Paratrooper competition pics from “Leapfest XXXI” Paratroopers are jumping from CH-47 Chinook helicopters at "Leapfest" 2015 in West Kingston, R.I., Aug. 1, 2015. The exercise is an international parachute competition hosted by the Rhode Island Army National Guard’s 56th Troop Command to promote high-level technical training and esprit de corps within the international ai..