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**The Reaper** · 05-02-2004, 08:15

Static Line on the Battlefield at Gettysburg, PA.

Jumping over Siena, Italy with the Italian Parachute Brigade CG.

Jumping Stroessner International Airport with Paraguayans who had been issued either steel helmets, or liners, but not both. They tied them on with 80lb. test they borrowed from our riggers. They were using paper clips or strands of stripped electrical wire as safety wire on the static line snap hooks. Most of them were under 100 lbs., we later found out that some of them were as young as 13 and had never actually jumped before.

HALO from the ramp of a C-141B over Grenada, postage stamp Drop Zone between the ocean and the mountains, with a parallel active highway and power lines for added excitement, 135 lb. ruck and a total of over 200 lbs. of gear strapped to each swinging Richard, finally break through the overcast to see the DZ at about 2,000 ft., yelling to the JM (the Team Sergeant), "screw it, lets go for it!" Discovering that Team Sergeants are pretty smart guys when he gives us the "No Jump" signal.

HALO train-up with the Golden Knights, where they ask us what kind of rigs we have (MC-3 with chest mounted reserve), and then telling us they saw one in a museum once. Also asking about us jumping rucks (what are those for?) and we had to explain why you would want to have a ruck upon arrival.

Any jump with Gary O. on board.

TR

05-02-2004, 08:15	#7
The Reaper Quiet Professional Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Free Pineland Posts: 24,827	Static Line on the Battlefield at Gettysburg, PA. Jumping over Siena, Italy with the Italian Parachute Brigade CG. Jumping Stroessner International Airport with Paraguayans who had been issued either steel helmets, or liners, but not both. They tied them on with 80lb. test they borrowed from our riggers. They were using paper clips or strands of stripped electrical wire as safety wire on the static line snap hooks. Most of them were under 100 lbs., we later found out that some of them were as young as 13 and had never actually jumped before. HALO from the ramp of a C-141B over Grenada, postage stamp Drop Zone between the ocean and the mountains, with a parallel active highway and power lines for added excitement, 135 lb. ruck and a total of over 200 lbs. of gear strapped to each swinging Richard, finally break through the overcast to see the DZ at about 2,000 ft., yelling to the JM (the Team Sergeant), "screw it, lets go for it!" Discovering that Team Sergeants are pretty smart guys when he gives us the "No Jump" signal. HALO train-up with the Golden Knights, where they ask us what kind of rigs we have (MC-3 with chest mounted reserve), and then telling us they saw one in a museum once. Also asking about us jumping rucks (what are those for?) and we had to explain why you would want to have a ruck upon arrival. Any jump with Gary O. on board. TR __________________ "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910 De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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