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So, people who’ve traveled really fast.

  1. Dale Earnhardt
  2. Neil Armstrong
  3. Mario Andretti
  4. Usain Bolt
  5. Chuck Yeager
  6. Charles Lindbergh
  7. Craig Breedlove
  8. Roger Bannister
  9. Andy Green
  10. Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochran)
  11. Burt Munro

Portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in the excellent movie, The World’s Fastest Indian.

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So, people who’ve traveled really fast.

  1. Dale Earnhardt
  2. Neil Armstrong
  3. Mario Andretti
  4. Usain Bolt
  5. Chuck Yeager
  6. Charles Lindbergh
  7. Craig Breedlove
  8. Roger Bannister
  9. Andy Green
  10. Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochran)
  11. Burt Munro
  12. Barry Allen (the Flash)
67470

The series was titled Delta House. And they cast Stephen Furst (Flounder), Bruce McGill (D-Day), and James Widdoes (Hoover) in addition to Vernon.

Favorite Animal House trivia: They offered Donald Sutherland the choice of $50,000 up front or two percent of the movie’s gross. Sutherland took the sure thing. He’s since said that decision cost him fourteen million dollars.

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So, people who’ve traveled really fast.

  1. Dale Earnhardt
  2. Neil Armstrong
  3. Mario Andretti
  4. Usain Bolt
  5. Chuck Yeager
  6. Charles Lindbergh
  7. Craig Breedlove
  8. Roger Bannister
  9. Andy Green
  10. Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochran)
  11. Burt Munro
  12. Barry Allen (the Flash)
  13. Dick Trickle
    Next: August 16th was National Airborne Day, list of Airborne units past and present.
  14. 7th Special Forces Group
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Next: August 16th was National Airborne Day, list of Airborne units past and present.

  1. 7th Special Forces Group
  2. 82nd Airborne Division
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August 16th was National Airborne Day, list of Airborne units past and present.

  1. 7th Special Forces Group
  2. 82nd Airborne Division 67538
  3. SEAL Team Six
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August 16th was National Airborne Day, list of Airborne units past and present.

  1. 7th Special Forces Group
  2. 82nd Airborne Division 67538
  3. SEAL Team Six
  4. 11th Airborne Division (Angels)

A WWII airborne division which was deactivated in 1958.

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August 16th was National Airborne Day, list of Airborne units past and present.

  1. 7th Special Forces Group

  2. 82nd Airborne Division 67538

  3. SEAL Team Six

  4. 11th Airborne Division (Angels)

  5. 332d Fighter Group (Tuskegee Airmen)

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I assume the OP just wants airborne troops of all kinds, not pilots (of fighters or anything else), thus disqualifying Personal’s submission?

August 16th was National Airborne Day, list of Airborne units past and present.

  1. 7th Special Forces Group
  2. 82nd Airborne Division 67538
  3. SEAL Team Six
  4. 11th Airborne Division (Angels)
  5. 332d Fighter Group (Tuskegee Airmen)
  6. Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne
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They tried to tell her no but she put her foot down.
mmm

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Indeed – I should have clarified. By Airborne I meant troops delivered by parachute from an aircraft.

August 16th was National Airborne Day, list of Airborne units past and present.

  1. 7th Special Forces Group
  2. 82nd Airborne Division 67538
  3. SEAL Team Six
  4. 11th Airborne Division (Angels)
  5. 332d Fighter Group (Tuskegee Airmen)
  6. Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne
  7. 112th Signal Bn (SO)(A)
    My former unit:
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Thought I knew the meaning of airborne. Turns out I was wrong. Learned something new today.

67480

Good thing I didn’t go with my first pick, Perseus.

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August 16th was National Airborne Day, list of Airborne units past and present.

  1. 7th Special Forces Group
  2. 82nd Airborne Division 67538
  3. SEAL Team Six
  4. 11th Airborne Division (Angels)
  5. 332d Fighter Group (Tuskegee Airmen)
  6. Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne
  7. 112th Signal Bn (SO)(A)
  8. Russian ‘Blue Berets’ (VDV)
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August 16th was National Airborne Day, list of Airborne units past and present.

  1. 7th Special Forces Group
  2. 82nd Airborne Division
  3. SEAL Team Six
  4. 11th Airborne Division (Angels)
  5. 332d Fighter Group (Tuskegee Airmen)
  6. Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne
  7. 112th Signal Bn (SO)(A)
  8. 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment (1 PARA), British Army
67483

It just occurred to me that perhaps only American airborne units were intended. Let me know.

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August 16th was National Airborne Day, list of Airborne units past and present.

  1. 7th Special Forces Group
  2. 82nd Airborne Division
  3. SEAL Team Six
  4. 11th Airborne Division (Angels)
    1. Fallschirm-Jäger-Division, Luftwaffe, WWII
  6. Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne
  7. 112th Signal Bn (SO)(A)
  8. 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment (1 PARA), British Army

Substitution for entry #5.

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August 16th was National Airborne Day, list of Airborne units past and present.

  1. 7th Special Forces Group
  2. 82nd Airborne Division
  3. SEAL Team Six
  4. 11th Airborne Division (Angels)
    1. Fallschirm-Jäger-Division, Luftwaffe, WWII
  6. Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne
  7. 112th Signal Bn (SO)(A)
  8. 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment (1 PARA), British Army
  9. Teishin Shudan, Imperial Japanese Army
67486

August 16th was National Airborne Day, list of Airborne units past and present.

  1. 7th Special Forces Group
  2. 82nd Airborne Division
  3. SEAL Team Six
  4. 11th Airborne Division (Angels)
    1. Fallschirm-Jäger-Division, Luftwaffe, WWII
  6. Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne
  7. 112th Signal Bn (SO)(A)
  8. 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment (1 PARA), British Army
  9. Teishin Shudan, Imperial Japanese Army
  10. United States Army Parachute Team
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August 16th was National Airborne Day, list of Airborne units past and present.

  1. 7th Special Forces Group
  2. 82nd Airborne Division
  3. SEAL Team Six
  4. 11th Airborne Division (Angels)
    1. Fallschirm-Jäger-Division, Luftwaffe, WWII
  6. Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne
  7. 112th Signal Bn (SO)(A)
  8. 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment (1 PARA), British Army
  9. Teishin Shudan, Imperial Japanese Army
  10. United States Army Parachute Team
  11. 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion, French Foreign Legion

Things did not go well for it at Dien Bien Phu.