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    Quote Originally Posted by Denton View Post
    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...


    Thanks for the walk down memory lane...I can still remember them playing this every day, along with the sound track from Apocalypse Now. I loved this song. over 360 jumps and my knees are shot these days. I never really enjoyed it that much, I was what you call a "Parachute prostitute" ....I Did it for the Money!!!! and because I loved the Job once I landed.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=PX4Flhw0HSA

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    360? Damn! I'm barely sitting at 60 myself

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    Quote Originally Posted by omegabrock View Post
    360? Damn! I'm barely sitting at 60 myself
    Well I may have been fibbing about not likeing it to much...Weekend Fun jumps, Hollywood, from a Chinook, Black hawk, or a Huey were actually fun. I jumped out of a hot air balloon and a Container on a UH -54 Skycrane, An AN-2 Colt airplane...(Russian), an MI-8 HIP helicopter, an MI-17 Hind-D, A twin ottor and several other Aircraft. Great memories....but evry jump was a night time, water landing Jump.....which means I closed my eyes, and wet myself on the way down!....LOL. I never counted, I just screamed until my breath ran out and if my main canopy hadn't opened....I'd pull my reserve......

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    That is the problem OSFG getting paid as an Aircraft crew chief I can't get jump pay as well as Flight pay and flight pay is way too much to give up, hence why I never took the offer of Airborne school....plus like I said I already had a bad knee did not need to make it gone completely.

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    Well I'll be honest with all you great soldiers, I only served as a civilian, 35 years in both the Navy and Army, spent many days out at sea, wondering why I was there, doubled bunked with a mechanics mate for a while, then got a nice coleman cot in the radar room, you don't want to go out on deck during a lights out exercise...

    fall overboard, you are gone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ricekila View Post
    Welcome Ricekila...

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    Not tonight -- we gots some P/M-ing to do ?

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    I had the unfortunate experience of being a prior service Marine, now in the National guard, and I was 34 years old when I got to Benning. I was the biggest target in the entire class. And I ain't gonna jump no more

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    Damn, This thread started in 2014 and we still just got two pages into it, with most of the same OP's...We are getting old and slow....Good memories though...good pals here too....so anything worth talking about is worth taking a long time to say it...

    And I again give thanks to those who endured so much hardship upon their return and made damn sure that follow on generations of warriors never endured the same...Our Vietnam era vets... I say thank you for your service and you were my inspiration for joining. God Bless yall.

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