Monday, August 15, 2011

Video through the eys of a paratrooper.

Also from David a link at Theospark.

3 comments:

Panther Main said...

Quite a few of us ol' former Paratroopers are Threepers......just sayin'

All the Way!

III

505th PIR

frosty2 said...

Just curious... Could any young paratroopers tell me about the chute used in the video. I started with T-10s when I got out we were using MC1-1s, that were steered with toggles. The fellow in the video, which I assume is fairly recent, is slipping his chute by pulling the riser, which seems like a step backwards. Can anyone enlighten me?

Jumper and Jumpmaster
frosty2

CorbinKale said...

No ruck, no weapon, yet the guy was saying, "Ranger, baby!" Maybe he was a 5 jump chump getting his refresher jump upon getting to his new unit.

To answer the question of steerable chutes, those are usually used for non mass tactical jumps.

When you have a mass tac, you don't want cowboys flying all over the dropzone and into each other. You want to get large numbers onto the ground, quickly, straight down with no mishaps. Steerable chutes make that impossible.

Another possibility is that this was an invitational/pay hurt jump to burn older packed chutes from the Rigger's inventory.