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SPC Troy Yocum backed by a team is taking on the challenge of raising the needed $5 million by hiking 7000 miles across America while drumming. The journey will take 15 months passing through 25 states and 25 large cities. Troy will have to average over 20 miles a day while enduring each season. The idea for the hike has been evolving since Troy joined the Army in 2001 but it is now when our economy is struggling and military families are in most need that he will put one foot in front of another. Read more here.
Could a person ever imagine what it would be like to fly with the American Flag over patriotic crowds saluting and singing the National Anthem? It is not really so far fetched as a combat wounded Vietnam War Veteran streaks across the sky “Riding Old Glory” over Normandy, France during the D-Day Commemorations there.
“Years ago, I saw this giant American Flag Parachute on the opening scenes of a Hollywood movie called Terminal Velocity, as actor Charlie Sheen was flying it between 20 story buildings. I loved it and never forgot it. Now I own it,” says the former U.S. Army Airborne Ranger.
Since acquiring the custom made 288 square foot ram-air 9 cell parachute, professional skydiver Dallas Wittgenfeld has used it to open the Thunder Birds Air Show, Wounded Warrior programs, numerous D-Day commemorations, Military Order of the Purple Heart promotions and was featured at the Purple Heart Hand in Hand productions in Branson, Mo.
“Look close at the landing into the Merville Battery National War Museum over Normandy, France. Trailing is an authentic U.S. Capitol Flag and the Military Order of the Purple Heart National Flag, in honor of all combat wounded Veterans”, Wittgenfeld states.
“When I jump in France? I carry down a French Foreign Legion patch that I recovered from a dead Viet Minh in the Vietnam War. The Vietnamese combatant obviously cut it off a dead Frenchman at the losing battle of Dien Bien Phu. I jump with it proudly, in memoriam, of those French paratroopers who died there before America got involved in the war of French Indo-China”, the Para-commando admits.
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SPC Troy Yocum backed by a team is taking on the challenge of raising the needed $5 million by hiking 7000 miles across America while drumming. The journey will take 15 months passing through 25 states and 25 large cities. Troy will have to average over 20 miles a day while enduring each season. The idea for the hike has been evolving since Troy joined the Army in 2001 but it is now when our economy is struggling and military families are in most need that he will put one foot in front of another. 
