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- Thirteen paratroopers stationed at Fort Benning, Ga., started the prop blast ritual in December 1940, naming it after the blast of air that jumpers felt after exiting aircraft. The ceremony lost its luster when it became more about drinking and hazing.
www.courant.com › 2006/02/20 › veteran-paratroopers-join-elite-fraternity-in-ritual-known-as-prop-blast-ceremonyVETERAN PARATROOPERS JOIN ELITE FRATERNITY ... - Hartford Courant
Even the Prop-Blast initiation for paratroopers newly assigned to an airborne unit was a preposterous burlesque, with artificial icons and enthroned paragons. It probably was more entertaining for them to imagine new and creative ways to torment the FNGs, as there must have been a staffer's guidebook of More Nasty and Dirty Tricks for their ...
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Feb 20, 2006 · Thirteen paratroopers stationed at Fort Benning, Ga., started the prop blast ritual in December 1940, naming it after the blast of air that jumpers felt after exiting aircraft. The ceremony...
Abstract. Officers' initiations, Prop Blasts, are elaborate, classically structured rites. Enlisted men, left to their own devices, hold physical hazings, Cherry Blasts, which are outside regulations, tacitly condoned, dangerously unregulated, and ritually underdeveloped.
Mar 20, 2014 · In mid-December 1940, 13 officers of the 501st Parachute Infantry Battalion stationed at Fort Benning, Ga., started the “Prop Blast Ceremony,” naming it after the blast of air that jumpers...
Mar 25, 2014 · Arctic paratroopers reboot 'Prop Blast Ceremony' By Courtesy March 25, 2014. Share on Twitter; Share on Facebook; ... Senior leaders assigned to the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne ...
Field grade officers and senior noncommissioned officers with the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division jump onto Geronimo Drop Zone on Joint Base Elmendorf ...
U.S. Army officers answer questions outside the 82nd Airborne Division Museum during Prop Blast, a traditional event that welcomes new officers to the division on Fort Bragg, N.C., April 8,...
