Posted: 8/6/2006 4:08:35 PM EDT
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I know you will enjoy this....... Bad Exit video All the Way!!!! Edit: Pardon the Music |
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| Some of those were just terrible. Had a guy in front of me once who fell down and was sitting there on the platform. He looked around and then pushed himself off. I usually had good exits without twist but some guys would do some of that stuff in the vid. Why is the vid titles 82nd bad exits? Most of that footage looked like it was filmed in jump school. |
I noticed that too. Most people unkowingly attribute everything Airborne to the 82nd. That's fine. We are the heart of the Airborne community. I'll take the little bit of bad with all the good. |
Some of the inside the AC footage can be found HERE. Looks like a bunch of the other stuff came from test boards, like the ACE guys at Bragg or from the C-17 tests in Yuma. Hence the markings. Obviously some of it was from the "jump" video that has been around for ages. ETA: the vid on the AAS page is not anywhere close to the bad exits vid, it is all 130s-my bad. |
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I spent quite a few years at Bragg and participated as a jumper, Safety, or Jumpmaster in several Airborne Test Board jumps while my unit was on support cycle. After jumping they would show us the videos, some of them were pretty scary and resulted in the change to the exit procecedures from the C-130 in the 90's. The first test jump I did was during my first tour at Bragg in 1984 known as PAPRICA. Parachute Procedures in a Contaiminated Area. If you haven't jumped in MOPP 4 at Ft Bragg in July, you don't know what misery is. Its amazing no one was killed. No static line control, jumps cancelled due to people passing out on the plane from the heat, what a disaster. I'd like to know what friggin genious thought it might be be a good idea to jump into an area contaminated with chemicals in the first place and what idiots thought it would be a good idea to test it? Ah, memories. JD |
