To attend MFFPC, students must have graduated from the U.S.
The Military Free-Fall Parachutist Course (MFFPC) is open to special operations forces assigned to military freefall coded positions, parachute riggers, and select DoD civilian personnel or allied personnel assigned to military freefall positions. Īn MFFS student and an instructor fall from a C-27J practicing freefall techniques over YPG Alternatively, detachments from the MFFS conduct the Military Free-Fall Jumpmaster Course via mobile training teams (MTT) for military freefall units that have difficulty attending the course at the Yuma Proving Ground. Air Force also conducts the Military Free-Fall Jumpmaster Course-certified by the MFFS-at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base for airman that are not able to attend the MFFS's jumpmaster course. The MFFS conducts four primary training courses, the Military Free-Fall Parachutist Course, the Military Free-Fall Jumpmaster Course, the Military Free-Fall Advanced Tactical Infiltration Course, and the Military Free-Fall Instructor Course. Army's Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) in Arizona, which is the USSOCOM proponent for military freefall. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School (SWCS), 2nd Special Warfare Training Group (Airborne), 2nd Battalion, Company B at the U.S. Military Free-Fall School (MFFS) is operated by the USASOC's John F. Army Special Forces HALO training at Ft Gulick The wings represent flight and airborne capabilities.Military as the standard freefall canopy. The parachute is a seven-celled MT1-X, the first ram-air parachute to be adopted by the U.S.The arched tab represents tabs worn by special operations forces.The dagger is a Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife, used by the Office of Strategic Services during World War II, and represents infiltration techniques.Unrestricted wear was approved on 7 July 1997 by General Dennis Reimer. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) on 1 October 1994. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) and James Phillips of the Special Forces Association. Updates on the design, adding a Master Military Freefall Parachutist Badge were submitted by General Wayne A. Dailey of SFODA-552, Company B, 2nd Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group. The Military Freefall Badge original design was submitted in March 1983 by Sergeant First Class Gregory A. 1st Class Dick Gross' Recon Team, CCC, MACV-SOG (HALO)Ģ5 miles, SW of Pleiku in the Ia Drang Valleyġst Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (HAHO)ħ5th Ranger Regiment, Regimental Reconnaissance Detachment, Team 3 (HALO)ġ0th Special Forces Group, 3rd Battalion, ODA 074 (HALO)ħ5th Ranger Regiment, Regimental Reconnaissance Company, Team 1 Sergeant Major Billy Waugh's Recon Team, CCN, MACV-SOG (HALO)Ĭaptain Jim Storter's Recon Team, CCC, MACV-SOG (HALO) Army Dateģ Americans, 1 ARVN officer and 2 MontagnardsĬaptain Larry Manes' Recon Team, CCN, MACV-SOG (HALO)īetween Ashau Valley and Khe Sanh, NVA trail extension of Laotian Highway 921
high-altitude parachute jumps of the U.S. A bronze star on each wing and one centered on the dagger
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