In 1975 or so we had a group of Belgian airborne soldiers come to Vicenza on an exchange with 1/509th ABCT. They brought along a lone female soldier who was quite pretty, airborne qualified and they were all going to make a helicopter jump out at VAAF on to Parson’s DZ. This was long, long before there were any sizable numbers of female airborne soldiers and most of us had never seen one with the exception of maybe a rigger or two. All sorts of speculation and yucking over who was going to do the JMPI especially the part with the squat! Can’t recall who did it but it was done with all the detached bedside manner of a doctor! Now an everyday occurrence but back then this was “shocking”!
i went in army i was 18 yrs never been close to an airplane 16 weeks army basic training then ft Benning ga jumped 2 times my 19 th birth day 6 weeeks later on a ship to pusan korea got out 55 ---had 23 jumps packed last chute i jumped got on a hardship dad killed i was a skinny kid 6 ft 130 lbs never regretted a min of it proud to be air borne
only saw 1 chute failure in 3 yrs 2mons 2days he had to use the reserve he almost hit me we jumped about 1500 ft he was the plane behind us he missed me about 50 ft chute was still on his back i watched him fall till i was about 1inch long he open the reserve he had to very near the ground his static line had to break for that to happen
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