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Justin Tyme
Feb 22, 2011


Zeris posted:

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/07/31/3311768/army-vip-culture-led-to-parachute.html

Some fat LTC died and ruined our officer privilege. This is worse than the fat LTC who ruined canned air for us in the aughts, I think. I don't know, I never jumped.

Why do GOs need steerable SPECIAL OPs parachutes? Don't their staff carry their 500lb bag of coins.

They're just round chutes with holes and flaps cut and sewn into them, they're not HALO aerofoils. Presumably it's because staff/command needs to be able to reliably not land in trees and way out on the opposite end of the DZ unlike Joe Grenadier.

That double standard always pissed me off, sustained airborne training is always conducted and as gay as it is it's a pretty big safety thing that these fucks always think they can skip because they've done it a million times and think it isn't a big deal. I can't imagine the jumpmaster on that plane got away scott-free since they would have to had known they were jumping MC-6s if they JMPI'd them and they should have known the minimum altitude and what altitude the plane was going to drop at- it's all stuff that gets briefed to everyone.

Justin Tyme fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Aug 1, 2014

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Justin Tyme
Feb 22, 2011


Ashmole posted:

I haven't posted here in a few months, so I'm going to just loving rant it out.

I'm about 2 months from leaving Korea and it can'tcome soon enough. I hate being here so.loving.much.so god drat motherfucking much. I can barely articulate it. The loving alerts, the loving curfew (oh don't get me started on that loving poo poo curfew), the random GO1's, courtesy patrol...all of it. gently caress.

And now my BC is making it mandatory (legal told him he can't do this) to FRIEND him on Facebook, like the unit's page, and like every post. He bullied all of the CO's into doing it and my CO is trying to hang the fact that he is my senior rater over our heads to make us do this.

God loving drat it.


gently caress.

holy poo poo loooooooool

you can friend him to satisfy their roster or whatever then immediately delete him/put him in some group that can't view your poo poo because you get no alert if someone unfriends you. unless he was actively checking (wtf) they would never know

Justin Tyme
Feb 22, 2011


wait... night jumping? so now Anansi went to Airborne School? :allears:

Justin Tyme
Feb 22, 2011


is it against 670-1 to get ACU tops tailored?

Justin Tyme
Feb 22, 2011


Gooble Gobble posted:

There was an active shooter at Ft. Lee today. I guess some female soldier had a gun and shot herself. She is apparently still alive though, which matches up with the skill I've witnessed from females at ranges before...

leaned too far back, only managed to graze her forehead

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