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The German chutes have arctic covers over the canopy release assemblies. Little tricky trying to pull one quickly when needed. I'm sure the Russians are the same.
Latvia issues a large dull butter knife to cut your main, and then pull your reserve.
Have made multiple PLFs on a couple of jumps... nothing like landing with the wind with an MC4, pulling your brakes, and realizing that nothing happened and you're going about 30 knots. Railroad tracks hurt when you hit them on PLF#9 of 20.
We seized Roosevelt Roads during Ocean Venture 1990. As we exited the planes at 0100, they shut the lights off on the airfield. So in addition to the 26 knot wind, we're all night blind and just crashing into and onto everything. Including a few landings on top of C-130s, guys getting drug face down on the runway (unable to get to his canopy release), and about 100 injuries in the Bn. Luckily I got tangled up in the Airfield Code Letter on the lead edge, and able to get free of my parachute. But we still put on the show for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, who was there to see us conduct the mission.
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