04-20-2006, 16:27
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Guess where I just spent the day?
Yuma Proving Grounds, watching some soldiers, sailors airmen and Marines jumping from aircraft at 12,500 feet. Nice facility, lots of good instructors, nice equipment!
MFF school is in capable hands.
Thank you Warrior Mentor for taking the time to show me around!
Team Sergeant
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04-20-2006, 16:31
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Ah the days. I've jumped YPG, but before the school was moved there.
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
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04-20-2006, 19:16
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I did an MTT there once...I think there was a club in town on the R as the road entered...wasn't it like 50 miles away???
Must have been a good day TS-of course, EVERY day in FreeFall is a good day 
Eagle
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"I have hung out in dangerous places a lot over the years, from combat zones to biker bars, and it is the weak, the unaware, or those looking for it, that usually find trouble.
Ain't no one getting out of this world alive. All you can do is try to have some choice in the way you go. Prepare yourself (and your affairs), and when your number is up, die on your feet fighting rather than on your knees. And make the SOBs pay dearly."
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04-20-2006, 19:33
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Beware!
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Originally Posted by Eagle5US
I did an MTT there once...I think there was a club in town on the R as the road entered...wasn't it like 50 miles away???
Must have been a good day TS-of course, EVERY day in FreeFall is a good day
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Beware of any military post that has a driveway over 35 miles long.
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Been to a few of them
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04-21-2006, 06:52
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YPG
Spent two years testing parachute stuff including some HALO/HAHO projects in the early '80s. Seeing viseo of Phillips DZ brings back very fond memories. The bar that Doc referred to was the Dome Center Bar aka Snake Pit which was a better description. Rosey and her girls were a sight and a lot of fun. I commuted from town and we had the bar locations marked so I was not without a beer on the way home. Great tour!
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04-21-2006, 12:32
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Outstanding way to spend the day!
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04-21-2006, 12:44
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Was my pleaure. Glad to let you see what things have evolved into...
Great instructors out here make my job easy.
Now if only I could find a way to eliminate any requirements for paperwork to higher...
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