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BMT (RIP)
11-14-2004, 04:32
This is more than just a jump story.
BMT
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/11/14/npara14.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/11/14/ixportal.html
alphamale
11-14-2004, 05:37
"... Everything I tried failed, so I resigned myself to the fact that I was about to die. Bizarrely, from that point on, everything seemed to slow down and I became strangely calm. I remember thinking of how lonely I felt at the time. "
His mentioning loneliness at that instant was interesting.
There is so much happening in instants like that, yet there is time for loneliness.
Radar Rider
11-14-2004, 05:57
What are you, stupid? Pull your reserve!
I'm glad that he made it out alive.
The Reaper
11-14-2004, 08:27
Piss poor pre-jump training, or FTFSI.
Obviously not a Para.
Lucky bastard, though!
TR
Weazle23
11-14-2004, 10:29
He says his body position prevented him from pulling his reserve... screw that noise, I'll be doing continuous summersaults and pull that reserve if I have to. I wonder if that Lt Col in charge caught serious flak.