Viking

Still miss her.

LOL I still remember the frenzy that shit caused.

Thanx!!

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If it's banned during visitation who cares. Why would he want to spend his time jumping when he is supposed to be visiting his kid anyway?

This

She left one hell of a legacy!!

Boobies what?

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Unbelievable.

I know right! Who would have thought they would have taken an old fart like me in the Navy!

Three years, Arthur? Really? Where is the nearest toilet so I can stick your head in it?

lol missed you too Monkey!

Dude. No one wants you back. Well, maybe that little girl in the ice cream shop in the AZ desert. But no one else.

Hey I cant help it if she loved the red hair!!!

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Howdy yall. Aircrew Survival Equipmentman (PR). I Dont ship to Great Lakes for 7 Months so I have a lot of time on my hands to get ready.

Since my rating will have me around parachutes I figured its probly a good idea to get recurrent and back up to speed. I have a B license does anyone know where i can find the req's for getting current again after 3 years?

Thanks!

Would not try and get current on this (Pilot 188 ft 1.28 lbs/ft). Freefall skills comeback really quickly but canopy skills is almost like starting all over again.

Ya I had planned to start with a 230 and work my way back to my pilot. That thing needs a reline anyway bc I got it as a rental with 300+ jumps on it.

LOL Don't have a heart attack Diva!

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Howdy yall. Aircrew Survival Equipmentman (PR).

That sounds pretty cool.

are you a PR?

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Welcome back viking!

I'm a noob, so I hafta ask (if you don't mind sharing...) WHY would you ever leave this sport for three years!?

Its a long story with many twists and turns but the short...ish version is I was taking care of my grandma the whole time I was skydiving and around 3 years ago she got way worse and I just drifted away from the sport and into more important things.

She passed away at 99 1/2 May 2010. I have been trying to get into the Navy ever since and was about to sell my gear to help pay off my car before I go in when I got my very parachute related Navy Job. So here I is.

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Unbelievable.

I know right! Who would have thought they would have taken an old fart like me in the Navy!

Three years, Arthur? Really? Where is the nearest toilet so I can stick your head in it?

lol missed you too Monkey!

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Unbelievable.

I know right! Who would have thought they would have taken an old fart like me in the Navy!

Howdy yall. Aircrew Survival Equipmentman (PR). I Dont ship to Great Lakes for 7 Months so I have a lot of time on my hands to get ready.

Since my rating will have me around parachutes I figured its probly a good idea to get recurrent and back up to speed. I have a B license does anyone know where i can find the req's for getting current again after 3 years?

Thanks!

My only real question right now is if the AW rate is commonly closed. If its not how would i go about getting signed orders for that A school after Great Lakes. I like going into a conversation like this with a good chunk of my research done.

Edit: Max i don't think we ever jumped together but i do remember hanging out in Perris i think.

Jt for jobs that require flight status its 28. Thats what the air force recruiter said. She didn't even try to steer me into something else. I was kinda shocked.

Nanook so far I've just talked to the recruiter. Havn't signed anything as of yet. And ya i'm 6'3" so i'm sure my rack on ship will be tight.

hahaha Jeanne I'm too old for the Air Force. I will have to go through SERE school if i get the Aircrewman rate i want.

Hey Lou Ya i remember the good ol days when every women was "Threatening" to teach me a few things. lol

The Submarine thing is just a backup in case I cant get into Aircrew school. But i have to agree on them being a weird bunch. The one guy i have met who is a nuke is........unique. lol

Thats a damn shame the dz.com crew isn't as close as it used to be!! That was one of the things that kept me going to eloy. But i havn't jumped in over two years so i'm sure alot has changed all over.

Howdy yall. Just thought I'd drop by to update everyone thats still here that remembers me.

As some of you know i dedicated my 20's to taking care of my grandmother Helen. Sadly she passed away the morning of May 7th with her family around her bed side. She was 99 when she lost her fight with pneumonia.

With my last duties as a proud grandson completed I decided to shift my aim towards my life. I have plans to join the Navy (despite just turning 30) in the next 4-5 months. I'm aiming for the AW rate (Naval Aircrewman). If i can't get a slot in that school i'll go Submarines.

