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Old 01-16-2005, 20:51   #22
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Originally Posted by 504PIR
I heard a that Navy was going to set up its own static-line jump school, because they did not get enough through the Army. Which seems ludicrous to me. Besides how many combat jumps have the Navy done??
Probably about as many as most of us. It takes more than a small unit to qualify for a combat jump.

We might ask how many "combat jumps" were operationally sound and how many were staged for the status symbol?
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