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re: Two Army parachutists collide at Chicago Air show collide - one dies
Posted on 8/16/15 at 10:47 pm to LSUTANGERINE
Posted on 8/16/15 at 10:47 pm to LSUTANGERINE
JANFU
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Posted on 8/16/15 at 10:49 pm to jbgleason
Yea, I was wondering the same thing. I find it hard to believe he didn't have one?
Posted on 8/16/15 at 11:10 pm to 13SaintTiger
quote:
You serious Clark?
Eh, this guy had done five tours. I don't think it's inappropriate at all to throw out those terms.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 11:13 pm to LSUTANGERINE
Is the name of the air show "Chicago Airshow Collide?"
Posted on 8/16/15 at 11:19 pm to fly2fish
quote:Flew out of Pope? Saw the two aircraft and the hangar they had on my way to Green Ramp. Many a time.
fly2fish
Posted on 8/16/15 at 11:19 pm to LSUTANGERINE
What is the point of that anyway? It seems so fricking dumb to me. I get precision flying, but precision parachute jumping? You weigh like 190 pounds a gust of wind could (and clearly did) frick things up. It's not even a tangible "skill" that would be useful in war, anyhow.
This post was edited on 8/16/15 at 11:21 pm
Posted on 8/16/15 at 11:21 pm to SG_Geaux
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Geez the first two replies are a guy claiming to know one and a guy claiming to be one.
I knew one in the loosest sense of the word. He was my BC at Benning during basic..
Posted on 8/16/15 at 11:33 pm to Wolfhound45
Yes, out of Pope. Best gig I had on active duty. Was a ton of fun doing airshows every weekend.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 11:40 pm to fly2fish
W or an O?
Posted on 8/16/15 at 11:45 pm to Wolfhound45
W. They couldn't pay me enough to deal with all the crap as an O.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 11:51 pm to fly2fish
Figured that gig would go to a W. Only O is probably (maybe) the DET CDR.
Did many a CASA 212 JM duty on St Mere with two retired Ws USASOC hired to fly out of Simmons. Always seemed like they had a sweet gig. 'Six minutes" on the ground, lift off, loop around, exit jumpers, recover static lines and D bags, land, repeat.
Did many a CASA 212 JM duty on St Mere with two retired Ws USASOC hired to fly out of Simmons. Always seemed like they had a sweet gig. 'Six minutes" on the ground, lift off, loop around, exit jumpers, recover static lines and D bags, land, repeat.
This post was edited on 8/16/15 at 11:53 pm
Posted on 8/16/15 at 11:56 pm to Wolfhound45
Lol, sounds a lot like my week days at Laurenberg.
Posted on 8/17/15 at 12:34 am to SirWinston
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What is the point of that anyway? It seems so fricking dumb to me. I get precision flying, but precision parachute jumping? You weigh like 190 pounds a gust of wind could (and clearly did) frick things up. It's not even a tangible "skill" that would be useful in war, anyhow.
There actually is a lot of value to precision HALO jumping for warfare. If you want to land right on top of a target after being dropped from 30,000 feet, then that's the way to do it.
Doing all the tricks and so forth is unnecessary, but there is a whole hell of a lot of value in being able to be on top of your target out of nowhere. You don't get that with static-line jumping or really any other kind of insertion procedure. There's a very good reason why the special ops from non-Army communities get HALO qualified and practice those insertions.
Posted on 8/17/15 at 6:04 am to AbuTheMonkey
HALO jumping seems to me to be a lot more practical than low level static line jumping in today's world.
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