nndefense 4 #1 October 7, 2006 Anybody here jump with or visit with the Fort Polk Sport Parachute Club in 1969? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
namgrunt 0 #2 October 7, 2006 no but I did basic training in June 1967 C-2-2 was the unit ..59 YEARS,OVERWEIGHT,BALDIND,X-GRUNT LAST MIL. JUMP VIET-NAM(QUAN-TRI) www.dzmemories.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bozo 0 #3 October 7, 2006 Quoteno but I did basic training in June 1967 C-2-2 was the unit .. goddamn I thought I wuz old :o) bozo Pain is fleeting. Glory lasts forever. Chicks dig scars. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
steve1 5 #4 October 8, 2006 Quoteno but I did basic training in June 1967 C-2-2 was the unit .. I was in A-1-1 (basic training Company) at Polk in 1969. I don't know how my memory hung onto that. I wasn't a jumper then....Steve1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CDRINF 1 #5 October 10, 2006 That's a little before my time, but I helped re-start the Polk club in 1998. The Rucker club had just closed and we got their gear. It lasted a little while with us jumping on Honor Field before shutting down again when a new airfield commander bitched about providing aircraft support. CDR Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gemini 0 #6 October 14, 2006 Hey I was in A-1-1 too! but starting in Feb 67. Blue skies, Jim Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
steve1 5 #7 October 16, 2006 QuoteHey I was in A-1-1 too! but starting in Feb 67. Gemini, Did you ever have to low crawl up and down that hill when the drill sargents were pissed at everyone? It was just across the road from the company area. I still have scarrs on both knees from crawling up and down that damn place with a lunatic D.I. screaming in your ear. Gees talk about tiring. Back then it wasn't unusual to see a D.I. haul off and kick someone they didn't like. Later we moved across base to Tiger Land for infantry training. I was really really glad to leave that place....Steve1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BLee52 0 #8 October 16, 2006 D-1-1 1972 did not know there were clubs where you could just pay money and jump. did basic on south fort, infantry on north fort, then on to jump school at bening. THATS when I found out you didn't have to be in the army to jump. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nndefense 4 #9 October 18, 2006 Did you ever have to low crawl up and down that hill when the drill sargents were pissed at everyone? It was just across the road from the company area. I still have scarrs on both knees from crawling up and down that damn place with a lunatic D.I. screaming in your ear. Gees talk about tiring. Back then it wasn't unusual to see a D.I. haul off and kick someone they didn't like. *** They were still kicking ass in '69 and I was still crawlling that hill. Fact is, I low crawled just about everywhere in '69. Fortunately a certain Bird Colonel knew who I was as a jumper and I wound up running Ft. Polk SPC in '69/70 while I was there. I was the manager, pilot, jumpmaster and bartender. We drink enough beer to float a battleship. Great times!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nndefense 4 #10 October 18, 2006 At Polk in '69, we leased a C180 from Doc Fitch in Housten, and flew out of the AAF at Polk. The airfield commander there didn't like our senior officer, Col. Walde, and redlined all his a/c on the week-ends. We jumped on the main parade field at Polk, but mostly, we went to DeRidder on the week-ends and jumped there. Locals there probably have video tape of me doing shit with a 180 that the FAA would not be happy with. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
