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Regular Joe
 
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Thanks for keeping us in the loop, Mike.
Extend my congratulations to her as well.
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Regular Joe
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AbnCrazy (4/30/2008)
Now lose the Apology in your Signature, you have nothing to be sorry for!! You did your time, you did your job, and that is damned good enough for me!!
We may be pretty tight with the spirit of the Airborne here, but not one of us looks down on anyone elses Service because they did not jump from a perfectly "good" Airplane....
Also, I'm still an FNG around here, but I can at least second the motion of the old timer (no disrepect intended AbnCrazy) quoted above.
Get rid of the apology in your sig, Mike. I dare say no one here is going to look down on you (except when we're in the air) 
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Green GI
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Dont know how you got a three fall and still grad but maybe they had 'connections'
Not sure. Yes, I was well respected by many of the blackhats, one from each co. made my graduation since I had either cycled through or worked with every company on the row!
I really did work my ass off and they saw that. I came in not straight from Basic but after being 1.5 years on reserve duty, working 40 hrs a week and going to school full time for a semester. I did not keep up my physicals the way I should have on my own time and the Reserve unit I was in didn't do PT often. Not an excuse, just saying that going in I was not starting off in tip top physical condition.
I did have my 3rd fallout be a medical issue, with stress fractures in both my hip sockets, so perhaps it wasn't considered a fail? I never asked, I just healed as fast as I could and hurried my recycle so I could get the heck out of there. Almost got yanked my 5th jump, while on the tarmac waiting to load but I'm mostly certain it was just to jack with me! 
And Riggergal...I'm sure you did work your ass off to graduate. I'm not trying to start WWIII here, I am just stating what happened in my class
Gotcha. I can be sensitive about the issue as I get that sort of reply a lot. My bad, sorry.
All of her jumps are done now and she is sore, the only thing she has left now is graduation tomorrow. I will not be able to be there because of work, I will be there in spirit. She said she had problems with her risers getting tangled and she ran in the air like the Sgt. Airbornes taught her and she was fine. "I AM SO PROUD OF HER AND ALL OF YOU" for what you have accomplished. Thanks for all of your support and so much of what has been posted here I have relayed to her. Now it's off to Rigger school for her. The story does not end here I will keep posting and maybe she will join the forum when she has access to a computer again. This evening she is kicking it with her Rigger buddies that she will be heading off to Fort Lee with.
Hooah to the new Airborne! Congrats to your daughter and to yourself for raising a lady with such grit!
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Green GI
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I'm sure it was a little harder for her, so she has a little more to be proud about.
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Cherry
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| Thanks so much for your time and comments. It seems it is all a challenge for her. She seems to be having a tougher time getting her sewing right in AIT than she had at Airborne school. She does tend to blow things out of proportion. I told her she should be able to sew, she is a girl, she didn't take that to well and she does know her Dad was kidding. Thanks Again, Mike
SSG M. Taynor (Retired)
Airforce and Army (not Airborne, sorry)
Father of a soon to be 92R
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Strac Trooper
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Congrats to your daugter!! I hated maintance and pack thats why I went Heavy Drop  .
"The sergeant is the Army." - General Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Regular Joe
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Sewing is the hardest thing to learn as a rigger. It takes more patience the you can imagine, but once you learn, you will do just fine. I got to work in maintenance and light pack, hut never made it to heavy pack.
Blue Skies, Black Death. We're off to see our maker!SDMF! 
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Itchee96 (5/24/2008)
Sewing is the hardest thing to learn as a rigger. It takes more patience the you can imagine, but once you learn, you will do just fine. I got to work in maintenance and light pack, hut never made it to heavy pack.I agree, sewing is difficult. I preferred packing of personnel chutes over all.
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