Members of the U.S. Army's Golden Knights and British Army's Red Devils prepare to jump on Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., on June 13, 2022. Defense One / Bradley Peniston
A Joint Jump for US-UK Friendship Day
The British Army's Red Devils and the U.S. Army's Golden Knights parachute into Washington, D.C.’s baseball stadium.
ABOVE WASHINGTON, D.C.—Baseball stadiums, it seems, are challenging to jump into.
"Being enclosed, the winds inside of it actually creates kind of a cyclone effect," said Staff Sgt. Gabriel Colon, a member of the U.S. Army's Golden Knights parachute demonstration team. "The winds could be 10, 15 miles [an hour] up above the stadium, but as soon as you go into it, it's zero mph."
Colon and the rest of the Knights' Black squad were in town June 13 to help celebrate U.S.-UK Friendship Day. To mark the occasion, they staged a joint jump into Nationals Park, home of the Washington Nationals baseball team, with members of the British Army's own parachute display team, the Red Devils.
Here's a bit of what it takes to get out of a perfectly good aircraft some 4,000 feet above D.C. and safely onto the Nationals' outfield: