| 6/16/2014 3:54:09 AM |
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snakeharley
Asheville, NC
46, joined Oct. 2009
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Hey I'm a former belgian army Para Commando with the belgian A Para and Commando brevets
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| 6/16/2014 8:01:54 AM |
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jrbogie1949
Ventura, CA
68, joined Mar. 2009
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gots me some chickenwings.
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| 6/16/2014 1:49:41 PM |
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whiskeyrichard1
Burlington, KY
70, joined Sep. 2013
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I am! 1/501/101st Vietnam. easiest thing I ever did. My daddy was 1/501 at the Bulge. Both of us were medics .Aint nothing to it brother..just gravity!
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| 6/16/2014 7:30:39 PM |
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digitaldog
Grove, OK
68, joined Dec. 2010
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" AIRBORNE " qualified here..??..!! 
With many of the Armed Services represented and now DH members ....
There just MIGHT BE a few here..
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 -XoXoXoX-
And ALL my friends....
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| 6/17/2014 2:15:10 PM |
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snakeharley
Asheville, NC
46, joined Oct. 2009
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I am! 1/501/101st Vietnam. easiest thing I ever did. My daddy was 1/501 at the Bulge. Both of us were medics .Aint nothing to it brother..just gravity!
Thats right bro but still it isnt for anyone for me after Commadoschool ,airborne school was club med.
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| 6/17/2014 2:16:49 PM |
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snakeharley
Asheville, NC
46, joined Oct. 2009
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" AIRBORNE " qualified here..??..!!
With many of the Armed Services represented and now DH members ....
There just MIGHT BE a few here..
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-XoXoXoX-
And ALL my friends....
Maybe there are also some women paratroopers here?
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| 6/17/2014 7:00:07 PM |
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whiskeyrichard1
Burlington, KY
70, joined Sep. 2013
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Never met one Currahee. I did know a gal who was a rigger.
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| 6/26/2014 7:20:05 AM |
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pandeist
Traverse City, MI
68, joined Nov. 2013
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We use helicopters now. Airborne was relevant a few wars back. It ain't today. Besides, for a couple hundred dollars, I can rent a parachute and pilot and jump out and be airborne qualified. Just don't see the point?
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| 6/26/2014 10:08:07 AM |
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whiskeyrichard1
Burlington, KY
70, joined Sep. 2013
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Some years ago pandiest I went with some guys and gals up to Skydive Richmond up in Indiana. Several of the guys had never jumped before ,we were all drinking and riding bikes. I think it cost like $180 bucks. Two hours after we got there they had these guys doing PLFs off a picnic table! I cracked up. Then they took us into the hanger where they had a mock up of a planes door and did some stuff and got some more instructions . We got fitted with a rig and climbed into a Otter and all did static line jumps. The whole thing didn't take three hours....
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| 6/27/2014 7:42:48 AM |
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jrbogie1949
Ventura, CA
68, joined Mar. 2009
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i don't recall when i became airborne qualified. seems i've known all my life how easy it is to jump and rely on gravity to do it's thing. 
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| 6/27/2014 7:47:53 AM |
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xxjay45xx
El Campo, TX
72, joined Jun. 2014
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Never jumped. Never had a desire or reason to.
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| 6/27/2014 8:08:59 AM |
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bier95
Clara City, MN
66, joined May. 2011
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Why would someone want to jump out of perfectly good air craft. Sounds like a death sentence to me.
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| 6/27/2014 10:15:41 AM |
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whiskeyrichard1
Burlington, KY
70, joined Sep. 2013
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bier its a rush to be sure. I cant explain it to anyone who never did it but when you go out that door and fall its a bit scary especially at night.Then you hear your chute opening and get that pull from it, jerks you . Then everything is so damn quiet , just the wind and the sound of the plane drifting away....for about a minute and a half maybe...and the ground starts coming up at you! But you land and walk away and you know you beat death. Probably doesn't make sense to legs....no insult intended.
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| 6/27/2014 11:26:56 AM |
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jrbogie1949
Ventura, CA
68, joined Mar. 2009
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you know you beat death? really, whiskey? don't know the statistics but i'd be willing to bet good money that on a percentage basis far more people die in cars and even golf courses each year than die in a failed parachute jump during military training.
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| 6/27/2014 11:36:15 AM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
68, joined May. 2010
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...but my late husband was 101st
...and I am a 101st booster
...but I did go skydiving in one of those "weightless" simulators once
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| 6/27/2014 4:56:53 PM |
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karrpilot
Oswego, IL
53, joined Jul. 2009
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I can fly a plane, but am certainly not going to be jumping out of one. 
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| 6/27/2014 6:06:46 PM |
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john1644
Mount Holly, NJ
86, joined Aug. 2011
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1947, 82d Airborne. Qualified at age 17. 1951, 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team. Combat jump with 187th Airborne on 23 March 1951 at munsan-ni, Korea.
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| 6/27/2014 7:45:16 PM |
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allaloneinga
Woodstock, GA
50, joined Aug. 2010
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101st 1st of the 502, 82nd 2nd of the 504
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| 6/28/2014 6:16:12 AM |
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kevinjones78
South Haven, MI
38, joined Sep. 2012
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Nope not a dirt dart... more dope on a rope here...air assault here... 10th mountain.....
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| 6/29/2014 11:26:58 AM |
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whiskeyrichard1
Burlington, KY
70, joined Sep. 2013
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Air Assault has pretty much made airborne troopers (like me and others) dinosaurs. Makes a lot more sense.
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| 6/30/2014 9:53:22 AM |
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jrbogie1949
Ventura, CA
68, joined Mar. 2009
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wonder when was the last time anybody jumped into actual combat? korea, maybe?
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| 6/30/2014 10:29:25 AM |
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snakeharley
Asheville, NC
46, joined Oct. 2009
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As resent as iraq the 187th airborne afghanistan the 75th rangers in 89 rangers and 82th in grenada
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| 6/30/2014 10:38:40 AM |
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jrbogie1949
Ventura, CA
68, joined Mar. 2009
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didn't know that.
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| 6/30/2014 12:21:51 PM |
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whiskeyrichard1
Burlington, KY
70, joined Sep. 2013
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I don't think we will ever see jumps of the scale of Normandy or in WWII again. The logistics and risks are outweighed by advances in insertion of troops in choppers. On the other hand a element of our ground forces will probably always be dedicated to airborne units. If you go down to Ft. Campbell (I have ) you will find a huge emphasis on air assault training there as well as several other bases.
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| 7/21/2014 9:35:47 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
68, joined May. 2010
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July 21
1861
Confederate forces won victory at Bull Run in the first major battle of the Civil War.
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| 7/22/2014 7:59:09 AM |
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armyboganok
New York, NY
28, joined Jun. 2014
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82nd 3rd brigade combat team
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| 7/25/2014 4:53:49 AM |
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abninf
Euless, TX
49, joined Oct. 2010
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Master rated jumpmaster, lots of foreign wings. Thai Balloon, Russian, Panama, UAE, German, Canadian, Honduran, a few others. Got screwed out of the Panama jump when the mission got delayed for a week and my unit went from DRF1 to DRF9. Sat on the flight line at Pope AFB with my ammo and chute and watched them fly away since we didn't get a bird. We had already trained to take down the prison. Our A Co. were the only guys in my battalion to go (3-505th), I was in B Co. Got turned around over the ocean enroute to Haiti in '94 when Jimmy Carter got it stopped. Talk about being deflated. We were supposed to drop into Saddam International in the invasion in '03 but a sandstorm halted the ground forces so the mission was scratched. We already had our chutes issued. We did an air assault into As Samawah instead.
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| 7/25/2014 8:46:37 AM |
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gdaddy47
Columbia, TN
69, joined Sep. 2009
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I have jumped from 6 feet out of a Huey on Combat Air Assaults.
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| 7/25/2014 9:06:34 AM |
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armyboganok
New York, NY
28, joined Jun. 2014
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Master rated jumpmaster, lots of foreign wings. Thai Balloon, Russian, Panama, UAE, German, Canadian, Honduran, a few others. Got screwed out of the Panama jump when the mission got delayed for a week and my unit went from DRF1 to DRF9. Sat on the flight line at Pope AFB with my ammo and chute and watched them fly away since we didn't get a bird. We had already trained to take down the prison. Our A Co. were the only guys in my battalion to go (3-505th), I was in B Co. Got turned around over the ocean enroute to Haiti in '94 when Jimmy Carter got it stopped. Talk about being deflated. We were supposed to drop into Saddam International in the invasion in '03 but a sandstorm halted the ground forces so the mission was scratched. We already had our chutes issued. We did an air assault into As Samawah instead.
I want to be this guy. seriously.
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| 10/8/2014 10:05:18 AM |
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kpfubar1976
Lexington, KY
42, joined Sep. 2014
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airborne also and loved it.
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