Thread: Our son's job from 10,000 ft...........

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Here's what our son has been doing over the last few months.
And of course on many occasions he was the first one jumping..joe

looked like Alaska!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!But you know, none of the times I was up there was the plane on fire or had lost both wings---

Congrats, I along with all my family members are very proud of our military people (wel theres some these days that are questionable)----our lack of a commander in chief might get fixed in a couple of months--------

Like Jerry, I never felt compelled to bail from a perfectly serviceable aircraft, but that set of jumps is pretty cool to watch.

WOW! Great video!!! To be young again and make just one more jump!!!! Oh well! Looks like some very rigorous training the guys have to go through these days!!!! Quite sure the training regimen has changed considerably since '68 when our school was simply called HALO school, it was new to the Air Force only 6 of us Para-Rescue in the whole class, our instructor probably had about 5 more jump then the rest of us but we all seemed to live through it anyway!!! Thinking back, it's really good to see these guys actually get some real training!!!!!

Thanks for the video Joe!!! Brought back some good memories!!!!

PS--Jerry, if you had to stay on the plane you missed all the fun!!!!!

I'm in the same plane as Jerry & Bob - flew a lot of back seat hours in the Navy, but never saw any reason to consider jumping out of a plane that was capable of getting me back to the ground in a controlled manner. But I admire those that enjoy that adrenalin rush of the jump, especially considering what they're often jumping into!!

I didn't miss any fun---in those years they paid me $3 a minute to get the passengers and plane safely on the ground----plus the view out the front windows----------

We tried to "convince" one of the Loadmasters to go with us out the back door one day!!!! Next time we jumped with that crew the Loadmaster had a crash axe in his hand before he opened the back door!!!!! I guess he preferred landing in the conventional manner, too!!!!

Nice, God Bless our Service men and women !

"Bless them all, bless them all, the long and the short and the tall, "

I have always held "para-troops", jumpers, if you will, in awe; I see jump wings on a guys chest, and my opinion of him goes up several notches. I have done a lot of things in my life that others think "crazy" or daring, but in my mind, they were just things that were necessary in getting my job done; jumpers are a whole different breed of cat, to my way of thinking.

One of the squadrons I was in in the Navy, my cubicle mate was our squadron Rigger, and as often happens, we became pretty good buds. He was also a "skydiver", a fairly rare type in the early sixties, and he convinced me that I should learn to jump out of an airplane. Well, I had gone through a basic form of jump training as part of basic aviation training; the thing was that if you were qualified to be Aircrew, you had to be familiar with the necessary skills to get out of a plane if you had to, but we didn't actually jump out of an airplane, we just jumped off of a tower, and from the top rafters of a blimp hanger 100 feet into a pool. So, I went through the skydive training, got rigged out, and went up for my first jump. I chickened out, didn't jump, stood in the door, looked down, and just sat back down. Somehow, the idea of getting out of that airplane before it was safely on the ground just didn't seem so exciting from several thousand feet up in the air. My friend never said anything derogatory, though, he said it took balls to not jump in that situation. It's a puzzle to me.

Originally Posted by Rrumbler

"Bless them all, bless them all, the long and the short and the tall, "

I have always held "para-troops", jumpers, if you will, in awe; I see jump wings on a guys chest, and my opinion of him goes up several notches. I have done a lot of things in my life that others think "crazy" or daring, but in my mind, they were just things that were necessary in getting my job done; jumpers are a whole different breed of cat, to my way of thinking.

One of the squadrons I was in in the Navy, my cubicle mate was our squadron Rigger, and as often happens, we became pretty good buds. He was also a "skydiver", a fairly rare type in the early sixties, and he convinced me that I should learn to jump out of an airplane. Well, I had gone through a basic form of jump training as part of basic aviation training; the thing was that if you were qualified to be Aircrew, you had to be familiar with the necessary skills to get out of a plane if you had to, but we didn't actually jump out of an airplane, we just jumped off of a tower, and from the top rafters of a blimp hanger 100 feet into a pool. So, I went through the skydive training, got rigged out, and went up for my first jump. I chickened out, didn't jump, stood in the door, looked down, and just sat back down. Somehow, the idea of getting out of that airplane before it was safely on the ground just didn't seem so exciting from several thousand feet up in the air. My friend never said anything derogatory, though, he said it took balls to not jump in that situation. It's a puzzle to me.

You climbed up 100 feet!! Enough Said!! Pete

Yep Jerry, it was in Alaska & just the week before he was in Hawaii doing some kind of water training. He says he's having a great time doing it all including the jumping. If you noticed at the beginning about .09 to .12 if you look at the lower part of the split screen you will see a Marine putting something in his pack & then as he walks away he kinda looks down at the camera, That's my boy. It's one of the several times I was able to pick him out in the crew. My butt got tight when I noticed at the end of the video they were up around 23,500 ft & jumping not a chance in hell folks.
He has told me that possibly by this May/June the 3 of them & Zac their Lab should be back in the states. That'll make this old beat up SOB very happy.....joe