The Maneuver Center of Excellence and Fort Benning celebrates National Airborne Day with a parachute jump demonstration Aug. 14, 2026, at Fort Benning, Georgia. Fort Benning is the birthplace of the Airborne. Former President George W. Bush proclaimed Aug. 16, 2001, as the first National Airborne Day to commemorate the first official Army parachute jump, which took place on Aug. 16, 1940.
The H2F Journal is a production of the United States Army Holistic Health and
Fitness (H2F) Directorate, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, a component of
the United States Army Maneuver Center of Excellence.
