| For the paratroop role, the aircraft is equipped with door-jump platforms and static lines, and can carry up to 24 fully equipped paratroops. |
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| Nevertheless, Bedouins have served in paratroop units and other Arabs have volunteered for military duty. |
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| Bernadette was addressing the crowds in Derry on 31 January 1972 when the British army's paratroop regiment opened fire on protesters. |
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| Staff of 2nd Czechoslovak paratroop unit moved from Banská Bystrica to mountains. |
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| Holten Canadian War Cemetery is northeast of Arnhem, the site of a disastrous British paratroop attack. |
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| In the British sector elements of the 21st Panzer Division attack the reduced paratroop battalion. |
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| Beginning of 2nd paratroop unit in Soviet Union transport from Kroscienk to insurgent territory. |
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| Armored vehicles, paratroop units and snipers sealed off Kabul's streets during this week's conference. |
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| It can carry 116 fully equipped paratroops, who can jump two at a time from the ramp or through the paratroop side doors. |
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| The two were taking part in a paratroop exercise from a Hercules aircraft. |
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| He paused at a group of South African veterans whose red berets marked them as part of the paratroop regiment, closely affiliated to the British paratroopers of which Charles is a patron. |
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| Army units were supposed to form separate units by order of particular commanders, 2nd Czechoslovak paratroop unit should form partisan groups on south and north parts of Praivá mountain. |
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| In 1979, he graduated officers' school, and went on to serve as a paratroop company commander and platoon commander. |
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| After meeting of partisan headquarter and Colonel V. Pøikryl it was decided to submit 2nd Czechoslovak paratroop unit to partisan headquarter commanded by A. N. Asmolov. |
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| Later, on 4 November, the programme reached another milestone when Grizzly Three preformed a first paratroop launch, near Toulouse. |
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| In comparison with freight versions of commercial aircraft, military transporters have special features such as short-takeoff-and-landing capability, loading ramps, airdrop capability, and paratroop doors. |
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| He then joined the paratroop corps and, so the story goes, was so traumatised when he saw a fellow soldier killed as he was about to jump, that he refused to fly again after the war. |
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| At 1140 hours the Commanding Officer held a meeting of all 143 Airfield and announced the Invasion would get under way with a paratroop landing at 0300 hours tomorrow morning. |
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| We also have a 12-man army paratroop team that are trained to go with this, so they can provide assistance on the ground, survival techniques, and our SAR techs, of course, who have medical capability. |
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| Weapons collected at the airport after the rebels were forced out by airstrikes and a paratroop assault had been brought in from Russia, he said. |
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| The lads selected for the 1950s-style paratroop training are the lippiest and baddest bunch with thieves, vandals, fraudsters and ASBOs in their midst. |
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| He was transferred to the Paratroop regiment and received infantry training just before war broke out. |
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| At the same time, Colonel Sharon's 202nd Paratroop Brigade raced out towards the Mitla Pass. |
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| Members of elite Paratroop Regiments have been told to fill in a form giving personal details about partners, ex-girlfriends and Facebook pages before they go to war. |
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