In April 2010, members of the Australian Army's No . 176 ( Air Dispatch ) Squadron became the first paratroopers to jump from a non-American Globemaster; the type was first used to support training by the Army's Parachute Training School in June that year.
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The station comes under the control of the nearby RAF Brize Norton, home of No . 1 Parachute Training School RAF . The grass airfield at Weston is used regularly as a drop zone for military static line and freefall parachute training for the UK military, using C-130 Hercules aircraft based at RAF Brize Norton.
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Troops make each descent from a C-130 or Skyvan aircraft using the Low Level Parachute at heights of 800 ft and 1000 ft . On successful completion of their nine descents, trainees are presented with their'wings'by the Officer Commanding No . 1 Parachute Training School, and return to their units as qualified parachutists.
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At a briefing arranged at SSG Parachute Training School at Peshawar in the presence of two senior officers, Lt . Col . Abdul Matin, the Commander of No . 1 Commando Battalion, now retired and the brilliant Operations Staff Officer Maj . E . H . Dar, ( Later Major General E . H . Dar ) the Air Force Chief was told that only a pre-emptive operation like the Israeli crippling raids against the front line Arab states'air bases as in 1956 Arab-Israel War, could have probability of success.
