What do you think when you see a Soldier with Airborne wings?

What do I think? "I regret not getting Airborne in my contract."

I see a brother.

Unless accompanied by other ribbons, as to what where, when, a ticket puncher, with more balls than brains

I've had the pleasure of serving with some paratroopers and I think there is two things that stands out. One, they are way more brave than me. And two, they are way more crazier than me. I served in Berlin when the wall came down and desert storm. I was part of USCOB. I served in Frankfurt before that. I loved listening to those who actually served during combat. They are amazing, brave soldiers who risk it all to jump out of planes to slowly drift down and get shot at. They are completely nuts. They have a different way of looking at things. They used to tease me about me being chairborne. I decided to go with that. I'm fine being chairborne. I'm not jumping out of a plane. No one is shooting at me. My fear of heights is not an issue, and I live a little longer. My COL was part of them. He would have meetings with some of them in USCOB. as they walked by admin area they would yell out And How Are Our Chairborne Doing? I would just push my office chair on wheels hard enough to come out in front of them and gleefully tell them Still Living and Breathing, thank you much. I have been so lucky that every place I served, my smart ass mouth was appreciated. Never disrespectful. But I was allowed to give honest answers, and it was because most of our leaders there were from that division. They were the ones that taught me that if you find the funny, you can survive anything. One told me about serving in Korea or Vietnam and while out on patrol, he fell asleep. He woke up and he saw a squad of enemy walking past. He knew everyone was dead if he sounded alarm so he stayed still. And one of the enemy stopped in front. He swore he was seen and soon to die. But the other soldier just undid his pants and took a piss on him. And he had to just lay there and do nothing. And wear that uniform for about a week more.

Being Airborne, is some High-Speed Shit. Really, you jump out of airplanes, "Hell Yeah" cause somebody gotta do it!

Nothing, the hardest part of Airborne is getting a slot.

Air Assault SGT's loved to bust on the 82nd soldiers when they'd come to Ft. Campbell for school. 82% will not work here! We require one hundred and one percent! Air Assault!

I was in one of 3 AIRBORNE Military Police Units. We had a since of pride, accomplishment and by far the most determination to complete the task at hand. ALL THE WAY!

I think they went to airborne school. Kudos, but it doesn't make you special. Being awesome makes you special, and I'll bet airborne units have a similar ratio of heroes to dirt bags as that of a regular unit.

Someone with commitment and no fear of height.