Paige Myers

Paige Meyers enlisted in the Army in 2003 and spent the next twenty-one years making sure paratroopers had what they needed to do the impossible on schedule. As a 92Y — Unit Supply Specialist — she built her career on a truth most people never see: a jump doesn't happen because someone is brave, it happens because someone accounted for every chute, rig, ration, and pound of equipment down to the last line item. She was very good at that job.

Most of her career was spent with the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, with tours across other airborne and contingency-response units along the way. She earned her jump wings early and never stopped going out the door — first as a paratrooper, later as a jumpmaster responsible for the men and women exiting behind her. She deployed multiple times in support of division operations, ran supply for units that had to be wheels-up on no notice, and made Master Sergeant as the senior supply NCO holding a battalion's logistics together. By the time she retired in 2024, she had spent two decades proving that meticulous people are what make audacious things safe.

She founded Airborne Adventures in Seattle the year she took off the uniform. After earning her civilian USPA ratings to add to a military career's worth of canopy time, she built the kind of operation she'd have wanted to send her own soldiers to: obsessive about the gear, calm about the rest. She runs it the way she ran a supply room — nothing left to chance, every rig checked twice — so that the person strapped to her can afford to be terrified and thrilled and fully present, because she isn't. What she loves is the ninety seconds after the first jump, when a first-timer lands and can't find words, and she remembers that the whole point of all that meticulous logistics was always this: getting one more person to the door.