WEBVTT

00:00.340 --> 00:02.396
with the nation reflecting on the 10

00:02.396 --> 00:04.451
year anniversary of september 11th .

00:04.451 --> 00:06.396
The Edwards Farm drop zone set the

00:06.396 --> 00:08.229
stage for a special U . S . Army

00:08.229 --> 00:10.340
airborne training event That was part

00:10.340 --> 00:12.396
of a 9 11 commemorative weekend . It

00:12.396 --> 00:14.451
was organized by the four 26th Civil

00:14.451 --> 00:16.118
Affairs Battalion from upland

00:16.118 --> 00:18.229
California and the Association of the

00:18.229 --> 00:20.062
United States Army Inland Empire

00:20.062 --> 00:22.173
chapter . The event honored those who

00:22.173 --> 00:24.560
are serving have served and those who

00:24.560 --> 00:26.782
have given all that was the second year

00:26.782 --> 00:29.400
in a row doing it a joint effort with

00:29.430 --> 00:32.260
Edwards Air Force Base and this year

00:32.610 --> 00:35.360
with the marines , the marines provided

00:35.360 --> 00:38.790
R . C . One thirties and Edwards the

00:38.790 --> 00:40.970
drop zone and of course we rigged up

00:40.980 --> 00:43.258
and took off from March Air Force Base .

00:43.540 --> 00:46.650
So it's a joint effort Following the

00:46.650 --> 00:48.440
proficiency jumps . Us army

00:48.440 --> 00:50.662
paratroopers were presented with german

00:50.662 --> 00:52.496
parachutist badges by lieutenant

00:52.496 --> 00:54.440
colonel chris barker of the german

00:54.440 --> 00:56.162
armed forces . After receiving

00:56.162 --> 00:58.440
instructions from a german jump master .

00:58.440 --> 01:00.384
Aside from the crowd of family and

01:00.384 --> 01:02.551
friends and attendants , World War two

01:02.551 --> 01:04.773
veterans and former army paratroopers ,

01:04.773 --> 01:06.996
retired sergeant , major robert forties

01:06.996 --> 01:08.829
and Arthur Peterson watched army

01:08.829 --> 01:10.996
paratroopers perform a training jump .

01:10.996 --> 01:13.218
They enjoyed the opportunity to convene

01:13.218 --> 01:15.273
with soldiers and remind everyone of

01:15.273 --> 01:17.440
this nation's heroic . Airborne passed

01:17.440 --> 01:19.607
to this day . Mr Peterson continues to

01:19.607 --> 01:21.660
serve us veterans of all wars . I

01:21.660 --> 01:23.660
support all veterans . I don't care

01:23.660 --> 01:25.900
where you serve , I belong to american

01:25.900 --> 01:29.020
nature , to the D . A . V . Purple

01:29.020 --> 01:32.130
Heart . Even the korean veterans I

01:32.130 --> 01:34.190
belong to the chapter I never was in

01:34.190 --> 01:37.380
Korea but they're veterans , that's all

01:37.380 --> 01:40.130
I care and for the last 16 years I've

01:40.130 --> 01:42.241
been doing work at the V . A . Clinic

01:42.241 --> 01:44.610
because I meet a lot of guys or the new

01:44.620 --> 01:47.080
kids that coming from a rock and Bill .

01:47.110 --> 01:49.620
We were honoured . We had to World War

01:49.620 --> 01:53.150
two vets from 101st and 82nd Airborne

01:53.540 --> 01:55.620
storied pasts of our paratrooper

01:55.620 --> 01:57.820
history that goes to World War Two .

01:58.080 --> 02:00.560
And these gentlemen had several combat

02:00.570 --> 02:03.480
jumps between them from the Dida

02:03.480 --> 02:06.240
invasion to Market Garden . Market

02:06.240 --> 02:08.640
Garden particularly is a relevant

02:08.640 --> 02:10.584
reminder of how dangerous airborne

02:10.584 --> 02:12.850
operations can be . After the jumps

02:12.850 --> 02:15.040
ended with troops formed up before a

02:15.040 --> 02:16.984
tribute to fallen soldiers display

02:17.030 --> 02:18.919
General Mezvinsky presided over a

02:18.919 --> 02:21.250
solemn 9 11 remembrance ceremony

02:22.040 --> 02:24.880
Between the 7th sigh up group and the

02:24.880 --> 02:28.150
three 51st . We've lost 18 soldiers in

02:28.150 --> 02:31.910
this war , a very heavy price for our

02:31.920 --> 02:35.290
respective commands , but today also

02:35.290 --> 02:38.000
patriots Day . We are paying respect to

02:38.000 --> 02:41.630
the police fireman , public first

02:41.630 --> 02:45.610
responders and all those who died that

02:45.620 --> 02:48.600
day . Jet Deborah Edwards Air Force

02:48.600 --> 02:50.060
Base , California