Stand up, hook up
On this day 37 years ago:
Note the M1 helmets and woodland BDUs, the latter were still around until the mid-1980s and the former had just been introduced
14 May 1980, more than 150 female Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne participated in the first ever all-female parachute jump in the history of the U.S. Army at Fort Bragg, N.C. Not bad considering the first women jump school candidates were only selected for pre-training in 1974.
