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Lejeune Marine Dies At Military Parachute School
Sgt. Jason Maxwell Dies When Parachute Does Not Open
POSTED: 6:56 p.m. EST October 31, 2003
YUMA, AZ -- A North Carolina-based Marine died in a parachuting accident Thursday. He was training at the Army's Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona.
Sgt. Jason Maxwell jumped with an instructor and others as part of the basic free-fall school, but his parachute did not open.
The 25-year-old was from Fresno, Calif. He was a reconnaissance Marine in the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force stationed at Camp Lejeune.
An instructor who had been videotaping the jump was hospitalized after his parachute deployed too close to the ground. Gunnery Sgt. Richard Schindler was discharged from the hospital with only a sprained back.
The cause of the accident is under investigation.
The death is the second at the Yuma Proving Ground this year and the sixth since the free-fall school opened in 1995.
Roughly 30,000 jumps a year are conducted at the proving ground.
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One of their free-fall instructors died a few months ago.
You can bet that this school will be looked at real close under this investigation.
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"His parachute did not open" is not much of a description, especially since he had a reserve.
I'd like to know more details, which will definitely be forthcoming in time.
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What Marine units are MFF qual'd? Or is he maybe attached to USSOCOM?
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Originally posted by martinjmpr
What Marine units are MFF qual'd? Or is he maybe attached to USSOCOM?
Okay, the author of this article doesn't know his a@@ from a hole in the ground, he was 2nd Force Recon according to the article I read in the paper this weekend.
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The 25-year-old was from Fresno, Calif. He was a reconnaissance Marine in the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force stationed at Camp Lejeune.
Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ and the American GI. One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.
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