SF Trooper hurt at football game

rubberneck · 09-09-2005, 20:17

ESPN just showed footage of a SF soldier parachuting a game ball into a college game and hit the deck very hard. It looked pretty damn scary. They said he fractured his hip and had some other injuries. I have his name if one of the QP's wants it but won't post it in public.

**The Reaper** · 09-10-2005, 10:22

Probably the USASOC team.

Happens more often that you would care to think, especially with the smaller teams. Stadiums are a bear for DZs as well.

They stood down the SOCOM team after a SEAL bounced in Buccaneer Stadium.

TR

**Pete** · 09-10-2005, 10:33

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Originally Posted by The Reaper

Probably the USASOC team......TR

I saw the title and had a Gunfighter to the Troops and Combat Football flashback.

Warrior-Mentor · 09-11-2005, 12:18

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Originally Posted by rubberneck

ESPN just showed footage of a SF soldier parachuting a game ball into a college game and hit the deck very hard. It looked pretty damn scary. They said he fractured his hip and had some other injuries. I have his name if one of the QP's wants it but won't post it in public.

Please send me a PM.
Thanks,
JM

CommoGeek · 09-11-2005, 13:00

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Originally Posted by The Reaper

Happens more often that you would care to think, especially with the smaller teams. Stadiums are a bear for DZs as well.

Yes Sir.

Never jumped into a stadium but I'm told the turbulence can be real nasty in them. I know a former GK team member with.... scads of demo jumps that broke his ankle earlier this year jumping into Alltel Stadium in Jacksonville. A lot can wrong on a stadium jump.

I've hit rollers under big and small canopies and it is never a good time.

rubberneck · 09-11-2005, 14:09

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Paramedics tend to a special forces soldier who was injured in a hard landing before the Washington State-Nevada game Friday night at Mackay Stadium. Retired Chief Warrant Officer Dave Larson of Hurst, Texas, broke his hip and fractured his arm. He was the second of three parachutists who jumped from a helicopter in gusty winds during a pregame ceremony honoring the military.

A U.S. Army parachutist broke his hip in a hard landing in the middle of the field at Mackay Stadium on Saturday night before the Washington State-Nevada football game.
Retired Chief Warrant Officer Dave Larson of Hurst, Texas, was the second of three parachutists who jumped from a helicopter in gusty winds during a pregame ceremony honoring the military.
He was coming in fast, then pulled up slowly near the top of the stands before the wind appeared to drop out of the parachute and he fell about 60 feet and landed on his side. Paramedics attended to him on the field for about 10 minutes before he was transported off the field on a truck and taken to a Reno hospital.
Larson had made more than 2,000 jumps in his career. His condition was not immediately known, school officials said.
“It is somewhat serious, obviously,” said Jamie Klund, Nevada sports information director. [quote]

rubberneck · 09-11-2005, 14:13

Picture of the CWO being helped off the field.

lksteve · 09-11-2005, 17:03

the winds here have been hellish the last week or so...Thursday night, i was surveying some aerial survey targets and can attest to the fact that it was howling at Mackay Stadium...the stadium sits up rather high, just south of a major ridgeline...with winds blowing in from the west, it can get very turbulent by the stadium...

on Thursday morning, i saw the wreckage of a motorcycle that got blown off one of the local roads...gusts have reached 65 miles an hour several time in the last week...not ideal conditions for any sort of parachute activities...

rubberneck · 09-13-2005, 18:34

A follow up from the AP:

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RENO, Nev. -- An Army parachutist who broke his hip and arm in a hard landing on the field before the Washington State-Nevada football game is recovering and intends to jump again.

Retired Chief Warrant Officer Dave Larson of Hurst, Texas, remained hospitalized Monday at Washoe Medical Center and was scheduled to have surgery on his hip, Nevada associate athletic director Rory Hickock said Monday.

"He's going to have two pins inserted in his hip, but his spirits are very, very high," Hickock told Wolf Pack boosters.

Larson, a Green Beret who recently returned from Iraq, was the second of three parachutists who jumped from a helicopter in gusty winds during a pregame ceremony honoring the military Friday night at Mackay Stadium. He had previously jumped more than 2,000 times.

Larson is expected to be released from the hospital Thursday.

"He has told us that within three months, he plans on jumping again," Hickock said.

Before the game, Larson was coming in fast, then pulled up slowly near the top of the stands before the wind appeared to drop out of the parachute and he fell about 60 feet and landed on his side. Paramedics attended to him on the field for about 10 minutes before he was taken to the hospital.

Nevada spokesman Jamie Klund said Larson told school officials the accident was his fault because he made a low turn and could not recover. Larson said it was not due to the wind, Klund said

CoLawman · 09-13-2005, 21:36

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Nevada spokesman Jamie Klund said Larson told school officials the accident was his fault because he made a low turn and could not recover. Larson said it was not due to the wind, Klund said

I too am in awe. Obviously, his taking responsibility for the accident underscores the virtues of this QP.