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    For You Paratroopers

    During basic, my drill sergeant asked me if I wanted to go to airborne school. My response, one that came out too fast to have run through the filter all trainees knew to run all words through, earned me a whole lot of pushups.

    Too all you lunatics who think jumping out of planes is the best way to enter a battlefield...


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    My drill sergeant told me "There ain't but two things that come out of the sky - birdshit and fools".
    Later on I did volunteer for airborne, but luckily they said my eyesight wasn't good enough.
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    Back in 1989 I received a letter in Korea telling me I was being asked if I would like a position in the newly being formed 2/160th at Hunter AAF in Georgia. As a good Hooker Crew Chief the first response out of my mouth was "there is no reason to jump out of a Perfectly Good Aircraft" because one of the requirements listed was going to Airborne school. I declined and that was where My uncle ended up retiring from he started in 1/160th at Campbell, and tried for years to get me to change my mind, while tempting my knees are bad enough without jumping.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Innkeeper View Post
    Back in 1989 I received a letter in Korea telling me I was being asked if I would like a position in the newly being formed 2/160th at Hunter AAF in Georgia. As a good Hooker Crew Chief the first response out of my mouth was "there is no reason to jump out of a Perfectly Good Aircraft" because one of the requirements listed was going to Airborne school. I declined and that was where My uncle ended up retiring from he started in 1/160th at Campbell, and tried for years to get me to change my mind, while tempting my knees are bad enough without jumping.
    I always hated the mandatory yearly brief they made me go to for the 160th, and Delta. Took a lot of NCOs away from the flightline who were not interested in the program anyway. It is my understanding they have changed the briefings to a voluntary basis now.
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    It is possible I got out of aviation Back in 1995 , and was just medically retired due to acquired injuries, but there is always a shortage in Aviation, especially in Chinooks, though back in 07 we got a request to our unit for 13P who wanted to volunteer for Korea due to a shortage of qualified FDC's.

    Plus "voluntary" is not always so I volunteered once for a combat outpost detachment in '06 while I was home on RR because my chief remembered all my MOS's and knew I would happily want to help out.

    SO I would take that understanding with a grain of salt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Innkeeper View Post
    It is possible I got out of aviation Back in 1995 , and was just medically retired due to acquired injuries, but there is always a shortage in Aviation, especially in Chinooks, though back in 07 we got a request to our unit for 13P who wanted to volunteer for Korea due to a shortage of qualified FDC's.

    Plus "voluntary" is not always so I volunteered once for a combat outpost detachment in '06 while I was home on RR because my chief remembered all my MOS's and knew I would happily want to help out.

    SO I would take that understanding with a grain of salt.
    I always loved being Voluntold.
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    AIRBORNE! "no reason to jump out of a perfectly good aircraft" - unless you know the air force is flying it lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by omegabrock View Post
    AIRBORNE! "no reason to jump out of a perfectly good aircraft" - unless you know the air force is flying it lol
    My dive buddy was a ranger and jump master back in the 70's. He remembers being told by the load master to get everyone off the plane ASAP because the plane was having "issues."


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    hahaha...at bragg i had a jump master that would simulate 'issues' by having us jump on red because...and i quote "you never know what they'll **** up"

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    Quote Originally Posted by omegabrock View Post
    AIRBORNE! "no reason to jump out of a perfectly good aircraft" - unless you know the air force is flying it lol
    I was a hooker, I ran more then one jump mission out of a helo. Any fool can fly a plane the best pilots fly Helo's and the Elite Fly Chinooks.

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