jackwallace

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  1. My girl friend has died. Now I ask one thing of you. If you smoke or ever smoked get a chest x-ray every year. If might save your life. Pass this on to anyone you know/meet. They tell people not to smoke, but don't tell you how to take care of yourself if you do.


  2. High: my entire life

    Low: Watching my girl friend die from cancer the last 2 months and there's not a fucking thing anyone can do about it.


  3. When I started to teach I thought I should go try the reserve toss deal. I took a T10 tied one toggle down to put me in a spin (well as good as possible with a T10). Grabbed the reserve and threw it down and into the spin. It ate me. I had reserve all over the place.  After that we changed to teaching the student to cut away. 

    I even tried the toss thing on another jump with the canopy in a paper grocery bag. Better but it still sucked.

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  4. I don't have a manual for it, but remember when I got one it said Pack in the usual manner. HUH? was my thought. You just flake it like a PC. I jumped one in a bag so can't help you with that sleeve. I don't remember them opening hard or anyone complaining about them other than they were kind of a slug.


  5. Just found out Lew died last night in his sleep. I think he was a member of Pieces of 8 ten man team back in the day.
    HYMM
    U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler.
    scr 316
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  6. A real Sky God gone. I knew him from S&A meets. He was my age but I thought of him as a kid. He had so much enthusiasm. He won the nationals at least twice, maybe more.
    HYMM
    U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler.
    scr 316

  7. rushmc

    ***On Thursday night, Trump called the guarantee of citizenship to babies born inside U.S. borders a “crazy, lunatic policy.”



    exactly! That is what he said. He didn't call the Fourteenth Amendment anything like that. Do you happen to know what year Birthright citizenship became the policy of the country? Because it's was not apart of the Amendments of this country back at the time the amendment was approved.

    Sensationalizing the way Bill did is no different than a lie. And that I guess you support

    I believe you could be wrong about this. My copy of the amendment:
    Amendment 14
    Section 1.

    All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
    U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler.
    scr 316

  8. Ground jalapenos or habinaros. Sprinkle along the wall, behind frig, etc, outside is even better if you can figure where they come in (notice the-they, there's no such thing as one mouse). They will walk in it, lick their paws and not return. You can check this, as I got the idea from a story about a zoo that did it to keep mice/rats out of their bird exhibit.
    I put it in my motorhome every year=no mice.
    And if you live where there are snakes , cut the grass short near the house, of the snakes will follow the mice in the house, then die in a wall, which stinks to high heaven.
    U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler.
    scr 316

  9. Remember to go to the James Brown Center of the universe bride in Steam Boat. If you have time go to Glenwood Springs, largest hot springs pool in the world, with bar service too.

    U can take US 36 instead of the Interstate. At least take it across Kansas. Lot of free camping in little towns. Geogaphic center of the lower 48.
    U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler.
    scr 316

  10. Ericakeeley

    Yes and yes :)



    Sounds like you got this sky divin ' thing figured out. Maybe now you can work on world peace.
    U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler.
    scr 316

  11. You can not apply to be a smoke jumper until you've spent at least 2 years, it could be more now, as a wild land fire fighter. Apply to the BLM.
    U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler.
    scr 316

  12. There is a web site called S.O.S. save our shoulders.
    U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler.
    scr 316

  13. There were a few inventive opening systems in the 70's. I used a strap sewn to one end cell. Wrap it around, put one line stow in and cram it in the container.
    Some pushed the slider up, had rubber bands on the line attachment points on the canopy and would stow a bit of line from each riser group to hold the slider up.
    That slider attached to the slider was called a pilot chute controlled slider, if I remember right. If would eat the center cell as it went through. I put a slip knot in mine just above the canopy to keep the slider up until I got full bridle extension and it would pop the knot. Yep it worked and yes everyone told me all the bad things that could happen.
    Worst thing we did was the nose deployment deal. I did it one day and thought my arm was going to fall off.
    U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler.
    scr 316

  14. Look on the fan/flywheel shroud. The model, serial number of the engine is usually stamped in it.
    U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler.
    scr 316