Airborne and Special OperationsMuseum
T
he Airborne & Special Operations Mu- seum in downtown Fayetteville, which opened in 2000 and features 59,000
square feet of exhibit space, pays homage to the impressive history of military Airborne and Special Operations units and their missions. Throughout the museum visitors will be
surprised and delighted to see exhibits large, small and uniformly fascinating. The museum lobby features two fully deployed parachutes while in the main exhibit gallery visitors liter- ally move through time, tracking the military exploits of airborne and special operations units through history. After walking through the body of a real
C-130 airplane visitors fi nd themselves in a replica of French village from the Normandy Invasion of June 1944. Exhibits continue into Cold War and Middle Eastern confl icts. The newest exhibits at the museum are devoted to the Global War on Terrorism, with full Hum- vees on display and depictions of Special Operations troops working with villagers in Afghanistan and in Iraq. And no visit to the museum is complete
without taking a "ride" on the simulator. Tues. — Sat., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. 100 Bragg Blvd. 910.643.2766 • www.asomf.org
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