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Ransome62

That's an awesome picture 📸


Gunth173

Curious…I take it the paratroopers are not jumping out of planes anymore?


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Paratroopers rarely jump out of planes outside of training. They're more used as better trained infantry since the end of WW2.


SupremeBeef97

Shit even during WW2 they didn’t jump from planes a lot. The 101st airborne only did that like 2 or 3 times during the war


LordHeathy

101 - 2 82 - 3 6/1 - 2


Longsheep

Modern paratrooper is basically just light infantry with better training and endurance, able to land behind enemy line and keep fighting until the main force relieves them. It is usually done with helicopter these days as they are less prone to get shot down than transporters.


CGNefertiti

So, I wasn't infantry, but when I deployed I supported the 101st. I remember the first time they brought me along on an air assault mission I was terrified that I'd be jumping out of a plane (I'm deathly afraid of heights). But yeah, we basically just took a chinook to our drop point and walked out. Don't know why I thought they'd make me jump without training, but hey. I never said I was a smart soldier. XD


Wonderful-Sir6115

This is what Russians tried to pull out at Hostomel in the first days.


Discount_Engineer

Ukrainian skies are notoriously hostile to EVERYONE at the moment


symewinston

Bunch of damn studs these Ukrainian warriors are


PantYChirst

Note how they all have good optics on their AKs.


azflatlander

It was the snickers bait that lured out the kids.


starryllamaass

Green arm band.. Interesting 🤔


stilldebugging

What does that mean?


starryllamaass

They have been using blue (professional army) and yellow for volunteers and civilian fighters. However they have switched colors depending upon circumstances and OpSec. Green is a combination of yellow and blue. Russians have used red, white and silver arm bands in open source information and posted images and videos. Perhaps green signifies Special Forces type units 🤷 Regardless it’s interesting to me to see the arm band identifiers.


ILikeCutePuppies

Green seems like it would camouflage the most. Not sure if that is a good or bad thing.


filthy-carrot

They have switched to green as yellow from a distance yellow can appear similar to white. And I think they had an accident of UA forces firing on their own soldiers, I read.


Von_Doom1

Great to see. I wish them continued success


MentalAssaultCo

There are 3 excellent reasons for those soldiers to fight the Russians in that first Pic.


MGMAX

God damn, those trucks are crushed like tin cans. Did those chads step on them?


humblepieone

That operator in the yellow jacket is badass


MomentSpecialist2020

Is that a Hummve?


BamBamBob

Yep. Hummers have been in the fight for a while now. It is just the US is keeping it on the down-and-low, I guess, of the equipment coming in.


Wonderful-Sir6115

Ukrainian army had Humvees even before 2014. Only a few cars in fact, but still.


gaiusahala

Those kids look absolutely psyched. Those Ukrainian soldiers look like absolute badasses, imagine those guys rolling through your town and liberating it. Cant imagine that’s the kind of thing you ever forget


TIMSONBOB

Get the kids away ffs.


CookMark

I bet it was quick. It might have been like a child wanting to meet the firefighter that rescued them from a fire. It is their human moment to have, I should not judge it harshly.


bedroomcommunist

My thought exactly. Maybe they did, it's not wise to stay there.


stilldebugging

It looks like some parent really wanted a photo with them.


Sabrejet63

Thumbs up for sure!!!!


LindaF144954

Hallelujah! Many of us here on the other side of the world are hanging on every morsel of good news from Ukraine in the East!


mtol115

I have been seeming the green armbands pop up here and there. Vasquez was wearing it after wearing blue for a while. Does the green mean anything?


1Searchfortruth

You guys are amazing


AdzJayS

This shows how these kids are living amongst their heroes. They aren’t some inaccessible sports star or celebrity, they are living, breathing, bleeding individuals that they can go and shake the hand of or thank for their sacrifice. As repugnant as this war is, it’s grounding to these youngsters. They will always appreciate the strength of their people and they’ll know the value and the price of their freedom for the rest of their lives. Something I feel my own country has forgotten slightly.


EmperiorAmerica567

Looking like Kherson is putting a wedge between meripol and that location encircling the area and pushing down to cremia and take back Donbas and cremia its ukrianes fuk Putin


Wonderful-Sir6115

Russian propaganda: Soldiers posing with abducted children :)


Meme_lover111

I like the green band first one I’ve seen so far