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- September 26th, 2013, 8:16 pm
- Forum: Good Humor Popsicle Zone
- Topic: Twisted risers
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Twisted risers
It was my first chopper blast. When my parachute opened I was upside down and had my foot all tangled up in my suspension line above one of my risers. I'm looking up at the ground and down at my canopy. Thank God it was a day jump or I really would have freaked out. I looked around at every one else...
- September 25th, 2013, 9:44 pm
- Forum: The Mosh Pit
- Topic: Towed Jumper.
- Replies: 10
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Towed Jumper.
Back during the Grenada invasion a rumor was going around Ft. Bragg that the 75th had a towed jumper when they jumped in. The roomer was that for some reason we didn't understand, the jump master climbed out of the plane in flight, and grabbed the towed ranger and drug him back in the plane with him...
- September 25th, 2013, 8:15 pm
- Forum: Introductions - Rangers, Veterans, Ranger Wives/Parents
- Topic: Introduction-dan
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3027
Re: Introduction-dan
Says I'm not qualified to read that forum.Jim wrote:look here:
http://www.armyranger.com/bb/viewtopic. ... d9#p737756
- September 25th, 2013, 6:05 pm
- Forum: Introductions - Rangers, Veterans, Ranger Wives/Parents
- Topic: Introduction-dan
- Replies: 6
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Re: Introduction-dan
When and where is it at?Jim wrote:Welcome, Dan. Are you planning to go to the Grenada get together later this year?
- September 25th, 2013, 2:45 pm
- Forum: Introductions - Rangers, Veterans, Ranger Wives/Parents
- Topic: Introduction-dan
- Replies: 6
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Introduction-dan
Hello fellow paratroopers; I enlisted 1982, boot camp Ft. Jackson, jump school Ft. Benning, parachute rigger school at Ft. Lee, then to E. company 407, 82nd Airborne Division. Honorably discharged in 1985. During the Grenada invasion I was one of a 25 man detail of riggers who were taken down to whe...