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paratrooper

[ par-uh-troo-per ]

noun

  1. a member of a military infantry unit trained to attack or land in combat areas by parachuting from airplanes.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of paratrooper1

First recorded in 1940–45; para- 3 + trooper
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At his funeral service on Saturday, friends, families and uniformed members of the military danced and sang to honor Harris, believed to be oldest paratrooper veteran when he died March 15.

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The now 64-year-old former British paratrooper, who once hawked T-shirts on Venice Beach, was searching for a follow-up show that would be less physically grueling than his CBS hit, “Survivor.”

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He fled Afghanistan with his parents amid the US withdrawal in August 2021 and is now a paratrooper for the US military.

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Rhodes, a former US Army paratrooper and Yale-educated lawyer, led the Oath Keepers to Washington in the days before a riot.

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Rhodes, a former US Army paratrooper and Yale-educated lawyer, had been charged for leading a contingent of his Oath Keepers members to Washington.

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