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Originally Posted by Pete
Fort Bragg soldiers to resume using T-11 parachutes
http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/...1?sac=fo.local
"Fort Bragg's senior leaders demonstrated their confidence in the Army's new square-shaped parachutes by wearing them in a jump from a C-130 plane Thursday.
Conventional forces suspended use of the T-11 model parachute after a training death last year on post. Lt. Gen. Frank Helmick, commander of the 18th Airborne Corps, said an investigation led to some changes, namely in how the parachute is packed and related training.................."
The T-11 is back in service. |
I wonder if it's opening shock is anything like the T-7's I've jumped so long ago...We were told we were the last class at Bragg to use them April 1955...... The T-10 was a pussy paracute we used them without that mod they add on after those 101st troppers were hurt and some killed in that mass jump in 1957,just as they were reactivated....BTW,that activation killed the 1th ABN and forced to retire there colors.......... 
Big Teddy 
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Last edited by greenberetTFS; 06-27-2012 at 00:09.
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