On Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Tuesday, a group gathered at the Malamute Drop Zone to pay tribute to 77 paratroopers that paid the ultimate sacrifice.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Tuesday, a group gathered at the Malamute Drop Zone, an area that typically serves as a training base for paratroopers of the 4th Brigade Combat Team , 25th Infantry Division.
The Spartan Brigade, as the 4-25 is also known, conducted the jump Tuesday as part of Spartan Memorial Week. Each of the names of the more than six dozen paratroopers who gave the ultimate sacrifice in wars overseas were carried, one by one, by current paratroopers jumping from above the drop zone. “The thing I remember most about Jake was he favored me, blonde hair, blue eyes,” Fritz said. “But he had what we used to call a barrel chest. No matter who you were, young or old, male or female, when he saw you after a while, or it had been a while, you got this huge smile and this big, old bear hug. And his chest hit you first.
“Our sons were friends. We’re now tied in a different way,” Fritz said. “We’re bonded forever, because, we don’t have to ... People say, ‘How’d you feel?’ We don’t have to discuss that. We know how it feels.
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