Used to do it ALOT in the early 80's as a junior enlisted guy...when MG Lindsey was the CG and he didn't believe in (rightly so) day jumps for training. In those days they were called "Fun Jumps," and were -1's, at 3000' AGL, usually tailgates, C-7A Caribou's or C-130's, but occasionally UH-1's.
We would get a keg, park in on the bleachers at Sicily, put our helmets in line since the unit running it would set up Friday evening, then we would party till they started manifest call, usually around 0600...got three in a day more than once....ah, the good ole days!
MG Steiner came in sometime around '86, and declared there was no such thing as a "fun jump." The Saturday jumps were meant to be an opportunity for troopers to hone their canopy control skills in a daylight, non-tactical environment, and promptly went to T-10's and mass exists at 800' AGL...
kinda took "fun" right out of it!
Now I am paying for each and every one of them every morning when I roll out of bed...
