Brian Campbell led his California based army reserve team for parachute and aircraft training in Florida as preparation for the 2021 77th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France.

Every year, the local French towns situated along and near the D-Day Landing Beaches come together to coordinate the D-Day Festival, which features commemorative events and festivities on the five D-Day Landing Beaches and in Sainte-Mère-Église, Bayeux and Arromanches-les-Bains (Gold Beach sector) to name but a few places. Participants from dozens of countries around the world converge each year in early June to commemorate the event with a mass parachute drop honoring the American and Allied paratroopers who jumped into Normandy in the early hours of June 6^th, 1944.

In preparation for the festival, as explained by Major Campbell, he and his team spent the weekend in Florida with his unit training in and around the WWII C-47 aircraft they will be flying in and parachuting from in early June for the 77th-anniversary commemoration of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France.