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LoudDan 0
All respect to those who SERVE.
Coming soon to a bowl of Wheaties near you!!
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Edited to add: BTW - EOD is Emergency Ordinance Disposal (Bomb Squad)
Explosive Ordinance Disposal
riddler 0
QuoteWonder if they'd consider hosting a boogie?
Now there's an idea! First annual NAVY boogie. Hosting jumpers on an aircraft carrier - take off the jumps plane (or helicopter) from the deck. The landing area is well defined! If you land off, it gives their water rescue units a chance to practice their skills.
turtlespeed 212
Maybe we can get Flyangel2 and Skreamer to spot for us.
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jumper03 0
QuoteMy baby brother is in the Navy (FMF HM1) and he jumped........he was serving with a USMC recon unit as a corpsman
Then I gladly offer to buy your baby brother a beer should we meet. The corpsmen took damn good care of us. When we rested during the long marches, they never did - always walking around tending broken marines. Same during the long exercises.
You used to get this book in boot camp - dunno if they still get it or not - that we called the Red Monster. It had all sorts of knowledge in it. Every so often it would have a CMOH citation and I distinctly remember that many of them were for corpsmen. I wish I could find one of those Red Monsters. I still have my green one
Wonderful people corpsmen are.
If they want to jump at taxpayer expense - let'em. I'd rather my tax money go to that than some staffer's g/f fake boobs.
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A "Nimitz" class CVN has a deck area around 1,000' X 200' The "boogie" would have to be restricted to folk who can consistently land in say 500' X 200', ideally within 50' of a target. Open canopy by say 4,000' (to cover any "iffy" spots). and an approach circuit to keep well clear of the emergency chopper.
Oh yeah... One other thing... Last lift is for folk on ultra fast canopies!
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The last lift is the one where they run the spinny things at the back and we see if "your" stilletto97 really IS faster than a CVN .
Mike.
Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable.
Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.
John
JohnnyD 0
QuoteA "Nimitz" class CVN has a deck area around 1,000' X 200' The "boogie" would have to be restricted to folk who can consistently land in say 500' X 200', ideally within 50' of a target. Open canopy by say 4,000' (to cover any "iffy" spots). and an approach circuit to keep well clear of the emergency chopper..
Not to mention the landing area will also be moving
There was a pretty cool Navy ad a few years ago that pictured a Seal walking off the LZ with the caption "If someone wrote a book about your life, would anyone want to read it?"
QuoteA "Nimitz" class CVN has a deck area around 1,000' X 200' The "boogie" would have to be restricted to folk who can consistently land in say 500' X 200', ideally within 50' of a target. Open canopy by say 4,000' (to cover any "iffy" spots). and an approach circuit to keep well clear of the emergency chopper..
No worse than some regular, everyday landing areas I've dealt with in the past. BSA peeps UNITE!
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Not to mention the landing area will also be moving
If the ship was moving into the wind, and you laid in a downwind swoop, you'd be SCA-REEEMING down that deck! Better catch that last arrest cable...
QuoteThere was a pretty cool Navy ad a few years ago that pictured a Seal walking off the LZ with the caption "If someone wrote a book about your life, would anyone want to read it?"
I don't want to have a "life story" that people will want to read, I want to have a "life story" that conservative Bible-thumpers will want pulled from the shelves!
Elvisio "packing my water flotation gear" Rodriguez
Edited to add: BTW - EOD is Emergency Ordinance Disposal (Bomb Squad)
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