#throwbackthursday

A long, long way from northern Iran. In the airspace over North Carolina, that’s where the story of any Special Forces advisor really starts.

Note that at the time this film was made, Eye-ran was not our enemy.

North Carolina or North Iran, a jump’s a jump. The same tension as you shuffle toward the plane door, the same big lift in your chest as you see that silk billowing out above you, and the same hard meeting with Mother Earth.

And one thing more that’s the same for any Army man who comes down in a parachute, even at a tactics class, one part of our course at Fort Bragg Special Warfare School. When he lands, it may be the safe ending to a flight but his job is just beginning.

You five students know your part in this exercise. You’ve been dropped presumably into enemy-held territory but guerillas friendly to us are operating. You’re to link up with the guerrilla force in your area, train them in the tactics which we’ve been teaching you, and follow through on a bridge destruction mission with them.

My book Shooting Your Black Rifle seems appropriate to this series of films. If you would like to purchase it, click on the image below.