For people who fall in love with skydiving, chasing that next jump becomes a way of life. For Stanley “Bo” Kinnison, it has become not only a way of life, but a way of giving back. Kinnison joined the U.S. Army in 1978 and served in a maintenance position. While he retired in the 1990s, a contract position opened up at Fort Bragg that he fell into which would change his life. Kinnison acknowledges that, at the time, he was quite the wild one and a definite adrenaline junkie. He got his nickname from tearing up the race track, like Bo and Luke Duke. He had a cousin in the 82nd Airborne who took on the “job” of channeling that wild streak into something useful. For Kinnison, something useful became jumping out of planes. CONTINUED PAGE 36
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