For those of you that know me. Thanks for the well wishs over the years! For the new people that dont know me. Howdy! and Blue Skies!

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I Must agree, far too many people use the emergency room as their primary health care. Alot of those do it because they cannot refuse to treat you.

They use it b/c they don't have a normal doctor and have medicare so they usually don't pay shit.

I see it allllll the time at work.

I only wish she could make me laugh right now. I really fuckin need it.

you know damn well speed racer that i ment nuking DPRK.

I don't think we have the stones for it.

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Perhaps they would like to establish their own satellite phone network, so that they do not need to rely on other countries for communications.

Thats fine. If they had gone to the international community and said "We would like to put out own Com Sat in orbit" Pretty sure it would have gotten done for alot less money that what was spent designing and building this Missile system.

If all they wanted was to put a satellite in orbit there are cheaper ways than to build your own missile.

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Wow. I didn't realize you had a source of information high in the North Korean government. That's impressive. Are they still going to keep you in the loop after you give out their secrets on a skydiving forum?

Hahaha so your not going to deny that there actions of were reckless? They did three things that screem "I don't care and i'll do what i damn well please.

1. Launching the missile knowing it was going over another country.
2. Not informing Japan of the exact flight path so they can be prepared if the worst happens.
3. Didn't make any effort what so ever to assure that that the missile went over only water.

Don't have to have Kim Jonh Il on speed dial to think for yourself and figure it out.

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Or maybe they feel that a Mutually Assured Destruction strategy is their best chance of not being invaded by the US for some trumped up reason

More than likely i'm sure thats gone through there heads. But if thats the truth then this idea of using the design only to launch a satellite is complete bullshit.

If thats the case then you just know that Iran with all its oil money and hatred of the west will be in the check out line.

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Does it scare the hell out of you that the US utilizes technology that could be used for less than benevolent purposes? There's very little technology that could not be used to further bad intentions. That's no reason to withhold technology from developing nations or make other attempts to keep them from developing such technologies themselves.

Nope it doesn't. We do our best to keep track of things that could be used to build weapons of mass destruction.

Giving tech to developing countries is fine. But when that country and the people that supply them start talking about wiping a country off the map (Israel) thats where the problems start.

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Or even launching a communications satellite -- oh, the horror!

I will respond to this with one question.

With the current leader of that country do you trust Iran with a Missile capable of reaching Iceland?

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Remind us again which countries have used nuclear weapons on civilian populations. Surely a country that has demonstrated their willingness to take such actions should not be allowed to have nuclear weapons, right?

We used the bomb to end a World War that we didn't start. The issue here is the possibility that the bomb could be used to start one.

The argument on if the bomb should have been used or not is a different thread.

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Do you really think that a missile is the only delivery mechanism for a nuclear attack? The best defensive policy for the US is to attempt to improve relations with our current enemies while actively trying to not create new ones.

Oh certainly not! You could drive the thing to your target in a truck if you could get it past all the border crossing. You could use a long range bomber to do it. But a Long Range missile is easiest way to deliver that payload in the shortest amount of time.

Ya lets talk to them. That got a lot done when we asked nicely Please don't make an atomic bomb. Did a hell of a lot when we asked them not to build an LRBM.

If all you do is talk then when its time to act or react as the case may be then your standing there with your thumb up your ass.

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So how bad do you think the debt will be if they decide to vaporize a city?

Do you think the North Koreans are unable to imagine what would happen to them if they tried that?

Do you think we have the stones to respond in kind? I wonder how South Korea would react. Probly with invasion. China would back North Korea we would back the south and two super powers go Toe to Toe over the Korea Peninsula.......again.

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Waste even more taxpayer money? We're already over $10 trillion in debt.

So how bad do you think the debt will be if they decide to vaporize a city? That missile if 100% operational is design to reach far enough to hit Alaska.

That means around a 3500 mile range. A launch from the DPRK could reach Alaska and almost Pearl Harbor. Whats even worse is that a launch from north western Iran could go as far as Iceland.

How do you think the world market would react if Paris, Berlin, or London disappeared under a mushroom cloud? How bad would the debt get then?