[froglegz]

ndd and tr thanks for the thread and everyone else for keeping it going. it has been a long time since i have heard a more spirited (although misguided) discussion.

now let's look at the sky guy....

abn board tested ram air parachutes in fall 1983 with what team as wind dummies.... oh thats right it was oda-754

the result was the eventual adoption of the rig you see here. brought to group in 86. used often and hard by who... again oda-754 (had the only two halo jm's in group at the time)

7th group team in early 86 did a stand-off over ocean water to football pitch on nw corner of granada (post bang, bang).. yep, oda-754

in 87 spent a week in pensacola again playing sky dudes where a young medic got his cornea lacerated by the bus driver goggles he could no be talked out of wearing.. hence the blind man stories of oda-754

now see what you have made me do... i have degenerated into a poorly remembered history of a team long ago forgotten....

let me get back to my original point... the black suit is heavy cotton and had a double zipper from ankle to neck. (still have one but it seems to have shrunken as the zippers won't come together). very functional and was the same worn by the knights of that era.

the o2 equip seems to be the updated xx version with the rear mounted bail-out. any helmet could be fitted with mounts and commo for a case or two of beer at pope's o2 shop. a more telling helmet would be the super grey individually molded af model in the next pic because the first two ever in group were on.... let me see.... what team was it..... maybe 754.... here i go again...