TWIN FALLS — When Dan Schilling jumps off the Perrine Bridge July 7, it won’t be to set a world record.

He might set one anyway, but his attempt to make 200 BASE jumps in 24 hours is inspired by a less selfish cause — paying for college for more than 600 American children.

Schilling, a captain in the Air National Guard, will use the event to raise money for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. The foundation pays for college for children of special operations forces killed in either operational or training missions.

“We pay for everything: books, tuition, living expenses,” said Schilling. “We don’t care if they go to Boise State or Harvard.”

The foundation was established in 1980 after eight servicemen died and one was permanently disabled in an airplane collision at Desert One, a staging area in the Iranian desert during the Iranian hostage crisis. According to its Web site, it provided $916,586 in scholarship grants, educational programs and financial counseling to 109 students last year.

An avid BASE jumper and skydiver, Schilling has spent the past 20 years in the Army and Air Force special operations forces, and participated in such operations as the mission to Somalia the movie “Black Hawk Down” is based on.

He has worked with the foundation for 13 years, ever since the Somalia mission. The fathers of 13 children were killed on that mission, he said. He knew that one of those could have been him.

“I would want someone to come to my son and tell him what had happened,” Schilling said. “I would want someone to take care of him and help him go to college.”

Schilling’s attempt will challenge Australian jumper Gary Cunningham’s unofficial record of 133 jumps, set Dec. 31 in Malaysia. For his jumps, Schilling has arranged for a 60-ton construction crane with a basket attached. He will jump off of a platform built on to the bridge, then be hauled back up in the crane. He said the crane should cut the time between jumps to six to eight minutes.

One lane of the bridge will be closed to accommodate the crane, and Twin Falls police will handle traffic. Since he is starting at 8 p.m. on July 7, the bridge will be lit by floodlights.

Schilling, who said the most jumps he has done in one day is 10, has spent the last year training for the event. He said he will gladly take questions from the public and the media and sign copies of his book about the Somalia mission between jumps. The foundation will sell T-shirts, and there may be music.

“This is very much about celebration,” he said. “We’re here to celebrate freedom.”