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Ah the memories...For you Airborne types
« on: July 18, 2015, 09:16:24 PM »
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Re: Ah the memories...For you Airborne types
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2015, 09:19:06 PM »
Sicily? Nijmegen? All-American?
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« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2015, 09:20:32 PM »
And the president plans to take the 82nd Airborne off jump status...
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Re: Ah the memories...For you Airborne types
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2015, 09:27:31 PM »
The president is a self absorbed, narcissistic, America hating, self aggrandizing, putz
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Re: Ah the memories...For you Airborne types
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2015, 09:38:14 PM »
Sicily? Nijmegen? All-American?

Doesn't look like Sicily/Gela but then again it's been a few years.
So, Bobby...being the calculating trained warrior NCO that you are.  Take the appropriate action, Execute!
your standard grunt level CQB is just putting rounds and rounds on scary stuff till it stops scaring you!

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Re: Ah the memories...For you Airborne types
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2015, 10:58:17 PM »
Is that Nates smiling face sitting there huggin a chute?  Sure looks like him-
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Re: Ah the memories...For you Airborne types
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2015, 11:08:51 PM »
That gives me butterflies in my tummy... exhaaaaaaaaale
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« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2015, 12:12:28 AM »
I have a lot respect for those guys, no way you could get me to jump that high.
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Re: Ah the memories...For you Airborne types
« Reply #8 on: July 19, 2015, 08:37:38 AM »
you will never catch me willingly jumping from a perfectly good aircraft, especially the hook.  sorry, this guy is a true ground pounder that gets to where he needs to go by 1 of 3 ways, driving his armored vehicle, walkin his happy hind end or being taken and landed by helicopter.
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Re: Ah the memories...For you Airborne types
« Reply #9 on: July 19, 2015, 02:46:19 PM »
I have a lot respect for those guys, no way you could get me to jump that high.
Bro, that's not high, I'm guessing 1500AGL. Bobby, look like 1500 to you?
Static line jumps are almost always 1500, sometimes lower, seldom higher. Halo's (High altitude, low opening, and HAHO's-high altitude like 14,000 high opening also known as hop and pops, and the dreaded HANO-high altitude, no opening. Anyway I've dropped literally thousand of jumpers on HALOs from 14000 up to 20,000. They can jump from 40,000!

And yea, Sicily was mostly sand. What was the next big one down the road? Nijmegen? or??
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Re: Ah the memories...For you Airborne types
« Reply #10 on: July 19, 2015, 02:51:13 PM »
Bro, that's not high, I'm guessing 1500AGL. Bobby, look like 1500 to you?
And yea, Sicily was mostly sand. What was the next big one down the road? Nijmegen? or??

1500AGL seems about right. Sicily was lots of sand, but had a few more hills, and a larger centerline road. Nijmegen was next. I'll lean towards Nijmegen.
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Re: Ah the memories...For you Airborne types
« Reply #11 on: July 19, 2015, 02:52:59 PM »
Ya know, I think that is All-American. Headed north going up toward Sicily. Isn't that range road on the south side of the DZ?
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« Reply #12 on: July 19, 2015, 08:50:12 PM »
1200' is standard... We did an 800' morale jump with the FFL  once....


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Re: Ah the memories...For you Airborne types
« Reply #13 on: July 20, 2015, 02:54:31 AM »
1200' is standard... We did an 800' morale jump with the FFL  once....

800-900' night time, 0200 TOT...

And all the fun jumps and wing jumps and etc happened after I left. I went to jump for my Chilean wings, and sat rigged up on Rhine Luzon for hours sitting in the sun... Chalk2, was going to be my last jump in Division... scratched due to high winds on the DZ.
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So, Bobby...being the calculating trained warrior NCO that you are.  Take the appropriate action, Execute!
your standard grunt level CQB is just putting rounds and rounds on scary stuff till it stops scaring you!

 

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