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U.S. paratroopers sit inside a CH-47 Chinook helicopter to participate in airborne operation during Leapfest 2015 in West Kingston, R.I., Aug. 1, 2015. The exercise is an international parachute competition hosted by the Rhode Island Army National Guard’s 56th Troop Command to promote high-level technical training and esprit de corps within the international airborne community.

U.S. paratroopers sit inside a CH-47 Chinook helicopter to participate in airborne operation during Leapfest 2015 in West Kingston, R.I., Aug. 1, 2015. The exercise is an international parachute competition hosted by the Rhode Island Army National Guard’s 56th Troop Command to promote high-level technical training and esprit de corps within the international airborne community.

U.S. paratroopers sit inside a CH-47 Chinook helicopter to participate in airborne operation during Leapfest 2015 in West Kingston, R.I., Aug. 1, 2015. The exercise is an international parachute competition hosted by the Rhode Island Army National Guard’s 56th Troop Command to promote high-level technical training and esprit de corps within the international airborne community.

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