A combat jump is defined as a jump into enemy-held territory.
The implication was that jumping behind enemy lines wasn't really a combat jump.
On 26 March 2003, the 1-508th conducted a combat jump into northern Iraq.
This marked the first combat jump for the 505th since World War II.
His first combat jump was planned with the ground elevation 500 feet lower than it actually was and Fife found himself in a coconut tree.
He made a combat jump in Korea and commanded a rifle company on the line in that war.
It would be her first combat jump.
Just as he had planned it back in England, Myrtle was making her first combat jump.
This operation also signaled the last time that either the 82nd or 101st would make a combat jump during the war.