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Arcticabn (5/15/2008)
Rigger82 (5/15/2008)
All these pretty answers... I recall the 800ft jump on [insert any Ft Bragg DZ here] where you get out the door... check canopy, take a quick look up and down the DZ to get your bearings, dump ruck, undo the weapons case leg band, review the impact area (not the gun bunny one.. the one you'll be impacting below you), make a concerted effort slow any horizontal drift and then WHAM. Ignore stars and tweety birds long enough to release capewell on one side, ditch the harness, stow your crap and unass the DZ quick before someone lands on your sorry butt from the follow on aircraft. Yep and then you boarded the busses and went back to the chute shack, hung the chutes and had a couple of cold ones right? Had turn in points along the DZ where you'd drop your chute with the detail. They'd police them up and bring them to the tower and shake out detail would be assigned the next morning to go handle that. But the cold ones was right on if it were a non duty day the next morning because with the 82nd, it seemed like our TOT were always 2200 unless you were hit for a rigger 'confidence jump' (where they grab your own chute during the week and lock it in the cage and you jump it on Sat) where you get some reserve pilot and your TOT is 1000.
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| AIRBORNE!!!!!!!!!!!! Got to love the riggers...
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Cherry
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Hey Guys,
I know I've just recently hooked - up here but I gotta tell ya! This thread has brought back some of the BEST and I mean BEST times I had at Bragg! God I LOVED being a paratrooper!!!
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Cherry
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my last jump was a combat equipment night jump and this idiot dropped his ruck as soon as he exit the aircraft and his ruck tangled in my chute and it was a mess,,by the time his ruck was out of my chute I hit the ground hard and got knocked the f@*k out! so its important for jumpers to know when to drop their rucks..I was always told around 150-200 ft..
FIRE FOR EFFECT
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