Interesting news. I'll bring it up to my Air Guy when I get to work tomorrow.
Couple of side notes:
Those of you talking about wearing two altimeters, please check with your SFG(A) S-3s. We (USASFC(A)) sent out an AMHS Safety of Use to the Regiment following the fatal accident last December that restricts (prohibits) the placement of extra equipment on the right wrist. I do not believe it has been rescinded.
Also be aware that we've had some recent issues with Cypress malfunctions. The Regimental Aerial Delivery Officer thinks it was mostly an Air Farce problem but the CDR at Cannon (HAW) has forced us to cancel some MFF operations. We're trying to convince him that it's our risk assessment/acceptance but he's sticking to his guns (they are his planes and he does get a vote in what we do with them).
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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