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Regular Joe
 
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slim84 (4/18/2008)
| I really learned to respect and be thankful for you riggers when I went to get my German Jump wings. I had exactly 100 military jumps using US equipment. Most of my jumps were using the MC1-1B. Never had a single malfunction of any kind. However, when I went to get my German Jump wings I had two partial malfunctions out of the five jumps using their equipment. I was told that German trainees packed the chutes. One malfunction was a line over resulting in a mae west. I rode it in. The other malfunction was either a line over or inversion. Maybe you can tell me. A group of shourd lines from one riser group ended up on the wrong side pulling in the opposite riser traping my head down on my chest. I rode that one in also.
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10thSFG, it sounds as if the German chutes were not equiped with anti-inversion nets. Nope. A I remember the chutes were made by Pioneer but I know that nad no anti-inversion net. They also jump at a high enough speed that II noticed some friction burns on a couple of my canopies. Aircraft was a C-160 for all five jumps.
De Oppresso Liber
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FNG
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| Her ex-husband Kirk & her divorced for a second time, and both are re-married to other people. Belkis still lives in NC with her new husband.
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Cherry
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82nd Rigger here, checking in. Joined paratrooper.net about a year ago while in Afghanistan, but shortly there after had no access to the internet, so haven't been back on here until now. Name is CPL David Buck, and been in for 5 1/2 years. What little time I have spent in an actual rigging position, I was in AD. Just spent the last 15 months creating and refining LCLA (Low-cost, low-altitude) in Afghanistan.
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riggerbuck (5/25/2008)
82nd Rigger here, checking in. Joined paratrooper.net about a year ago while in Afghanistan, but shortly there after had no access to the internet, so haven't been back on here until now. Name is CPL David Buck, and been in for 5 1/2 years. What little time I have spent in an actual rigging position, I was in AD. Just spent the last 15 months creating and refining LCLA (Low-cost, low-altitude) in Afghanistan. Good to have you back... too bad you hadnt checked in a week ago, would have loved to hook in with another rigger during the visit to Bragg.
 
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Regular Joe
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Welcome home fellow rigger...thanks for your service.
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FNG
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I'm not a rigger but I work with them in 4th Quartermaster Detachment (Airborne) at Fort Richardson.
YourfriendD
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Cherry
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Whoo-hoo! More ppl from the Army Baseball Team!
Randy Banning, SSG
95-97 JRTC (Pack & AD)
97-99 SETAF (Maintenance)
99-05 7th Group (Pack / Maint / HALO)
05-06 Division (Pack / HALO)
06-07 Army Reserves (USASOC) (Pack / Maint / AD)
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More riggers, always a good thing. Im pretty sure I gotta build a shed soon.
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