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82nd_Raider
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yeah, Hippo, that Swing Land Harness always had a way of tipping over at the very last second.
All the way, sir!!! 
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Trooper
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OINK OINK !! 
You can run and you can hide, but you'll only die tired !
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Stare Master
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The problem when I went through is that there is a limit on how long you could stay on medical hold like that. I think thirty days was the max(unless your time fell during the Christmas holiday break) and then you either had to go through the course or you would be put on orders to a non-airborne unit in the regular Army. There is a fine line between pushing through the pain in order to successfully complete it and doing something stupid that will cause a more serious injury that will take longer to recover from. If he can handle it and finish I would probably say that he should.
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.
"History teaches that when you become indifferent and lose the will to fight someone who has the will to fight will take over." COLONEL BULL SIMONS
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All I remember is my shin splints (trying not to limp around the Black Hats) and my feet, ass, head landings. 
Why play lawn darts when you can be one?
Q: Miss, were you cited in the accident?
A: Yes, sir, I was so 'cited I peed all over myself.
-actual courtroom testimony
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Air Force Liaison/P.Net Original Cast of Characters
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If he can make it until Jump 5...then he can "sprain" it on that last jump!!!!!! And I'm not hard-headed...I just don't listen.
LOAD CLEAR! LOAD CLEAR! "Your job is my hobby!!" 
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Regular Joe
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Broke 2 toes on my second jump, double timed off the DZ and finished my last three jumps.
________________________________________________________________________ "Out of every one hundred 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."
Heraclitus circa 500B.C.
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Pnet's Thread Insurgent and Chief Muldoon
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We're not "pig-headed" I believe the trait is called Robust otherwise known in some circles as "Hard-Headed." On my last jump 17 years ago I cracked my head on a rock after being drug 300 feet on my face on the DZ, the rock lost; yeah I spent 3 months in a coma and about a year in the various hospitals but I'm alive, married, and have 2 beautiful daughters now so life isn't too bad. Keep him in you're prayers and stop thinking all these negative thoughts about us paratroopers it's the legs of the world who really are the pig headed ones.
I'm Surprised Panama's still sea level, after all the Push Ups I did down there.
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Green GI
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| Recycle was one of the most horrible words I ever heard in my life. There was no way I was ever going to start over or take a chance on getting dropped. I had bronchitis twice. Basics and Airborne. I NEVER went to sick call. They were going to have to drag me out of there. Recycle and quit are the two nastiest words I know. Leave the troop alone. He'll be fine.
C Co., 1st/75th Ranger, 80-81, RS 5-81Were you born worthless, or did you have to work at it?
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