U.S. Army Lt. Col. Phillip Sounia, a cavalry squadron commander with the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team presents American jump wings to Capt. Arya Nimit, a paratrooper with the Indian army's 50th Independent Para Brigade, May 15, on St. Mere Eglise Drop Zone on Fort Bragg, N.C. Indian and American paratroopers jumped from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter during Yudh Abhyas, annual training between the Indian Army and U.S. Army Pacific, hosted this year by the XVIII Airborne Corps.