Definition of paratrooper
: a member of the paratroops
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Gaylord was a World War II Army paratrooper who received the Bronze Star during the Battle of the Bulge.
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Gaylord was an Army paratrooper in World War II and was awarded the Bronze Star, according to an obituary in the Times Argus newspaper.
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The drill from the fleet based in the Primorye region follows a series of maneuvers by the navy, army, air force and elite units such as Russia’s paratroopers and marines that have practiced combat in the region over the past 12 months.
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According to the Security Service of Ukraine, Wagner troops were involved in shooting down a Ukrainian airplane at Luhansk International Airport in June 2014, killing 40 Ukrainian paratroopers.
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Other flight missions included runs to Cologne, Hanover, Hamburg, Regensburg, Kiel and Belgium, where his crew bombed ahead of the paratroopers who landed during the ill-fated battle at Arnheim.
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Wochit Barbie has been a paleontologist, an architect, a paratrooper and a surgeon.
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During his closing arguments, the prosecutor, John Wall, a former paratrooper during the Korean War, gave Spock a backhanded compliment to the jury, according to the New Yorker.
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Over the previous year, as a first sergeant at Anchorage's Fort Richardson Army base, Alkire had helped expand a force of paratroopers from 600 to 3,600 and ready them for deployment.
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First Known Use of paratrooper
1927
PARATROOPER Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of paratrooper for English Language Learners
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: a member of a group of soldiers who are trained to jump out of airplanes using a parachute
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Definition of paratrooper for Students
: a soldier trained and equipped to parachute from an airplane
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