When the paratroopers finished covering the crater, they backed off to admire their handiwork.
For the Paratroopers based in Sangin in Helmand province, it's been a hard few months.
BBC: Newsbeat - The P Word - British troops on losing colleagues
Paratroopers have started to apprehend looters, who have been stealing from the dead and destitute.
The Miller men -- both paratroopers -- didn't really plan to march shoulder-to-shoulder into harm's way.
Trained as paratroopers and intelligence operatives, they introduced a paramilitary element to narco-trafficking, outgunning police units.
Thirteen people died when paratroopers opened fire during a civil rights march in Londonderry in 1972.
Britain had already announced that it was sending a force of paratroopers to evacuate its citizens.
ECONOMIST: Who can, or will, save the country from its savage rebels?
Some were frightening ("we're going to jump into Berlin" among the paratroopers, for example), but most were hopeful.
Only the efforts of a few hundred British paratroopers prevented the insurgents from seizing the capital of Freetown.
Rather inconveniently, some of the paratroopers destined for the Gulf have this week been covering for striking fire-fighters.
American commanders claim that much has changed since the arrival of their paratroopers.
Paratroopers from kibbutzim danced with yeshiva buchers as they stood in awe before the remnant of the Second Temple.
He described having to run a gauntlet of paratroopers, being threatened and throttled.
"There's about 100 other paratroopers here and we will meet up afterwards and raise a glass to Maggie, " he added.
About 800 French soldiers, including hundreds of paratroopers, took part in the operation which saw Timbuktu recaptured six days ago.
BBC: Mali conflict: Timbuktu hails French President Hollande
Merah was blamed for the killings of three French paratroopers, a rabbi and three Jewish children ages 4, 5 and 7.
He served as a company commander in the paratroopers, and then went on to make a fortune in the hi-tech sector.
Meanwhile, at least 15 Russian paratroopers were killed when the helicopter in which they were travelling was shot down by Chechen fighters.
The charity supports families of paratroopers from 3rd Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, who have been wounded or killed while serving in Afghanistan.
He told tales of the Rangers, the paratroopers, the ordinary people who found in themselves, at such places as Omaha Beach, something extraordinary.
He froze in his tracks and the paratroopers had to grasp him by the upper arms and drag him the last few meters.
Petraeus attended an airborne school in France after graduation and consorted there with French paratroopers who had fought in Vietnam during the nineteen-fifties.
No one doubted that something dreadful was about to happen to the naked Christ, who was being prodded up the incline by the paratroopers.
On October 29th, Israeli paratroopers, led by a zealous officer called Ariel Sharon, were dropped into Sinai to fulfil their side of the bargain.
Last month, France sent more than 100 paratroopers but insisted they were only there to secure its nationals - not to save the government.
In 1943, German paratroopers, on the orders of Adolf Hitler, seized former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini who was being held prisoner by the government.
Witness Maurice McColgan told the inquiry that he and other people arrested by the army were beaten up by paratroopers at a holding centre.
The first of about 3, 500 paratroopers were to board C-17 aircraft from Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina and arrive in Haiti before nightfall.
应用推荐