Nope actually easy and can walk better on the deck

ROBERT DEAN bummer.

Canopy sinks. Some/most training jumps they'll be collected by support staff, but in a real life scenerio they're sent to Davey Jones.

Navy would take too long to get there. Rescue planes there within minutes of touchdown. PJs on it more quickly. More timely, more efficient.❣

Combat Control: The red headed step children of Special Warfare. Wouldn’t want it any other way

EXACTLY 💯

JSOC PJ's at the very least have to level up with all of the above because they're required to be able to operate and fight with teams from all of those groups.

How is this in any way illegal, especially when the video has explicitly to do with NASA?

Becoming "Known" is when shit starts to go bad.

@@Incessuserro Yeah look at the "SEALS" they used to be a mystery, then all of the books and movies and now in some ways they have gone bad......

The UDT teams definitely did the rescues early on in the pace program, that is well documented. They handled all the recoveries from the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions. They became somewhat unnecessary when the shuttle program started since it recovered via a runway like a conventional airplane so they would’ve trained for a rescue mission should the astronauts have had to bail out. I’m assuming the Navy would still handle the rescue/recovery if it was far enough out to sea, however they appear to be right off the coast here so I think this would be appropriate “territory” so to speak for PJ’s to handle the rescue.

@@vtwinbuilder3129 I do remember always seeing Navy helicopters at that time so most likely you are right. And the Navy would have had ships further out for a Shuttle Rescue to but when it comes to "Rescue Swimmers" isn't that now more Coast Guard or Air Force PJ ? seems like now with the Navy their Divers are either "SEALS" , SWCC Teams or Salvage but not rescue?

Ted H. Actually the Navy has its own rescue swimmers as well that specialize in that a lot like the Coast Gaurd. AF Spec Ops guys have a lot of secondary jobs that aren’t advertised. For instance they saved people during hurricanes here stateside and abroad. Combat rescues are their bread and butter but they are rare.

He's tied on well!

I mean I guess if PJs we’re actually good at their job💀

SEALS are more trained. That's why they're the most elite fighters in our military

Food 2411 You sound stupid asf, Delta and Devgru are the elites

Food 2411 eh well if you’re talking about training in everything no. They specialize in what they do but they aren’t the most highly trained in everything. CAG,DEVGRU,RRC,and 24th STS are the best in the United States hands down.

The seals don't determine if Hollywood makes a movie or not.

no, they dont recover them.

They sink into the depths of the ocean, never to be seen again .

John Ratliff I usually work around the C-17 and C-5, but after spending all day on a C-130H the size difference was crazy. We parked next to a C-17 and that’s when I noticed how big it is after 3 years of working on them.

You should have seen us jumping parascuba out of the left side hatch of a HU-16B Albatross amphibian aircraft in 1968. That was the aircraft that PJs jumped for the Gemini VIII spacecraft when it landed in the Pacific after an in-flight emergency.

Mr. Ratliff, I sure would love to hear some of your stories. If you have any written, I would love to read. If there is nothing down on paper I would love to facilitate getting your stories recorded for history, so that they will never be forgotten. Far too many people let the past go unrecorded and lost forever. If you reply I will send you direct contact information. Hope to hear from you soon. Thank You and God Bless.

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