Saturday, July 15, 2017

I love to imagine there’s one dude asleep in the back seat.

Air dropping Humvees from a C-17, at night.


3 comments:

  1. This is from a cartoon I once saw, that I'm unable to find again:

    "I don't care how many skydives you have, until you step out of a plane into pitch black darkness at 800 feet with 100 pounds of gear and 40 pounds of parachute, you ain't Airborne!"

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  2. The three weeks of training at the Jump School at Fort Benning, Georgia, with its emphasis on safety, is far more thorough and intensive than anything taught by a civilian skydiving course.

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  3. When I was in they never combined troops with cargo...it could get ugly with bad locks or bad rig. I did a night jump in full moon and fog on the ground...it looked like dropping into a big pillow until you were in the fog. You got into a plf position when you could hear the guys next to you grunting as they hit the ground. indyjonesouthere

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