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<blockquote data-quote="Calman" data-source="post: 918434" data-attributes="member: 3341"><p>Cal, there was plenty of times I told myself that same phrase. Especially on a night jump. I thought I was an idiot for choosing AB the first time I climed the tower at Benning, and the 2nd time, 3rd time and every time after that. I thought I was a bigger idiot learning fastrope techniques with the 101st in Air Assault school. For some reason sliding out of a perfectly good helo on a rope scared me more than bailing out of a C130.</p></blockquote><p></p><p> :lol: No what ya mean Hoss.There was no sure thing your shute would open.And those towers looked to be 1000ft tall and even taller when looking down. I was scared for about 8to 10 seconds every jump I made.I guess that was the excitement of jumping,the rush when you left the plane.</p><p>The real scarey part was being lifted out of the jungle by those ropes when they didn't have a clearing to set the slick down.Puts a whole new meaning to tarzan. :nod: Saved my bacon a couple times though. It would take a whole platoon of men to pry me loose from a plane in flight now. :lol: In jump school our jump Sgt. told us if our shute faled to open ,when we hit the ground,go to sears and get a good one.</p><p></p><p>Cal</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Calman, post: 918434, member: 3341"] Cal, there was plenty of times I told myself that same phrase. Especially on a night jump. I thought I was an idiot for choosing AB the first time I climed the tower at Benning, and the 2nd time, 3rd time and every time after that. I thought I was a bigger idiot learning fastrope techniques with the 101st in Air Assault school. For some reason sliding out of a perfectly good helo on a rope scared me more than bailing out of a C130.[/quote] :lol: No what ya mean Hoss.There was no sure thing your shute would open.And those towers looked to be 1000ft tall and even taller when looking down. I was scared for about 8to 10 seconds every jump I made.I guess that was the excitement of jumping,the rush when you left the plane. The real scarey part was being lifted out of the jungle by those ropes when they didn't have a clearing to set the slick down.Puts a whole new meaning to tarzan. :nod: Saved my bacon a couple times though. It would take a whole platoon of men to pry me loose from a plane in flight now. :lol: In jump school our jump Sgt. told us if our shute faled to open ,when we hit the ground,go to sears and get a good one. Cal [/QUOTE]
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