“I can’t explain what it feels like when you leave the plane,” he said. “The first thing you notice is the silence. You leave the noise of the aircraft and the sound of the air rushing by and jump into silence.”
Carter is a former security forces Airman from San Diego, who now serves as a protocol specialist at the Academy.
He was one of only a handful of permanent party service members to take advantage of the Academy’s summer session opportunity to sign up for Airmanship 490, a course that teaches cadets how to safely parachute.
But Carter didn’t jump out of a plane right away. First, he completed nearly 40 hours of ground training, where he learned the ins and outs of parachuting – everything from when to...
08.14.2018 | U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY , CO, US |
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