Craig Morgan

Hence the name test platoon.

platoon first guys ever to parachute out of an airplane yeah so they were coming to the airborne while i was going through airborne school they we they were going to do the banquet at fort benning georgia and so uh i was calling cadence pretty regular you know and we'd be running you know

C-130 rolling down the strip.

Y'all have seen people, right?

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

And the whole platoon seat repeats.

I was doing that.

And one of the guys come up and said, one of the instructors said, hey, you do a great job at cadence.

They just passed this deal.

Congress, the 82nd Airborne Choir is coming.

They need more cadence callers.

You're going to do that.

Like I didn't have a choice.

He's like, you're going to do it.

I'm like, cool.

So every evening when we would get finished with airborne school, I would go to my room and pick up my guitar.

And I saw, I literally asked everybody, what's the test platoon.

We did our research and I found out that red King was a man who was the first enlisted man ever to jump out of an airplane.

And he talks, he talked about it in his story.

He landed on his ass and he, that was the big thing.