KANSAS CITY Griffin Jax's wife, Savannah, earned a promotion to the rank of captain in the United States Air Force on May 24. If he'd remained on active duty, he'd have been on schedule to earn his promotion to captain at that point, too.
But Jax's promotion schedule was
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MINNEAPOLIS As it turns out, there are only about two weeks of instruction before the U.S. Air Force straps a parachute to you, puts you on a plane and asks you to jump out by yourself.
It s one thing to have learned about the aircraft and ripcords and procedures and how to pack the parachute and how to line up and how to land. But when it actually came time for Griffin Jax s first jump as part of a summer program at the Air Force Academy, he had no idea whether he d have preferred to be first or last out of the plane. The anxiety builds when you re waiting in anticipation at the back of the line, you know?