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By The Armorer on October 15, 2010 | | Comments (15)
I'm sure North Carolina has penalties for blatant littering...

So, in the comments somewhere around here, Heartless Libertarian mentioned he was going to go earn himself some German jump wings.

So, HL - are you one of those bundles of self-loading/unloading cargo going all Hollywood in this picture?
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U.S. Army paratroopers exit a German C-160 aircraft over Sicily Drop Zone on Fort Bragg, N.C., Oct. 6, 2010, as part of Operation Federal Eagle during which more than 800 American paratroopers earned German jump wings. German jumpmasters aboard the aircraft supervised the jump. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod

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By Heartless Libertarian on October 15, 2010 8:16 AM
It is entirely possible.  Our jump was done from that aircraft, and I jumped on 6 Oct.

Fun jump, that's for sure.
 
By Boquisucio on October 15, 2010 8:21 AM
Isn't it a bit early to start hanging TREE ORNAMENTS?
 
By Raptor Chief on October 15, 2010 9:45 AM
Silly paratroops...Unless the aircraft is on fire, you're supposed to ride it in. All this jumping out of perfectly good aircraft just doesn't make any sense....
 
By John of Argghhh! on October 15, 2010 9:51 AM
Raptor Chief - depends on who's flying the damn thing.
 
By LittleRed1 on October 15, 2010 10:31 AM
 With all due respect John, my adopted grandfather says that it's a lot safer jumping out, now that the Germans are not shooting at skydivers. (He jumped Normandy, Market Garden, Wessel and was at Bastogne.) I'm still not convinced, though. Plus it might make my passengers nervous if I got out early.
 
By jim b on October 15, 2010 10:44 AM
I know a guy who got his German jump wings last year. He says that with a set of German jump wings and $5.00 you can get a cup of coffee almost nearly anywhere.
 
By Heartless Libertarian on October 15, 2010 11:41 AM
Actually, the jump I would most like to go on - one I would literally pay to be on - is the 6 June commemoration jump into Normandy.

Although I'd be perfectly happy to jump from a C130 or C17 vice a C47 - the location of the horizontal stabilizer  on the C47 gives me the willies.
 
By BillT on October 15, 2010 12:12 PM
You couldn't pay me enough to strap on a parachute and jump out of an airplane.

You can get *hurt* doing that, yanno......
 
By Heartless Libertarian on October 15, 2010 3:32 PM
Well, every now and then we do strap on our chutes and jump out of helicopters
 
By Lt. Alan D. Briley, RN on October 15, 2010 4:10 PM
 What HL said about helicopters!!! Sorry Unka Bill, but that was funny! (Huey jumps were the most fun, feet on the skid and sitting in the door, static line hooked up to the cable on the floor... and the 6-8 second count for the chute to deploy. (I MISS THOSE DAYS!!!)
 
By Mark Matis on October 15, 2010 4:16 PM
Look, "Heartless Libertarian", if you're gonna jump out of a plane, at least have some 'nads.  So your chute hangs on the horizontal stabilizer - BIG DEAL!  I thought jumpers were supposed ot be TOUGH!  All ya gotta do is be ready to run as soon as the plane touches down.  Hell, man - just pretend your DI is chasing you!  But with that in mind, be careful to not outrun the plane and get tangled up in the prop...
}:-]
 
By John of Argghhh! on October 15, 2010 5:11 PM
Heh.  I wouldn't put "scare quotes" around Heartless Lib's nick... 
 
By Justthisguy on October 16, 2010 3:11 PM
Heh. I maintain that my 11 sport jumps were arguably as risky for me as would be military jumps, because at the Huntsville Sport Parachute Club, we didn't have training.

What we had instead was "training."







 
By Raptor Chief on October 17, 2010 8:32 PM
As long as it isn't a fighter pilot or a chopper pilot, John. Those guys are nuts...I work with the former, and the latter have lost their minds.
 
By dagamore on October 18, 2010 1:32 AM
as long as the AF is doing the maint on the ploain, they are not perfectly good, they only have the range to get to the seen of the crash!