Second World War organized parachute infantry divisions, also called paratroop|airborne or paratroop. Given the
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  • Viking 1
    ...econds after that the three lander legs were extended. In 45 seconds the [[parachute]] had slowed the lander to 60 m/s. At 1.5 km altitude, retro-rockets were i
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  • Battle of Sicily
    ...American. The American [[paratroopers]] consisted largely of the [[505th Parachute Infantry Regiment]] of the [[82nd Airborne Division (United States)|82nd Ai ...rne were supposed to have been. On [[11 July]], Patton ordered his reserve parachute regiments to drop and reinforce the center. Not every unit had been informe
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  • Offensive counter-air
    ...ade [[BLU-107 Durandal]] munition, after drop, slows and stabilizes with a parachute, and then fires a rocket to drive the warhead through and under the runway
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  • Apollo Command-Service Module
    ...consists of three main [[parachute]]s, three pilot parachutes, two drogue parachute motors, three upright bags, a sea recovery cable, a dye marker, and a swimm ...th at least two parachutes (as it happened on [[Apollo 15]]), as the third parachute acted as a safety precaution.
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  • Infantry
    *'''[[paratroop]]ers''': parachute into the battle area or very near it
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  • Mark 8x series conventional bomb
    ...aking. More recently, a soft device called a "ballute", for "balloon" and "parachute", also brakes the bomb.
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  • Explosive ordnance disposal
    ...er broke apart in flight, one [[Mark 39 (nuclear weapon)| Mark 39]] bomb's parachute worked and it landed with minimal damage. While the issue remains controver
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  • Elinor Smith
    ...Ohio (U.S. state)|Ohio]], she was the pilot for an unprecedented seven-man parachute drop.<ref name=Moses />
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  • Unit 731
    ...ents. Plague was also delivered by rats in porcelain containers dropped by parachute.
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  • Paisley
    ...ical post in the west end of the town. The bomb killed 92 people. A second parachute mine fell on Newton Street killing two firemen.
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  • Explosively formed projectile
    As the BLU-108 approaches the target area, it releases a parachute and fires a small rocket to spin the container. Four Skeets are released at
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  • Operation Rankin
    ...irborne Division (UK)]], [[Special Air Service]], (with SAS and 1st Polish Parachute Brigade): Tegel and Oranienberg
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  • Battle of Dien Bien Phu
    *6th BCP (Colonial Parachute Battalion), commanded by Major [[Marcel Bigeard]], 651 men *II/1 RCP (2nd Battalion, 1st Regiment of Parachute Light Infantry), Major Jean Bréchignac, 569 men
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  • The Troubles (Ireland)/Timelines
    ...le at a civil rights march in Londonderry, soldiers of the 1st Battalion [[Parachute Regiment]] of the British Army open fire and kill 13 civilians (a further c
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  • Philippines counteroffensive
    ...wed, one to cut off the [[Bataan Peninsula]], and another, that included a parachute drop, south of Manila. Pincers closed on the city and, on 3 February 1945,
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  • Signals intelligence from 1980 to 1989
    ...k on the same day killed 58 French paratroopers of 3rd Company of the 6th Parachute Infantry Regiment. SIGINT teams were attached to the Marine force there. Un
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  • The Pretty Things
    ...diverse work was named Record of the Year by ''Rolling Stone''. Sales of ''Parachute'' did not meet expectations, and the band's fortunes seemed to be at a low
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  • Addiction
    ...r of jumping out of an airplane is rewarded with intense pleasure when the parachute opens. Because of opponent process, criminal behaviour, running, stealing,
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  • Romantic love
    ...parachutes are on the BACK not the front so only your lover can open your parachute for you, and you for your lover. You pause. Are you ready to jump? Will you
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  • Battle of Ap Bac
    ...e of South Force to move. Second, failure of the APC's to move. Third, the parachute force. They were dropped on the wrong side of the river. It was a decision
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  • Cargo cult
    In attempts to get cargo to fall by [[parachute]] or land in planes or [[ship]]s again, islanders imitated the same practic
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  • Atmospheric lapse rate
    ...drop these mini-weather stations from an airplane at high altitude with a parachute attached. This type of measuring device is called a [[dropsonde]].
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  • Technical intelligence
    ...or the first wave, a radar technician, C.W.H. Cox, volunteered to go in by parachute, and did the actual disassembly.<ref> Jones, pp. 233-249 </ref>
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  • Venus (planet)
    ...er than Venera 4's designers had anticipated, and its slower than intended parachute descent meant that its batteries ran down before the probe reached the surf ...rapid 35-minute descent. Entering the atmosphere on 15 December 1970, the parachute is believed to have partially torn during the descent, and the probe struck
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  • Project Mercury
    ...from a defective launch vehicle. The spacecraft would then descend on its parachute recovery system. After booster engine cutoff (BECO), the LES was no longer
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  • Home Guard
    ...rfare being encountered on the continent and in particular the threat from parachute troops which the Germans had dropped far behind the front lines.
