An 82nd Airborne trooper, one of the first dropped in an assault, secures drop zone (DZ) for other paratroopers.
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army"><img alt="United States Army" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Emblem_of_the_United_States_Department_of_the_Army.svg/22px-Emblem_of_the_United_States_Department_of_the_Army.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="22" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Emblem_of_the_United_States_Department_of_the_Army.svg/33px-Emblem_of_the_United_States_Department_of_the_Army.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Emblem_of_the_United_States_Department_of_the_Army.svg/44px-Emblem_of_the_United_States_Department_of_the_Army.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="900"></a> Captain Michael A. Nelson, U.S. Army
1971-09
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rucker.army.mil/avjournal/1970/1971/AVN_DIG_1971-09.pdf">Semper Primus</a> (United States Army Aviation Digest, September 1971, Vol. 17, No 9,) page 7.