Thai and U.S. airmen jump from C-17 at Cope Tiger
Airmen from the US and Royal Thai Air Forces conducted personnel airdrop training from a C-17 Globemaster III near Bangkok, Thailand, March 3, 2010, as part of Cope Tiger 2010. More than 60 qualified jumpmasters from the US Air Force and the Royal Thai Air Force Parachute Team completed three separate jumps as the first major activity of the Cope Tiger field training exercise. Cope Tiger is an annual, multilateral aerial large force exercise conducted in Thailand that includes humanitarian and civic assistance programs. The mission marked the first time Thai personnel jumped out of a C-17 using a static line. In addition to the static-line jumps, US and Thai airmen performed High Altitude-Low Opening jumps from the back end of the jet, as seen in this video.
