AIRBORNE School!!!!!!

[Team Sergeant]

From the Team Sergeant to you "legs" attempting to graduate from Airborne School.

Instructions:

Go to the website below.

http://www.west-point.org/greimanj/w...ntherisers.htm

Turn up the volume on your speakers.

and sing along to the following: (oh and enjoy Airborne School )

Team Sergeant


Blood on the Risers


He was just a rookie trooper and he surely shook with fright.
He checked off his equipment and made sure his pack was tight.
He had to sit and listen to those awful engines roar.
You ain't gonna jump no more.

Chorus:
Gory, gory, what a hell of way to die.
Gory, gory, what a hell of way to die.
Gory, gory, what a hell of way to die.
He ain't gonna jump no more.

"Is everybody happy?" cried the sergeant looking up.
Our hero feebly answered, "Yes", and then they stood him up.
He jumped into the icy blast, his static line unhooked.
And he ain't gonna jump no more.

He counted long, he counted loud, he waited for the shock.
He felt the wind, he felt the cold, he felt the awful drop.
The silk from his reserve spilled out and wrapped around his legs. And he ain't gonna jump no more.

The risers swung around his neck, connectors cracked his dome.
Suspension lines were tied in knots around his skinny bones.
The canopy became his shroud, he hurtled to the ground.
And he ain't gonna jump no more.

The days he lived and loved and laughed kept running through his mind.
He thought about the girl back home, the one he left behind.
He thought about the medicos and wondered what they'd find.
And he ain't gonna jump no more.

The ambulance was on the spot, the jeeps were running wild.
The medics jumped and screamed with glee, rolled up their sleeves and smiled.
For it had been a week or more since last a 'chute had failed.
And he ain't gonna jump no more.

He hit the ground, the sound was "Splat," his blood went spurting high.
His comrades they were heard to say, "A helluva way to die."
He lay there rolling 'round in the welter of his gore.
And he ain't gonna jump no more.

There was blood upon the risers, there were brains upon the 'chute.
Intestines were a-dangling from his paratrooper suit.
He was a mess, they picked him up and poured him from his boots.
And he ain't gonna jump no more.

[x SF med]

Still love it!!!

[Jgood]

My lead instructor in HSJROTC taught us that one. great cadence.

Man I miss jumping.

[Hiclaude]

So morbid! Don't let my wife see that one.

[Warrior-Mentor]

That'll get you out of bed in the morning.
Gotta love the dark humor.
Thanks!

[x SF med]

Originally Posted by Warrior-Mentor

That'll get you out of bed in the morning.
Gotta love the dark humor.
Thanks!

It got me out of bed in the morning for a full month, back in the dark ages of my misspent youth. 42nd Co was so fun.

[CPTAUSRET]

Going to show my age here, you youngsters call it "Airborne School", correct?

We called it "Jump School", early 60's. I still remember buying my first pair of "Corcoran, jump boots"!

[x SF med]

Originally Posted by CPTAUSRET

Going to show my age here, you youngsters call it "Airborne School", correct?

We called it "Jump School", early 60's. I still remember buying my first pair of "Corcoran, jump boots"!

T-
'Unofficially' it will always be Jump School, but if you look back at your diploma/orders (has the parchment, or was it papyrus back then, held up well?) they'll Actually say: US Army Infantry Training Center, Fort Benning, Georgia - Basic Airborne Course - even mine from 1980 says that, although back in your day Wilbur and Orville were still flying the planes, right?

[Team Sergeant]

Originally Posted by CPTAUSRET

Going to show my age here, you youngsters call it "Airborne School", correct?

We called it "Jump School", early 60's. I still remember buying my first pair of "Corcoran, jump boots"!

Yeah and didn't you tell me you were in "1st Company" Basic Airborne Course?

TS

Originally Posted by CPTAUSRET

Going to show my age here, you youngsters call it "Airborne School", correct?

We called it "Jump School", early 60's. I still remember buying my first pair of "Corcoran, jump boots"!

Thats because we old farts didn't have the internet...I still have my 60's spit-shined Corcorans in the closet

[KSC]

My father was there to pin my wings, unfortunately his first set is long gone. I did the next best thing and had mine framed for him. Maybe one day I will get to know how it feels and reclaim my first wings from him for my son. MAYBE a while from now my two year old girl will grow to wear some wings... Hopefully I can talk her out of that.