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Originally Posted by EMase
Anyone who has jumped Malemute DZ in the middle of the winter after a fresh 1-2ft of snow has dropped can say that coming off the DZ with all that equipment is a smoker.
That is a T-11 and T-11R. They were just fielded this year (at JBER). T-11's have slip assist tabs to assist the jumper in pulling their riser.
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I was in the 6th ENG as my first unit and supported 501st done a number of Malemute DZ jumps. Fun times jumping in the snow. We on,y did snowshoes and door jumps. Not enough people could ski properly.
10Th and in a Mountain Team all we used was skies and jumped theme we typically did bundles, until someone, Jeff, made one burn it by throwing them out all crazy that UW/WET Sucked!!
Great memories of snow and military OPS. IADs were always fun. Thanks for the post!!