And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, August 31, 2023
Not good. I hope they were able to drag him back in.
I was involved in something similar in 1975, in germany, at night. A guy behind me's parachute didn't open and he fell through my canopy, collapsing it and entangling both of us, spiraling down. I got loose and deployed my reserve about 200' above the ground. Broken left ankle, femur, elbow and 7 pelvis fractures. The other guy wasn't so lucky.
I was gathering up my parachute on the drop zone at The Airborne School in 1981 when the Blackhats bullhorned “EVERYBODY FACE WEST” (Or whatever direction, I don’t remember this many decades later). We all turned to see THREE guys tangled up in one messy bunch withTHREE main chutes inflated and one sad reserve fluttering lamely off to the side. It looked like a green Apollo capsule. The Blackhats bullhorned “NOW YOU KNOW WHAT THREE DUMASSES LOOK LIKE. GET BACK TO WORK!”
I heard later there were multiple broken bones plus one of them got his thumb degloved when a deflated chute reinflated and snapped taut the cord tangled around his thumb.
former Master Blaster. these guys are definitely not US trained, and not our equipment. you'd have to try to pull him back in, as hard as that is to do. only other option is to cut him loose and let him pull his reserve, but it looks like his harness is all f-ed up. must not be in a plane moving all that fast either, or he'd be at more of an angle than he is there. my first instinct would be to cut him loose (standard practice if he's conscious). he's got the rest of his life to figure it out.
I've seen guys burn in like Aesop mentioned; I've seen guys walk away from what should've killed 'em. it's a hell of a way to die. and a hell of a thing to have to write him mother to tell her.
I've never jumped (or fallen) from a plane, but pretty sure that there's something wrong here......
ReplyDeleteMost likely not a happy landing
ReplyDeleteLooks like Russian kit, first guy has blue chute.
ReplyDeleteAlways pack your own....
ReplyDeleteGeeez….where’s his practice tower training…legs and arms splayed and flailing…??
ReplyDeleteBut it took three days and two operations to get his underwear out of his rectum, and his hair is permanently white now.
ReplyDeleteI was involved in something similar in 1975, in germany, at night.
ReplyDeleteA guy behind me's parachute didn't open and he fell through my canopy, collapsing it and entangling both of us, spiraling down. I got loose and deployed my reserve about 200' above the ground. Broken left ankle, femur, elbow and 7 pelvis fractures. The other guy wasn't so lucky.
Ouch.
DeleteI was gathering up my parachute on the drop zone at The Airborne School in 1981 when the Blackhats bullhorned “EVERYBODY FACE WEST” (Or whatever direction, I don’t remember this many decades later). We all turned to see THREE guys tangled up in one messy bunch withTHREE main chutes inflated and one sad reserve fluttering lamely off to the side. It looked like a green Apollo capsule. The Blackhats bullhorned “NOW YOU KNOW WHAT THREE DUMASSES LOOK LIKE. GET BACK TO WORK!”
I heard later there were multiple broken bones plus one of them got his thumb degloved when a deflated chute reinflated and snapped taut the cord tangled around his thumb.
Sitting in a gun poz at the edge of DZ Normandy, '85.
DeleteGround NCO on bullhorn:
"PULL YOUR RESERVE!
PULL YOUR RESERVE!
PULL YOUR RESERVE!
PULL YOUR RESERVE!"
Two-legged projectile flaming in under a "cigarette roll" malfunction:
WHAPPITY-WHAP Whap whap...
One of our corpsman got to him before the Army medics; said they should've just rolled him up in the 'chute to make cleanup easier.
Bugler, play Blood On The Risers.
Not US troops.
ReplyDeletePucker factor +100.
ReplyDelete"Oh what a hell of w way to die"
ReplyDeleteIf he survives- some rigger is getting his ass kicked.
ReplyDeleteformer Master Blaster. these guys are definitely not US trained, and not our equipment. you'd have to try to pull him back in, as hard as that is to do. only other option is to cut him loose and let him pull his reserve, but it looks like his harness is all f-ed up. must not be in a plane moving all that fast either, or he'd be at more of an angle than he is there. my first instinct would be to cut him loose (standard practice if he's conscious). he's got the rest of his life to figure it out.
ReplyDeleteI've seen guys burn in like Aesop mentioned; I've seen guys walk away from what should've killed 'em. it's a hell of a way to die. and a hell of a thing to have to write him mother to tell her.
Chi.
Airborne School, Benning, 1988
Jumpmaster, Ft Bragg, 1992, Master Rated 1994.