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Thus, President Dwight D. Eisenhower dispatched 1,000 U.S. Army paratroopers to Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957 to enforce desegregation at Central High School mandated by Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
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Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 3 Mar. 2025
Hausmann-Stokes would know: the filmmaker is an Army paratrooper who received a bronze star while serving in Iraq in 2007.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 28 Feb. 2025
It was attached to a jeep trailer that was dropped from an airplane, along with U.S. paratroopers training near her home in Okinawa.
—Martin Fackler, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
The post was light on details but said that paratroopers of Ukraine's 82nd Air Assault Brigade had successfully conducted offensive actions in Kursk in coordination with support units, combat and logistical forces.
—Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
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Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 3 Mar. 2025
Hausmann-Stokes would know: the filmmaker is an Army paratrooper who received a bronze star while serving in Iraq in 2007.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 28 Feb. 2025
It was attached to a jeep trailer that was dropped from an airplane, along with U.S. paratroopers training near her home in Okinawa.
—Martin Fackler, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
The post was light on details but said that paratroopers of Ukraine's 82nd Air Assault Brigade had successfully conducted offensive actions in Kursk in coordination with support units, combat and logistical forces.
—Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
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“Paratrooper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paratrooper. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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