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US Army Silver Wings Parachute Team
From the time they depart their carrier aircraft 10,000 feet above Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport, this internationally renowned team will amaze all with their free fall and formation maneuvers.
The Silver Wings are officially the Fort Benning, Georgia, Command Exhibition Parachute Demonstration Team. Organized in 1965, the Team can trace its origins back to the inception of the Fort Benning Sport Parachute Club in 1958, which included several members of the Airborne-Air Mobility Department. In Jan 1970, the Team became the "Command Exhibition Parachute Team" and shortly afterwards gained the nicknamed the "Silver Wings".
The mission of the "Command Exhibition Parachute Team", the "Silver Wings" is to demonstrate advanced freefall techniques, while being available for research and development of start-of-the-art precision freefall techniques and equipment, and to represent the United States Army Infantry Center and Schools at both on and off post parachute demonstrations and competitions. Since the first demonstration jump on 31 Aug 1965, the "Silver Wings" have inspired countless airborne students, supported Fort Benning events with their demonstrations and have been ambassadors of the Airborne School, Ft. Benning and the Army throughout the United States and the World.