Spartan paratroopers jump back into training

By Sgt. Eric-James EstradaJuly 25, 2014

Spartan paratroopers jump back into training
1 / 14 Show Caption + Hide Caption – A paratrooper with the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, checks wind conditions shortly before a jump at Malemute Drop Zone on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, July 21, 2014. More than 400 paratroopers and e... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Spartan paratroopers jump back into training
2 / 14 Show Caption + Hide Caption – A paratrooper with the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, makes a call over a radio on Malemute Drop Zone before Spartan paratroopers conduct a training parachute assault on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, J... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Spartan paratroopers jump back into training
3 / 14 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Heavy equipment is dropped from a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster onto Malemute Drop Zone before paratroopers with the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division conduct a training parachute assault on Joint Base Elmendorf-Ri... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Spartan paratroopers jump back into training
4 / 14 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Paratroopers with the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, jump from a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster onto Malemute Drop Zone during a training parachute assault on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, July 21, 20... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Spartan paratroopers jump back into training
5 / 14 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Paratroopers with the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, jump from a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster onto Malemute Drop Zone during a training parachute assault on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, July 21, 20... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Spartan paratroopers jump back into training
6 / 14 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Paratroopers with the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, jump from a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster onto Malemute Drop Zone during a training parachute assault on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, July 21, 20... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Spartan paratroopers jump back into training
7 / 14 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Paratroopers with the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, jump from a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster onto Malemute Drop Zone during a training parachute assault on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, July 21, 20... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Spartan paratroopers jump back into training
8 / 14 Show Caption + Hide Caption – A Paratrooper with the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, prepares to land onto Malemute Drop Zone after jumping from a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster during a training parachute assault on Joint Base Elmendorf-Rich... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Spartan paratroopers jump back into training
9 / 14 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Paratroopers with the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, jump from a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster onto Malemute Drop Zone during a training parachute assault on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, July 21, 20... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Spartan paratroopers jump back into training
10 / 14 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Paratroopers with the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, jump from a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster onto Malemute Drop Zone during a training parachute assault on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, July 21, 20... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Spartan paratroopers jump back into training
11 / 14 Show Caption + Hide Caption – A paratrooper with the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, prepares to land onto Malemute Drop Zone after jumping from a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster during a training parachute assault on Joint Base Elmendorf-Rich... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Spartan paratroopers jump back into training
12 / 14 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Paratroopers with the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, jump from a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster onto Malemute Drop Zone during a training parachute assault on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, July 21, 20... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Spartan paratroopers jump back into training
13 / 14 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Paratroopers with the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, jump from a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster onto Malemute Drop Zone during a training parachute assault on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, July 21, 20... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Spartan paratroopers jump back into training
14 / 14 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Col. Matthew McFarlane (left), the commander of the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, and retired Lt. Gen. John Vines observe Spartan paratroopers conduct a training parachute assault at Malemute Drop Zone on Joint ... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska- Paratroopers here with U.S. Army Alaska's 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division got back to work this week by jumping into action after returning from summer leave.

More than 1,500 paratroopers and equipment filled the skies over Malamute Drop Zone this past Monday through Wednesday as part of a partnership training event with members of the U.S. Air Force from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. and Joint Base Pear Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.

The partnership training focuses on increased proficiency during an airborne assault and airfield seizure.

"They prove our proficiencies to deal with any threat in any environment," said Col. Matthew McFarlane, the Spartan Brigade commander said of the training. "Along with the Air Force units here and across from Air Mobility Command, we've been able to prove we can do that."

Earlier this year and in the span of one month, the Spartan Brigade conducted three airborne operations that extended over the Pacific Ocean and two continents.

Spartan paratroopers flew 17 hours from the below freezing temperatures of JBER and jumped into the tropical jungles of Thailand to participate in Cobra Gold 2014, one of the largest multinational and multiservice exercises in Southeast Asia, which takes places annually throughout the Kingdom of Thailand.

Two days later after parachuting there they packed up and jumped right back into The Last Frontier and then conducted a separate airborne operation 400 miles north of the Arctic Circle to simulate a search-and-rescue mission near Deadhorse, Alaska.

"I think it's a pretty unique experience," said McFarlane. "[By executing] both out load and delivery of our combat forces through joint forcible entry with every one of our missions we do like this today, we prove our proficiency."

The Spartan Brigade will conduct a similar event again in September with different U.S. Air Force units from across the Pacific.

"With every repetition, we become better at what we do," said McFarlane.