Hard to put a handle on that one, but maybe should have been, Aug "65, last jump of our Army Green Beret training. Jumped into the Pisgah mountains, western NC, for a 2 week training mission between our A-Team and another. Out of 22 jumps, like the two 5000 footers one day off the Pacific Ocean in Panama, this is one of a half dozen that are very vivid. Still picture it to this day, like my first jump at Benning....or the 5000 footers, the night jumps at Ft. Bragg, chopper jumps over Lake Gatun... I"m always a tailgater, rushed the sgt in front, chute opened and I found myself standing on his about 800 feet off the ground. Amazing how airborne training kicks in, ie, in 1965, they had 25 years experience in what could go wrong, literally taught us everything that could go wrong, like getting snagged alongside an aircraft, standing on another"s chute, now, my daughter is a paratrooper, and they have over 70 years of experience. On that Pisgah mountain jump, I had 3-4 seconds to decide which way to walk off his chute, fwd or back, before mine collapses. It is literally like standing on a big pillow, about thigh high. Yeah, BTDT, one time is enough! He is in no danger, and I can ride his down, but when he lands, he"s ok, I"m still 30 feet up when his collapses....my bones break, at the least, and I"m of no value to the mission. So I "walked" off to the SE, pulled a "slip", to drop faster and get away. We both landed ok, and finished the mission.
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