The Golden Knights are back at Homestead

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HOMESTEAD AIR RESERVE BASE, Fla. --  For the fifth straight year, the award winning jump team has come to Homestead ARB, their official winter training site, to hone their skills in preparation for the 2014 air show and competition circuit.

As the "Official Ambassadors of the Army," the Golden Knights perform spectacular live parachute demonstrations for the public.

In 1959 the Strategic Army Command Parachute Team, or STRAC, was formed by "Airborne" Soldiers from various military units. In 1961, the Department of Defense announced on June 15th, that the STRAC team would become the United States Army Parachute Team.

The team is one of three authorized DOD aerial demonstration teams along with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and U.S. Navy Blue Angels.

Home based at Ft. Bragg, N.C., the 91 men and women who make up the Golden Knights are separated into seven sections: two demonstration teams, a tandem team, two competition teams, an aviation detachment and a headquarters section.

The team has a fleet of four aircraft: two Fokker C-31A "Troopships" and two UVA-18 De Havilland Twin Otters.

Residents that live around the base will see the team's signature yellow and black parachutes until mid-March.

To learn more about the team visit them at: http://armygk.armylive.dodlive.mil/.