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Old 12-22-2006, 17:18   #1
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AIRBORNE School!!!!!!
From the Team Sergeant to you "legs" attempting to graduate from Airborne School.

Instructions:

Go to the website below.

http://www.west-point.org/greimanj/w...ntherisers.htm

Turn up the volume on your speakers.

and sing along to the following: (oh and enjoy Airborne School )

Team Sergeant


Blood on the Risers


He was just a rookie trooper and he surely shook with fright.
He checked off his equipment and made sure his pack was tight.
He had to sit and listen to those awful engines roar.
You ain't gonna jump no more.

Chorus:
Gory, gory, what a hell of way to die.
Gory, gory, what a hell of way to die.
Gory, gory, what a hell of way to die.
He ain't gonna jump no more.

"Is everybody happy?" cried the sergeant looking up.
Our hero feebly answered, "Yes", and then they stood him up.
He jumped into the icy blast, his static line unhooked.
And he ain't gonna jump no more.

He counted long, he counted loud, he waited for the shock.
He felt the wind, he felt the cold, he felt the awful drop.
The silk from his reserve spilled out and wrapped around his legs. And he ain't gonna jump no more.

The risers swung around his neck, connectors cracked his dome.
Suspension lines were tied in knots around his skinny bones.
The canopy became his shroud, he hurtled to the ground.
And he ain't gonna jump no more.

The days he lived and loved and laughed kept running through his mind.
He thought about the girl back home, the one he left behind.
He thought about the medicos and wondered what they'd find.
And he ain't gonna jump no more.

The ambulance was on the spot, the jeeps were running wild.
The medics jumped and screamed with glee, rolled up their sleeves and smiled.
For it had been a week or more since last a 'chute had failed.
And he ain't gonna jump no more.

He hit the ground, the sound was "Splat," his blood went spurting high.
His comrades they were heard to say, "A helluva way to die."
He lay there rolling 'round in the welter of his gore.
And he ain't gonna jump no more.

There was blood upon the risers, there were brains upon the 'chute.
Intestines were a-dangling from his paratrooper suit.
He was a mess, they picked him up and poured him from his boots.
And he ain't gonna jump no more.
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Old 12-22-2006, 17:23   #2
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Still love it!!!
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Old 12-22-2006, 17:26   #3
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My lead instructor in HSJROTC taught us that one. great cadence.

Man I miss jumping.
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Old 12-22-2006, 18:57   #4
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So morbid! Don't let my wife see that one.
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Old 12-23-2006, 08:13   #5
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That'll get you out of bed in the morning.
Gotta love the dark humor.
Thanks!
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Old 12-23-2006, 08:22   #6
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That'll get you out of bed in the morning.
Gotta love the dark humor.
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It got me out of bed in the morning for a full month, back in the dark ages of my misspent youth. 42nd Co was so fun.
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Old 12-23-2006, 20:03   #7
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Going to show my age here, you youngsters call it "Airborne School", correct?

We called it "Jump School", early 60's. I still remember buying my first pair of "Corcoran, jump boots"!
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Old 12-24-2006, 07:09   #8
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Going to show my age here, you youngsters call it "Airborne School", correct?

We called it "Jump School", early 60's. I still remember buying my first pair of "Corcoran, jump boots"!

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'Unofficially' it will always be Jump School, but if you look back at your diploma/orders (has the parchment, or was it papyrus back then, held up well?) they'll Actually say: US Army Infantry Training Center, Fort Benning, Georgia - Basic Airborne Course - even mine from 1980 says that, although back in your day Wilbur and Orville were still flying the planes, right?
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Old 12-24-2006, 07:30   #9
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Yeah, but what company were you in?

43rd Company, July 1974.

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Old 12-24-2006, 07:46   #10
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Ahhh the memories....
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42nd Company February 1983

My diploma says "Airborne Course" (does not include the word Basic).

However, it will always be Jump School to me.
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Old 12-24-2006, 08:06   #11
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Ahhh the memories
I got to Ft Benning right at the start of the 4th of July weekend. The only zero week detail I pulled was out at the 250 ft towers on the 4th.

One of the towers was set up as a ride and had guide cables and a lift cable. A bench seat was suspended under a parachute. The lift cable would pull the seat up to the top of the tower and released. The drag of the lift cable and the parachute would make the riders come down fairly slowly along the guide cables.

I helped the riders into and out of the seat. When kids wanted to ride but the parents didn't I "had to" ride with the kids. Made many an up and down that weekend. Far more than I did at Tower Week.

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42nd Company Aug 1980 Have to dig for the Diploma, but I think 112 is right it says Airborne Course.
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The Army sure seems to think it is the Basic Airborne Course.

https://www.infantry.army.mil/airborne/airborne/

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Old 12-24-2006, 09:34   #14
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The Army sure seems to think it is the Basic Airborne Course.

https://www.infantry.army.mil/airborne/airborne/

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I called it "school" only because of our "civilian" readers. Otherwise I would have used "Basic Airborne Course".

(We're guilty of calling the MFF course Halo school....)

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I called it "school" only because of our "civilian" readers. Otherwise I would have used "Basic Airborne Course".

(We're guilty of calling the MFF course Halo school....)

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Roger, I have called it Jump School and Airborne School, just trying to inform others who seemed uncertain as to the current official title.

Still a great jody, BTW.

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