Sgt Nigel Rogoff PJI

How to reach you sir can I send message

Sir can you tell me what is the Baloon made up

You were lucky, we had to blow up the balloon first.

It is Hankley Common.

That has to be so much worse than jumping out of a plane.

My dad served in the 101st. 501st PIR. He told me they on occasion jumped from a hole in a balloon basket. After the war in Europe and after Bastogne he married my mom and they celebrated their honeymoon at Benning. He was training men for the invasion of Japan. When I enlisted in 1965 and volunteered Airborne. He called me a God damn fool. All the Way!

Health and safety wouldn't allow that now and believe it or not king Charles didctgivback in 1978

First done this 1976 weston on the green scarey but absolutely brilliant

I was a Balloon operator, on One Crew, and did the Parachute course in 1976. I completed 88 jumps and about 80 were from the Balloon. Those were great times.... It looks like Hankley Common?

As these lads aren’t jumping from a plane at a higher altitude going at a faster speed, does that mean their parachutes come up slower?

I meant hankley common

That looked like hankey common when I looked from the cage 1956

Glad I went straight to the herc

Brings back great memories hankley common

I never minded the balloon, some good lads on this and the memories flood back! :-)

If wasn't airborne, but I served in the army. As a physio now, looking at these videos I'm surprised there weren't more back and knee injuries. The speed at which they hit the deck is unreal.

Brings back memories

Did my last 2on hanckley common on 31st.march 1966 got demobbed a day later that made 56for my 6 years .stay cool boys.

I made 4 static line jumps while serving in an armoured TA unit, jumped from a Dragon Rapide at the APA Netheravon, brilliant experience.

Was on TA6/67 weather too bad for balloons. Qualified 7 jumps on aircraft then had two balloon drops. Terrifying after aircraft.

Hankley common 1989, 1 Para with Germans posted. Airborne 👊🏻🇬🇧

Brits need to bone up on plf s. Face as the third point of contact is not taught at Bragg. Lol.

Definitely Hankley common just outside the shot!! Brings back memories

knew a gentleman who fought in Tunisia, Italy and at the North end of the bridge who said the balloon jump was the most frightening thing he had ever done.

I knew a gentleman who fought in Tunisia, Italy and at the North end of the bridge who said the balloon jump was the most frightening thing he had ever done.

I almost fell out before given the GO! Weston on the green 1984

Second guy used his head to land 🤣 Can't imagine the silence in the balloon before the jump!

My grandad did that in TA at Aldershot in 63.

Eric not in tracksuit order? Rare as hen’s teeth, a sighting like that!

PJI dispatching 1 Para guys is Nigel Rogoff

oh yer baby 76-`78 ..airborne all the way.

When baby paras went to Guards depot 87/88 some of us did P coy... balloon jump scared the s### out of me.. Para boys were saying then , it could be the last year for balloon heaven...

Why did they get rid of the balloon?

Buckshee

Definitely Nige Rogoff PJI.

Loads of comments. To start, weren’t they taught anything before jumping. I didn’t see one decent landing. I was taught to pull the rigging lines , top first towards you whilst laying prone. Remember you are training as an army Para so tactics are important. You don’t want to be standing up before you’ve got your weapon from your bundle. I remember ballon jumps, 800ft 5 men jumping. Standing in the cage and looking over the side, the whistle of a breeze through the lines, on a quiet day you could hear the ant/people talking on the ground. I wasn’t the keenest parachutist but when the dispatcher asked whether I needed dispatching, I always prided myself on saying no, the jumping when he said when you’re ready. Lol

First did this in ‘75. Great memories.

Memories.Looks like Hankley to me, definitely not Weston on the Green.Balloon jumps,2nd was the worst;you knew what was coming.Up 6ft ,800 men jumping, remember the false laughing.Inmy day you did 8 jumps,2 balloon,1 night,1 with weapons container and the remainder from Hastings, Argosy, Beverley.The balloons where used for continuation jumps.BESTJUMP:- Beverley Boom at Tarhuna(Libya).Never a bad landing,no broken bones stropburns or twists,All for Queen and Country and 52/6d ( £2- 12- 6d) a week.Wished I'd stayed in(1960s) Cyclops 2RTR.

used to watch the balloon jumps on Wanstead flats E.London late 50's Air cadets would not let me ballon jump in the 60's at Abingdon/Benson, so went to Jenkings Farm Navestok came our at 3300 from a Percival Prentice fun days

The women’s auxiliary baloon corps! Baaaah!

Is that goose from top gun

Good luck mate. My best years

Wouldn’t want to jump out of that. Even the sky van looks better than this 😂 Passed PRAC though and on my way to depot soon hopefully after all this pandemic nonsense.

horrible

Definitely Hankley Common, stationed there for a few months on balloons between 1968/71. Happy days.

2 balloon jumps + 4 from a aircraft which included 2 night jumps to get jumps wings 16 OFP VETERAN

Balloon Jump was a good test of mettle...just getting in the cage and rising to 800 ft was hard enough.

i was all ways frightend off falling out before i was ment too.

Is this still part of training? If so I wasn't informed of this when I signed up.