01-08-2007, 15:04
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COL Jack, the Horror!!!! You were a leg Ranger!!! 
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01-08-2007, 15:07
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Very cool picture, Colonel.
Beats me why you guys want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. Must be an acquired taste. 
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Evidently you have never flown with some of the pilots I have
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01-08-2007, 15:13
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GOOD ANSWER!
Fookin Aviators!
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01-08-2007, 15:13
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And didn't the frigging black hats remind us of that. Now remember I am not short, just wound up tight and from day one it was "Little Ranger this and Little Ranger that". It got to the point that the other 14 "leg rangers" that came over from the Ranger course to the Airborne course decided to hold an attitude adjustment phase and dragged the black hats into the showers with us and rolled them around in the sawdust so they were as nasty as were we. We did pay for it by doing the bear walk around the track until they realized that they were not going to break us. The final payback they attempted were blood wings for the lot of us-but actually we all took it as a compliment and a rite of passage. Then we were dumb ass 2Lts-what did we know
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01-08-2007, 15:18
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And didn't the frigging black hats remind us of that. Now remember I am not short, just wound up tight and from day one it was "Little Ranger this and Little Ranger that". It got to the point that the other 14 "leg rangers" that came over from the Ranger course to the Airborne course decided to hold an attitude adjustment phase and dragged the black hats into the showers with us and rolled them around in the sawdust so they were as nasty as were we. We did pay for it by doing the bear walk around the track until they realized that they were not going to break us. The final payback they attempted were blood wings for the lot of us-but actually we all took it as a compliment and a rite of passage. Then we were dumb ass 2Lts-what did we know |
Good old days!
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01-08-2007, 15:18
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I remember being more frieghtened at the "UMGAWA" tower than the actual jumps from the bird. Too much time being raised and then the Blackhats let you hang up there to get a good look out over the state of Georgia
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01-08-2007, 15:26
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Good old days!
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You know, you are absolutely right! Wish the bunch I knew back then were around today. Unfortunately there are a lot of vacancies in the stick but if I close my eyes I can see them all and still smell the mixture of JP4, chaffed nylon, mildewed kit bags, and a faint hint of someone's rejected creamed beef that should have been eaten for breakfast.
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01-08-2007, 15:41
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I still have my picture just like that (but it's in color). LOL
I had birth control glasses on...
Thanks for sharing Sir.
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01-08-2007, 15:53
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You know, you are absolutely right! Wish the bunch I knew back then were around today. Unfortunately there are a lot of vacancies in the stick but if I close my eyes I can see them all and still smell the mixture of JP4, chaffed nylon, mildewed kit bags, and a faint hint of someone's rejected creamed beef that should have been eaten for breakfast.
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We lost some of our best and brightest, during, and shortly after that timeframe...
Excellent description, brings it all back!
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01-08-2007, 16:10
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I still have my picture just like that (but it's in color). LOL
I had birth control glasses on...
Thanks for sharing Sir.
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Hmmmmmm...... I have the Class Book at home, you were E-what? I'll find you, get it scanned and we'll see what the pre adult NDD looked like - with appropriate PERSEC and OPSEC. This coud be fun, unless you were in the 42nd Co rotation before mine.... then I'm SOL.
Isn't it amazing that there are certain things that just stick in your memory - ABN being one of them?
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In the business of war, there is no invariable stategic advantage (shih) which can be relied upon at all times.
Sun-Tzu, "The Art of Warfare"
Hearing, I forget. Seeing, I remember. Writing (doing), I understand. Chinese Proverb
Too many people are looking for a magic bullet. As always, shot placement is the key. ~TR
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01-08-2007, 16:44
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AIRBORNE School!!!!!!
Nothing like being in jump school with half of that year West Point class!!!
Will the man with 7 holes in his canopy pull your reserve, 40+ plus men checking their canopy.
BMT
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01-08-2007, 16:55
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Great Picture Col! I don't think I ever got one.
At the end of Airborne school some of us were "hurried" to our next assignment. Seems some butthole named Idi Amin Dada, (who became known as the 'Butcher of Uganda' for his brutal, despotic rule whilst president of Uganda in the 1970s) wanted to start a fight and we were told we were going to stop him.  Fastest inprocessing I ever did! My sixth jump was "almost" a combat jump!
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01-08-2007, 19:34
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Hmmmmmm...... I have the Class Book at home, you were E-what? I'll find you, get it scanned and we'll see what the pre adult NDD looked like -
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The book must be in my storage unit, I'll find it and see if NDD was in the same class as me. After SHOT.
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In the business of war, there is no invariable stategic advantage (shih) which can be relied upon at all times.
Sun-Tzu, "The Art of Warfare"
Hearing, I forget. Seeing, I remember. Writing (doing), I understand. Chinese Proverb
Too many people are looking for a magic bullet. As always, shot placement is the key. ~TR
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01-08-2007, 19:58
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I still have my picture just like that (but it's in color). LOL.
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Color film hadn't been invented when I went thru
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01-09-2007, 09:01
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Nothing like being in jump school with half of that year West Point class!!!
Will the man with 7 holes in his canopy pull your reserve, 40+ plus men checking their canopy.
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There were quite a few cadets in my class as well. We insisted the "C" on their ballistic helmet was for civillian instead of cadet. We always had to make up for their lack of motivation during cadence calling.
My diploma is a little misleading, it says "Airborne Course" while we all know the official title is Basic Airborne Course, and it's so new (compared to some) the ink might still be wet. It's still commonly referred to as both Jump School as well as Airborne School.
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