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Originally Posted by Jack Moroney
It also got fun during night jumps, trying to realign the risers by matching up two pieces of white reflecting tape that was sewn on the risers to indicate when they were at the "normal" position.
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the most fun that can be had with steerable parachutes of any type is to have them issued to some folks for a mass-tactical jump...once, when just a young pup in the 82nd, MC1-1s were issued to a battalion's recon platoon, us (combat engineers) and all of what passed for adult leadership within the battalion...instead of putting folks at one end of the stick or the other, we were lined up in stick order based on the computer print out...an interesting outcome, as we jumped into Swampy DZ at Lejune...
of course, this was a far better alternative to putting an entire battalion in steerable parachutes, which i later experienced in the 509th...
but alas, i digress...