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Jay Collins: “I was already airborne qualified. I was in the 82nd Airborne…”

Featuring: Jay Collins, Lieutenant Governor of Florida

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Governor DeSantis Podcast Ep 5

Published | Video Starts at 06:51

When you to go to try out for Special Forces, do you have to be airborne qualified already, or is that after that? Yeah, so that depends you can do it either way. I was already airborne qualified. I was in the 82nd Airborne Division on Fort Bragg. learning to attest the theory of gravity. I was actually in jump school for 9 11. So that's Fort Benning. It sure is. I did my first jump on September 10th. (06:51–06:56)

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