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  • Roy Marlin Voris
    ...cked out of the sky. I didn't bail out&mdash;they'll shoot you out of your parachute and if you go into the water the sharks will eat you. I was full of shrapne
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  • Third Indochina War
    but the PAVN did resupply its units by parachute drop. There appeared to be no Chinese equivalent to the elite PAVN sappers.
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  • United States Marine Corps
    ...Marine special operations units, principally Raider battalions but also a parachute battalion, were created, but never were greeted enthusiastically by the cha
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  • English spellings/Catalogs/B
    '''bâil''' ''law, cricket'' = '''bâle''' ''hay, parachute''
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  • Indochina and the Second World War
    By parachute landing, the French took control of Hoa Binh, capital of the Moang tribe an Operation "Lea", launched in October, started with a parachute assault that found Ho's mail still on his desk, but the French never same s
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  • Evidence-based medicine/Bibliography
    {{cite journal |author=Smith GC, Pell JP |title=Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: s
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  • Signals intelligence at the start of the Cold War
    ...Q-2A Firebee, the jet-propelled UAV, launched by a rocket and recovered by parachute, was also bought by the Navy and Army.
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  • Battle of Khe Sanh
    ...f the cargo bay of a low-flying transport aircraft by means of an attached parachute. The pallet slid to a halt on the airstrip while the aircraft never had to
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  • National Security Agency
    ...Q-2A Firebee, the jet-propelled UAV, launched by a rocket and recovered by parachute, was also bought by the Navy and Army. ...with the new Mid-Air Retrieval System, which used a helicopter to grab the parachute cable in mid-air. While this had an [[IMINT]] mission, the potential of hi
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  • Indochinese revolution
    ...[[Yen Bai Province]]. The French garrison, reinforced by three airdropped parachute battalion and close air support, drove off the Viet Minh 312th Division. Al After another parachute landing and link-up with tanks, in early November, French forces found, at
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  • Signals intelligence from 1954 to 1979
    ...with the new Mid-Air Retrieval System, which used a helicopter to grab the parachute cable in mid-air. While this had an [[IMINT]] mission, the potential of hi ...bombing that also killed 58 French paratroopers of 3rd Company of the 6th Parachute Infantry Regiment.
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  • Electronic warfare
    ...LARM will strike a radar if one is active, but, otherwise, it dangles on a parachute over the battlefield, daring a radar to show itself. Either approach denies
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  • Battle of the Ia Drang
    ...Plei Me, bypassing the 23nd regiment. U.S. aircraft supplied Plei Me with parachute-dropped supplies.
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  • Human flight, history (1919-1938)
    ...an open-cockpit biplane! Also, Lt. Macready accomplished the first night parachute jump, in 1924. It’s also reported that Macready made the first aerial pho
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  • Vietnam War ground technology
    ...the "Acoubuoy" (36 inches long, 26 pounds)... floated down by camouflaged parachute and caught in the trees, where it hung to listen. The Spikebuoy (66 inches
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  • Guadalcanal campaign
    ...ops to Vandegrift's original 11,000 men defending Henderson Field. The 1st Parachute battalion, which had suffered heavy casualties in the Battle of Tulagi and
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  • Evidence-based medicine/Citable Version
    ...).<ref name="pmid14684649">{{cite journal |author=Smith GC, Pell JP |title=Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: s
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  • World War Two in the Pacific
    ...wed, one to cut off the [[Bataan Peninsula]], and another, that included a parachute drop, south of Manila. Pincers closed on the city and, on 3 February 1945,
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  • French words in English/Catalogs
    ...ping channel, or passage down or through which things may pass; a slide; a parachute; a spinnaker'' |parachute
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  • Evidence-based medicine
    ...).<ref name="pmid14684649">{{cite journal |author=Smith GC, Pell JP |title=Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: s
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  • Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
    ...rized. The crew member would then free fall to 15,000 feet before the main parachute was opened allowing the high heat rise to bleed off as the crew member slow
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  • Iraq War, major combat phase
    ...ssignment to the Rangers, who did not have a clear mission. Rangers made a parachute jump and seized the H-1 airfield on March 27. A tank company was then airl
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  • Neil Armstrong
    ...ly (later analysis suggested that if he had ejected 0.5 seconds later, his parachute would not have opened in time). His only injury was from biting his tongue.
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  • Geophysical MASINT
    ...included "Acoubuoy (36 inches long, 26 pounds) floated down by camouflaged parachute and caught in the trees, where it hung to listen. The Spikebuoy (66 inches
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  • U.S. intelligence activities in Asia-Pacific
    ...in October 1958 and who was assigned to support neutralist Capt. Kong Le's parachute battalion, a Laotian officer who would rise to the highest ranks.<ref name=
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