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Senior Member
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Winnipeg, MB, CANADA
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05-16-2003, 09:28 PM
i'm still laughing about the sandwiches and underwear biggrin:
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1st Lieutenant
Posts: 4,235
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Austell, Ga
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05-16-2003, 10:27 PM
i wanna dive man, id be the 1st brother from my town that has done it and didnt say" man crazy white boys love it"
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Major General
Posts: 14,130
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA
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05-16-2003, 10:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Vance1
Yeah, I jumped with the 152nd Airborne Squad into Eastern Iran. Its not as fun as it is hyped up to be. But I got the Iron Cross for bravery under Freindly Fire. SO ti all evened out, plus I had a great CO, John Milla.
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THATS ME!!! biggrin: |
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05-16-2003, 10:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Vance1
Yeah, I jumped with the 152nd Airborne Squad into Eastern Iran. Its not as fun as it is hyped up to be. But I got the Iron Cross for bravery under Freindly Fire. SO ti all evened out, plus I had a great CO, John Milla.
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sounds like one of our assault stories biggrin: |
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Senior Member
Posts: 2,828
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Buzzin around the dung pile...
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05-16-2003, 11:22 PM
I skydived once, but I did a tandem jump. If you are doing five hours of ground school, you are probably going to do a solo? Its a hell of a rush. I wasnt nervous at all until they opened the door at 12k feet. Then I got nervous all at once, but I didnt have very long to think about it. The free fall was the best part, but its over in a blink. The parachute ride down gives you a chance to catch your breath.
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Senior Member
Posts: 2,077
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Winnipeg, MB, CANADA
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05-17-2003, 06:10 AM
christ, it's now 7am in the morning.....
2 hours til jump school......
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Senior Member
Posts: 2,077
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Winnipeg, MB, CANADA
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05-17-2003, 06:40 AM
7:30 am now!
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Senior Member
Posts: 5,138
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Texas. Heyuck.
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05-17-2003, 06:49 AM
Godspeed! biggrin:
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05-17-2003, 09:29 AM
remember! always check your chute to see if there's underwear and lunch in it
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Senior Member
Posts: 2,077
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Winnipeg, MB, CANADA
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05-17-2003, 05:36 PM
I DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Holy crap!!!!!!!!! What an experience!!!! I don't care what all of the others say about skydiving, whether it being a mediocre experience or what, but WOW!!!!! I recommend that all of you guys here do it!
We had a jump school on the ground which lasted about 4 hours - we had a break in the middle for lunch. After writing a little quiz on what we learned (i got 29 out of 31), we geared up.
We go to choose our own jumpsuits from a variety, and lucky for me, i found a German paratrooper jumpsuit among the suits! It was a camo suit, with the german striped flag on the shoulder with a ton of zipper pockets. I tell u, i felt like a paratrooper. The actual jump was amazing. The scariest part was standing underneath the wing exposed to all that wind..... when i let go, my adrenaline skyrocketed, then my chute deployed after like 3 seconds, and i drifted peacefully to the ground while YELLING AND SCREAMING in elation! YAAAAAA!!!! IT WAS AWESOME!
Now i got to wait til thursday to obtain a copy of the video of our jump.
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Chief of Staff General
Posts: 20,691
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Brampton Ontario Canada
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05-17-2003, 06:07 PM
how much did all this cost
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Senior Member
Posts: 5,138
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Texas. Heyuck.
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05-17-2003, 06:20 PM
How high up were you? 3 seconds of freefalling doesnt seem very high.......
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Senior Member
Posts: 2,077
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Winnipeg, MB, CANADA
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05-17-2003, 07:37 PM
it cost $107 cdn. and i was in the air for almost 1.5 minutes.... we were 3000 ft in the air... it was an experience i will never forget!
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Senior Member
Posts: 2,077
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Winnipeg, MB, CANADA
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05-17-2003, 07:37 PM
thats $107 including the jump and first jump IAD school
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1st Lieutenant
Posts: 4,435
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: American't
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05-17-2003, 08:07 PM
any chance of ripping that video so we can watch you shit your pants biggrin:
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