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Old 08-19-2020, 09:29 AM
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So . . When did you make your final jump?
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Old 08-19-2020, 09:54 AM
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If'n the Para pride kicks in ... He'll never admit that he's done his last one yet.
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Old 08-19-2020, 10:06 AM
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Roger, Johnny. I meant the last one I did.

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Old 08-19-2020, 10:33 AM
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If'n the Para pride kicks in ... He'll never admit that he's done his last one yet.

I'm not so sure.
I think you need to be an over confident youngster to make the audacious assumption that the parachute will open after you jump out of the airplane.
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Old 08-19-2020, 10:57 AM
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I'm not so sure.
I think you need to be an over confident youngster to make the audacious assumption that the parachute will open after you jump out of the airplane.
Michael, my point is that when you have overcome that fear and have done it a few times (or many many times in my case) you'll do it again, and again at any and every opportunity. It's not until you get to do that assisted tandem jump for charity to celebrate your 100th birthday that you begin to reluctantly admit to yourself that it just might be the last time you send a loud prayer to that old injun chief whose ghost watches over us still.

Airborne ain't an old boys club y'know ... 'tis a Religion. I'm fast approaching 77, but I'm ready to go again tomorrow.

The biggest adrenalin rush ever is that first static drop ... especially when the dispatcher thinks it's funny to shout "GO ... Come back!" Some guys actually tried to climb back up the lines.
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Old 08-19-2020, 11:34 AM
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And to your point John, I understand George H.W. Bush made his final jump after he had been using a wheel chair for a while.
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I agree with John. Its been a while for me, but I'm Ready to do it again. C130's where my main transports.
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Old 08-19-2020, 03:35 PM
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I agree with John. Its been a while for me, but I'm Ready to do it again. C130's where my main transports.
I guess there is one point we'd all rather not discuss here though boys ... What they required of us after we hit the deck ... I doubt that many of us would truly wanna go through that again, eh? Fastest way in for a grunt, but it can be a hell of a walk home.

One day I'll be allowed tell of how we re-launched the Delta-2s to fly out of a few hotspots.
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Old 08-19-2020, 11:46 PM
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I guess there is one point we'd all rather not discuss here though boys ... What they required of us after we hit the deck ... I doubt that many of us would truly wanna go through that again, eh? Fastest way in for a grunt, but it can be a hell of a walk home.

One day I'll be allowed tell of how we re-launched the Delta-2s to fly out of a few hotspots.
John is correct, quick way in, LPC to get you out (Leather Personnel Carriers).
Always volunteered for the Saturday "Fun Jumps", would like to go again.

The Saturday "Fun Jumps" meant a Chinook helicopter and daylight to see by, oh, and 3-thousand feet up.

Here is an old photo taken on a Saturday Fun Jump.
16 August - National Airborne Day-10-21-fun-jump.jpg

I do miss the sight/feeling you get when looking down and there isn't anything under your feet for hundreds of feet.

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