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  3. drdiesel

    DZone Boise in Idaho and DZone Bozeman in Montana, both offer IAD instruction.



    And they have real high FJC retention. Rad crew. But I'm biased.
    - Harvey, BASE 1232
    TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA

    BLiNC Magazine Team Member

  5. Bumped into the PD guys from time to time at exit points. All good dudes. JT was a cool cat.

    Thoughts to the rest of the team, family and friends.

    - Grease
    - Harvey, BASE 1232
    TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA

    BLiNC Magazine Team Member

  6. 1992/3? Eloy. Turbine boogie. It was like $13 back then.

    Doing like a 12-way out of an otter with a crew from SD New Mexico. Another fairly new (<200 jumps) skydiver grabbed me and we decided since the breakoff was SO goddamn high (I was like 21 mind you...and an idiot) we should come together at do 2-way rw after breakoff. We'd breakoff the 2-way at a grand and all is good. Pulling lowish wasn't uncommon.

    I'm jumping a wonderhog with like a 170 BruiseAir and a round reserve. Leg-mounted PC. Never heard of an AAD.

    So fast forward to 1000'...I wave to breakoff and dudeman GRABS me in a bearhug. A tight one. I eventually wrench myself loose and now I'm back-to-earth.

    I flip over and have hella ground rush...I'm focused on a white paper sack next to some brush just about where the swoop pond is now.

    Can't find my leg-mount...it's twisted somewhere.

    Reach with both hands, find it, pitch...watch the bag getting closer, fast.

    had a 10-ish second canopy ride and burned in like a lawn dart.

    Brian Burke met me on the way in. I was done jumping that weekend.

    Been pulling high ever since. (It was another 14-15 years before I started BASE jumping.)
    - Harvey, BASE 1232
    TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA

    BLiNC Magazine Team Member

  15. K - Why the label doc? If you'd paid attention...you'd also identify many of my liberal opinions. That's where we differ. I'm not a hate-a-position-at-all-costs kinda guy. I think pot should be legal, gays should be able to marry, and organized religion is a sham. You just like taking shots because of that internal conflict about my profession. You have only one opinion on everything and no originality. Anyone on this board can predict what you'll say about any topic.

    If I have a question about material sciences - you'll be the first person I call.

    Quade - Slightly (ok very) disrespectful, and to be expected.

    Rem - Funny story related to that phrase, a bar, and a drunk blonde at a certain Marine Corps ball in the 90s. And painfully true. (it's door-gunner on the space shuttle, get it right)

    Ddude - we disagree. Impasse. But simply dismissing it as phooey shreds your position of higher logical ground. By definition, lack of flexibility is illogical.

    Edit: Let's drift this thread to another important topic...the 2011 BCS Champion Boise State Broncos. C'mon!
    - Harvey, BASE 1232
    TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA

    BLiNC Magazine Team Member

  16. No. What I'm saying is that the only facts you're relying on are Ritter, et.al.

    What I'm saying is that you WEREN'T. (Unless you were with 5th SFG or MARSOC, in which case I would wonder how this is all lost on you)

    You're totally discounting a very valid piece of the whole argument.

    But I'm tired of explaining it to you. Crack a book.

    Be open to the idea that Syria is and has been the 21st century tactical equivalent of Laos in from 66-75.

    Alas...we've drifted.

    Fact 1 - Ritter was a weapons inspector
    Fact 2 - Sorry quade, but he was a darling of the left
    Fact 3 - Cho Mo. Although I'm waiting for the "But he hasn't been convicted of anything" argument.

    I assert that his disregard for statute can be correlated to his motivations and thus his analyses in the past. Calling them into question.

    There are those who disagree. Good on ya.
    - Harvey, BASE 1232
    TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA

    BLiNC Magazine Team Member

  18. Yes, because opsec dictates I plaster shit like that all over an internet forum. Wow.

    Pointing out that you're inflexibility invalidates your position.

    Your obvious by-in to a single source explains why my posts are confounding you, so you get a pass.

    I will extend that you don't know me, or anything I have done, so another pass. Marg does - ask her.

    Ritter's arrest and pending trial speak to internal motivations. Those motivations can be drawn into a discussion of any decision he's ever made. Period. Marg disagrees with me here, and we'll probably have a fun back and forth off post about it. I respect her opinion.

    Google Mike Delong. Also a Marine Officer. And his clearance was probably a tad higher than mine or Marg's...which is saying something. But since his assessment doesn't match the left's - he's probably full of shit. So nevermind.
    - Harvey, BASE 1232
    TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA

    BLiNC Magazine Team Member

  21. Didn't even see her response in there! Had to go back and look.

    Love Marg to death, but (to some degree) disagree.

    I was in the Marine Corps. Knew a lot of dirtbag officers. That doesn't exempt one from bad analysis or bad decisions.

    It is nearly impossible to completely seperate and empirical analysis from the underlying psyche that conducts it.

    (Think Boeing exec who liked getting drilled by horses on the weekends)

    I personally question most of his findings based on his questionable financial ties during his tenure. As well as some shit I did in the region in the 90s. It is that same expectation of entitlement that makes him think it's ok for HIM to bang little kids.

    Sorry guys, but one brain is the common denominator. Ask Freud. So one degree of seperation.
    - Harvey, BASE 1232
    TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA

    BLiNC Magazine Team Member

  24. Quote

    While perhaps understandable, it's irrational to consider previous accomplishments invalidated due to unrelated subsequent actions.



    Yeah...to a lib. And it could easily be deduced that the very same internal motivation to position himself as he did back in 02-03 is the same that made him feel the need to bang a kid.

    Ergoooo....they are very related.

    Same as my republican darling example. Every one of the cases he prosecuted could and most likely should be brought under additional scrutiny.
    - Harvey, BASE 1232
    TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA

    BLiNC Magazine Team Member

  25. Lame dude...who the hell said the left was distancing themselves from him? That's my point - they're NOT. It's a denial of ever associating with him. But but...he's a republican! Cop out bullshit...and typical.

    The republicans distanced themselves from him in 03. When he was embraced by the left - did you even read anything or watch tv that year? I'm gonna go register democrat tomorrow dude. So I can say all my opinions are from a democrat.

    YOU are denying association by pointing him out as a republican. And again - validating my point.

    Repeat after me, "Yeah, we loved him, but man did he turn out to be a douche."
    - Harvey, BASE 1232
    TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA

    BLiNC Magazine Team Member