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Cherry
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| Hi Agonyea! In the french foreign legion while I was serving we never used canopy lights when doing night jumps, we had scouts out, marking on the ground for us, so we knew where to go at night, old system but it used to work.
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Cherry
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| Thanks for the nice welcome here on the paratrooper net, a big pleasure and a good site, where paratroopers form all over the world meet and talk experiences, we have many things in commen, specially one thing, Jumping out of planes (which is not natural ) Hooaah
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Legionaire, canopy lights is kind of a running joke in the US Airborne. No such thing exists of course but brand new paratroopers new to their unit would often be sent down to the supply room to get 'canopy lights' or other non-existent items (like the blank-adapter for the Dragon, the keys to Area-J, etc) just so everyone can laugh at them... All in good fun of course
1/508th Abn Inf, 82nd Abn Div 81-83 1/4th Inf (Mech), 3rd Inf Div (USAEUR) 83-84 SGT\EIB\Recondo "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." - Groucho Marx
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Cherry
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haha I will remember that one, we never did jokes like this, but we often told the young and new paras,that if they do a night jump and have no bergen or gear with them, they could use some stones and drop one now and then to find out how close they were to the ground,to find out when to get into to landing position.
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Jumping with a pocket full of rocks! Too funny!
Make The Voices Stop! - Paracowboy"Oh bother," mumbles Pooh as he chambers another round. CR6 to Cherokeekate - Another poser busted. One shot one kill should be YOUR motto. Or is it MOS?
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Oh and Welcome to Pnet!
Make The Voices Stop! - Paracowboy"Oh bother," mumbles Pooh as he chambers another round. CR6 to Cherokeekate - Another poser busted. One shot one kill should be YOUR motto. Or is it MOS?
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Cherry
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| cherokee! Hi well not exactly rocks just some stones in your pocket, to listen to the nois they make when hitting the ground before you do yourself, when you jump with gear it has a rope to hang in when you pull the handle. Jumping without gear at night is not funny, you feel the ground but you do not see it coming towards you.
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Welcome, to the DZ legionaire make yourself at home.
I'm Surprised Panama's still sea level, after all the Push Ups I did down there.
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