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JR's Chick
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| Sounds to me like you just need to get over this, and wait patiently for your chance to go to BAC. You said this doesn't irritate you as much as your post is showing, but it must if you decided to write about it...or you just had time on your hands, huh? I was amused at your description in educating your fellow soldiers on what it really means to be Airborne...I'm sure they really enjoy that. Everywhere you go is different...you'd be the man walking around Campbell, but now you're somewhere new, a 'Cherry' in general being the FNG and a 'Cherry' because you are not Airborne qualified. Another new guy will show up soon, and will take the brunt of the taunts. All this 'my pee-pee is bigger than yours' type crap always makes me glad I'm a woman. I don't have to deal with this, I just get points because I'm Airborne! 
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I saw the same thing in Korea. There was a few of us that had been at Bragg and it showed. One of my Troops was a 5 jump chump, fresh out of AIT and BAC. He was always talking about others being a LEG and so on. I had pulled him aside and told him that there is nothing wrong with being Airborne but thats just the basic course he went through. The real training begins when he gets to a Airborne unit. He talked a good game until there was talk about deployment to the Sandbox. Then he was seriously upset and was saying that he signed up for college not deployments. I wanted to take his wings right then and there. I tell people that Airborne is a way of life. Its not just a school that you go through. So dont let those guys talk trash to you.
"The sergeant is the Army." - General Dwight D. Eisenhower
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| I think the others summed this up pretty tightly and I just wanted to reiterate that just like special schools, mos or between services.. there is a pride instilled that your end is THE best and its used to motivate, new BAC grads come out of Benning riding a high no drug addict could lay claim to and Im sure you see it in those situations. After a bit of time that all fades away and only comes up during the drinking or if people are out doing a badge check. MOST of the time my reference to LEG was either in jest or pushing local unit pride on Ft Bragg during the morning runs... or was a tool to tick off the ROTC when they came in and trained and wanted us to "salute the nickle". I think for the most part you should just blow it off but I agree that if some Private rolls in and starts calling you a leg, you simply use what is at YOUR disposal.. RANK and hook him up... he might be a BAC grad but he doesnt out rank you so you've got experience and training time. He's got 3 weeks of running and 5 gravity tests.
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| Just go to jump school, Leg. If Air Force guys can do it, certainly a Combat Infantryman from the 101st can do it.  PLUS - You'll look back on it as ANOTHER accomplishment you can be proud of, as opposed to one of the FEW you can be proud of - Like those knuckleheads who enjoy calling you a LEG. P.S. Audie Murphy was a Leg... If he was still alive, I'd like to see those dumba$$es try to give him shite because of it.
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| Once you get in the harness, its a whole new ballgame. Then you get all of that combat equipment rigged up and ready to jump, you really don't feel like you are second rate or want to talk about air assualt, etc. He will find out when he gets there: 
------------------------------------------------------------ Out of every 100 men, ten shouldn't even be there, Eighty are just targets, Nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back." - Hericletus, circa 500 BC ----------------------------------------------------------- 
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I would also be very careful how you use the term "5 Jump Chump" you haven't earned the right to use it, in any form.
I have had the pleasure and honor of meeting a "4 Jump Commando" Yep he didn't even finish, no let me say start jump school. He only made 4 jumps in his short military career. One in England and 3 in Europe. Of course the three in Europe won him three mustard stains.
You write well so I'll assume that you can also speak well. Being a Paratrooper or being Airborne is more then a qualification. It's an attitude and a way of life. Being a member of a unit with the name Airborne in it or having an Airborne history doesn't make you anything other then another soldier.
I have more experience under a canopy then most members of this forum. However, I have more respect for some that only have 15 or 20 jumps then I do for some that have made 40 or 50. Why, because of where they had to make those jumps. Think about that for a little bit before you start quantifying personnel with number of jumps.
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If you want peace prepare for war!
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