06-16-2012, 17:07
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Special Forces of the 60's........
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06-16-2012, 18:01
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Made me hungry for some BBQ iguana 
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06-17-2012, 10:23
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Those Jump School scenes are really old. I went through in 66 and it had changed a lot by then. No blackhats? When did they stop wearing the Ridgeway caps? There were high mounds at the end of the cables from the 34' towers.
We jumped from aircraft (or birds) not aeroplanes!!
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06-17-2012, 10:33
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Originally Posted by WCH
Those Jump School scenes are really old. I went through in 66 and it had changed a lot by then. No blackhats? When did they stop wearing the Ridgeway caps? There were high mounds at the end of the cables from the 34' towers.
We jumped from aircraft (or birds) not aeroplanes!!
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I did jump school in 1955 at Ft. Bragg,but graduated SFTG in 1964,wish I could have had the "Tower" experience.....  There was no official SF training in the 50's........  The job I hated most at jump school was "rope man"..... 
Big Teddy 
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I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not....
Zonie Diver
SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
Jack Moroney
SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
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06-17-2012, 12:16
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Take up the slack rope man !!! Rope man, Take up the slack ! 
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06-17-2012, 12:21
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Benning. BAC. 34 ft tower. Late June. Rope Man.
It still makes me shudder....
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06-17-2012, 12:37
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Benning. BAC. 34 ft tower. Late June. Rope Man.
It still makes me shudder....
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Zonie
Didn't you also do the Tower training?......... 
Big Teddy
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I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not....
Zonie Diver
SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
Jack Moroney
SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
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06-17-2012, 12:44
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Zonie
Didn't you also do the Tower training?.........
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BT,
I did it ALL... and liked it SO much that I asked if I could stay for another three weeks and get five more jumps.
I think it was "rolling" through the showers, and then doing situps in the sawdust pit that I liked the most. That kind of stuck with you all day!
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06-17-2012, 12:55
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BT,
I did it ALL... and liked it SO much that I asked if I could stay for another three weeks and get five more jumps.
I think it was "rolling" through the showers, and then doing situps in the sawdust pit that I liked the most. That kind of stuck with you all day!
Airborne.......
Big Teddy
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I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not....
Zonie Diver
SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
Jack Moroney
SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
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06-17-2012, 13:48
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I think it was "rolling" through the showers, and then doing situps in the sawdust pit that I liked the most. That kind of stuck with you all day! |
I went to JS in Aug/Sep 78. Women had been integrated into the program for a couple of years. It was a good deal in the sense that you didn't have to waste your money going downtown for the wet t-shirt contest.
Now that I think about it, there were topless dancers in the NCO clubs so I guess it didn't make any difference...
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