Why do people shout geronimo




















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If you need to contact us on your jump day, you can also contact us at the direct drop zone number: Email anytime: skydive skydivegeronimo. Same owners, same awesome team, just a new name. So why do we call ourselves Geronimo? Where would I go to find that film of that historic jump. According to the Wiki, both of those explanations are correct and also includes two other explanations, for a total of 4 different origins of why Geronimo is yelled as you jump from a high place. Here is the Wiki, if anyone wants to read it.

Follow the references within the Wiki, but slways consider the source. I have many cards and letters from Addye to my grandmother, Anna Clifton, which were written over a forty year period. In Chief Thunder Cloud played the part of Geronimo who escaped from the army by jumping off of the high wall of the fort. That, as I have read, lead the paratroopers, who had seen the movie the night before their maiden jump, to make the same yell.

I never yelled Geronimo! This was standard paratrooper practice. Unless you were that butter bar lieutenant that needed a boot in your ass…To help you out the door. But regardless why would other Apaches or Anglo-Americans care why dying Mexican soldiers were crying out in that 1 fight? In the movie Top Secret, a group of men jump from an airplane on a mission.

I damned near pissed myself laughing. My father was in WWII and this story is true, he told the story to my brother and me when we were very young. So the story is absolutely true. The guys lived, partied, and fought like there was no tomorrow, because in reality, for many of them, their tomorrows were numbered.

God bless the last great Americans in our history. Dad was Ft. Bragg as from Carolinas, but I knew he mentioned Airborne and Ft. They were all scared. Of course he was scared, too. He should just admit it. The next day, he made good on his promise. And who could blame them, with that kind of pedigree? Navy SEAL candidates go through some of the hardest military training known to man before earning their beloved Trident. Marine Corps photographer took some incredible



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