I don't mean to be arrogant by saying this but imagine go pros existed in ww2. The footage they would have captured could have changed the war so much.
Tgf R shit well not drastically, but they had cameras set up on the drop boats for dday incase the invasion failed they could see what went wrong. So if they had POV cameras it would’ve allowed them to do a lot more research into areas they didn’t really know much about. Also would’ve given the people a glimpse into what war was really like. A lot of these young men signed up naively under false pre tenses that they’d be travelling the world and having fun not getting slaughtered by machine guns like sitting ducks.
After jumping out of C141s and C130s it was a big difference, we could actually do a good equipment check without being cramped up, and walk around the plane. The C17 actually had or still has beds near the cockpit for the crew.
For anyone asking why he didn’t get sucked out of the plane. They are a altitude of below 10,000 feet. If they were higher, that entire battalion would be gone
When we started jumping C-17As, it was night and day compared to a -141 or -130. Most of my jumps in 82nd (3-325 AIR) were -130 & later C-17A, night mass attack with Combat Equipment, T-10s.
LRRPFco52, What year were you in? I was 1/325 82nd ABN. '86 - '90 jumped mostly C130 Hercules and C141 Star lifter. once jumped C5 Galaxy. Got out in '90, got called back and sent to Germany in support of Desert Storm in Jan. of '91. AATW !
@@martinkerker1190 I got to Division in summer of 2000, (my 7th unit, 4th Airborne unit). I was there from 2000-2003, 3 years. All those WWII and Cold War-era barracks are torn down. They were tearing everything down when we got back from OIF1.
Your not kidding about C130 and C141 being like a sardines, with full combat equipment. 509th Inf (ABCT) A Co Vicenza, Italy 1982-83 Airborne All the Way.
@@Jarhead6820 If you dont lower your head, bad things happen :) Their chutes open almost instantly after they leave the aircraft, so there is an 'instant' jerk on their body as their drop is dragged to a halt as the chute opens. If they dont lower their heads as they go out the door that sudden jerk slams their head down towards their chest.. and depending on what they have strapped to their chest (such as the stock of an M4) their chin/face meets it like a ex-lover :D
They kind of look like those little plastic army men paratroopers when they’re in the sky, i used to always throw them off the balcony and watch it land on the street.
At night , they say tooth fairy come collect rotten stinky teeth’s. I am not sure it’s true or not but make sure you keep your twenty underneath your pillow tonight for shit and google bud
it could fir 1 chinook or 2 apaches inside and with the chinook it onlyhad and inch clearane from the roof of the plane and 2 inches from the walls of the plane
Pretty cool! I've jumped a few T10B as part of Charlie Co 2/325 back in the day when they wore a camouflage green. I guess that shows my age. Good to see the White Falcon's in action. "Let's Go" I'm proud of all of you, and I'd like to say thanks.
As an 82nd Airborne vet I appreciate the video. To really get a feel for what paratroopers do, find a mass tac night jump. I like watching these jump videos but watching a night jump when the soldier can't see the ground, doesn't know what is out there can really create a lot of anxiety in soldiers. Airborne all the way!
im 13 and both of my grandparents were in the military one was air force and the other navy and i want to be in the air force because when i watch you guys jump its very interesting and awesome to watch it and i want to do it some day
I was a year in a parachute artillary regiment (in Southern France).. I don't even know how to describe this.. The thought that got through my mind at these exact moments were always something close to "how the fuck did I get there".
I jumped a C119 a C130 and a C141. Also a Piper Cub. I jumped into Vieques Island with the 82nd Airborne Division. Long time ago. 173rd Vietnam, also. I like to watch these younger guys. They are every bit as good as it gets.
4:16 as soon as he stepped forward I started gagging and sweating...I can't do heights...let alone WILLINGLY jumping from an airplane...these guys got balls.
It looked like his parachute got caught and couldn’t open. He got really close to the ground before his chute really slowed him down. That’s at least what I saw.
Well the spinning was him trying to get the twists out of his risers. That’s why he was falling faster than the rest of his stick. Had a bad door exit or the plane was going a little to fast or both.....
It's been a long time since I jumped at Benning, 1974! Brings it all back. My 1st jump: big rips in chute, crossed up lines twirling me around....check my chute? What's that? Could hear the guy on the megaphone speakers (watching all us 1st timers from the ground) yelling up to us "the man with the malfunction, OPEN YOUR RESERVE!" over and over, until I thought, maybe that's me! I wondered why I was lower than all the guys who jumped in front of me. I think the whole stick popped their reserve chutes. Forgot my training, reserve plopped out & down and then lines wrapped my ankles, lifting me up by my feet. Came down butt first in (what use to be, anyway) this little creek running length-wise down the landing field!
My dad is crew chief on c-17 and it is really big my dad once flew with two Big Jeeps and when it is empty you can set up a full air mattress and there is still tons of room in there but it is loud inside it
the thing i like about this is, the chute deploys almost instant, so it might be similar to the initial feeling of jumping off something 10-15 feet before youre arrested by the chute? instead of actual sky diiving or freefalling.
