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@mikethemechanic73952 жыл бұрын
Went though in Dec 94. Was stationed right after at Benning. Used to climb up the 250ft towers and have beers in the aircraft on the ground on ground week. Would walk to the motor pool and yell Airborne at the 34 foot towers… Airborne was my favorite Army school!
@jakemcarthur766511 жыл бұрын
My math teacher was an ex-US Army Captain in Infantry and went to jump school. We asked him what it was like and he ended up describing the whole process and jumped off of his desk and rolled like he was landing with a parachute in the middle of class.
@JoJo-lj6kk5 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a great math teacher to me
@VinhPham-hz8ny4 жыл бұрын
lol sound like airborne to me
@msd13784 жыл бұрын
The dude is a MATHEMATICIAN and he choose to serve the country ... THATS A PATRIOT ❤
@killianmiles40034 жыл бұрын
Late reply but “O, captain my captain”
@bradfordreece17683 жыл бұрын
Ft. Benning, August, 1966, hot as hell, mosquitos as big as your fist, kill one of them at your own peril. They had wings and you didn't. TAC, NCOS (training Sgts). They had biceps as big as your head with waist like Twiggy. Double time every where until wings were pined on your chest, no walking was allowed. Your were never allowed to stand still. If it was not double time it was push-ups. No slack in the barracks. Fire and flood was the game. Fire, everybody on the floor, flood, everyone on the top bunk. No day off, 21 days of hell. Out of each 100 that entered the school, 35 to 40 were busted out. TACS said, "A paratrooper is lean and mean". No problem making us mean. I thought the TACS job was to instruct how to get through the school and quickly learned it was to bust you out. 1st Bde, 101st ABN, Viet-Nam, class of '66-67', the best damn trigger pullers in the business.
@skyleranthonijsz33058 жыл бұрын
You know it's dated when you see BDU's.
@SpoonySkink8 жыл бұрын
lol
@treshiggins66077 жыл бұрын
Skyler Anthonijsz those are acu's buddy
@VIKINGHUN3 жыл бұрын
LOL- I wore olive drabs....
@briannotafan33685 жыл бұрын
when you get those wings it was worth it your the toughest sob in the world
@chrisspeyrer33283 жыл бұрын
So glad I didn’t have to jump the 250 foot tower. That shit scared me much more than an actual aircraft!
@thomashenderson13313 жыл бұрын
Went through Jump School May 1969. Looks identical to this film. The more things change, the more they remain the same. AATW!
@VWGliMk212 жыл бұрын
doing army rotc then hopefully going to get a chance to attend airborne school between my junior and senior year. been a dream of mine for years.
@gerrystarchild3 жыл бұрын
Great memories for me .Jump school was a breeze for me. Just finished 8 weeks of basic training and 13 weeks advanced Infantry training. Jump school was a cake walk.
@mc.98393 жыл бұрын
Easy school. I never did the 250 ft tower. They had two trainees get hung up while in the air during my class. The 'chute didn't release correctly and wrapped around one of them. They were able to lower him to the ground hanging off of one hook. The other broke loose but his shoot miraculously opened though he was all tangled for a second. Good thing they cancelled as you couldn't have paid me to take that ride on that day. lol Jump week went fine. Good times.
@scottfuller51943 жыл бұрын
Those trees DO run right out in front of you and then stop right in the middle of your intended point of landing......happened to me several times in my 534 jumps.....hung up and had to untangle my main and then climb down carefully as the swine still tried to foul me up......then lower my ruck and rifle and snowshoes ahead of me ! There was no life like it.....it was a big joke to my fellow jumpers me coming down those 80 to 125 foot trees with my name of Fuller.....I was then called a “Fuller-Feller”.....which as a DFL newly minted Lieutenant, stuck with me til this very day.....wish I’d had a chainsaw instead of my kit....!
@anony886 жыл бұрын
I did jump school two months prior to this video.. February 2010
@jakemcarthur766511 жыл бұрын
He wasn't a colonel, he was a captain. I know he served for the 75th Rangers as a Captain before retiring.
@CRAZYHORSE196820033 жыл бұрын
Did thin in 91, we got to jump three times from the 250 foot tower if I remember correctly. The scariest moment is when you first leave the ground. By the time you make it to the top you are calm again lol.
@Bane03X11 жыл бұрын
Damn that looks fun
@skrmnghrd45203 жыл бұрын
doing this shit next week
@Wysiwyg4312 жыл бұрын
Ahhhh, memories....... Tower Week 1990~ where my physical met my spiritual *WTF* O_O
@lawrenceofarabia84565 жыл бұрын
My bag, swing landing trainer for the all Ft Benning military grammar police authority out there!!!
@SavageJPxx13 жыл бұрын
Man, I can't wait. I'd be a kid in a candy store down there :D
@nimmawibba98745 жыл бұрын
you are an aDULT sAvAgE come home
@th0mAs949212 жыл бұрын
This looks fun
@ARM_DM12 жыл бұрын
do these reporters memorize a script before being live? at least that's what it sounds like
@joesmo23838 жыл бұрын
we had a girl get blown into the tower and her chute got entangled. we ended up tying a sgt airborne to the lift with 2 ropes attached to him, then we pulled the ropes around each side of the tower and pulled him to her, he secured her to himself and then they lowered them both to the ground. crazy days....AIRBORNE!!!
@mmartinez41344 жыл бұрын
I been waiting for a long long time to get my feet off the ground air borne, it's not just a job it's an adventure! HOOAH TROOPS!
@GhostSpider17412 жыл бұрын
I'm thinking the same. I'm really having a difficult time deciding on Marine Corps or Army though...
@waylonpatterson28084 жыл бұрын
well, which one did you choose?
@Neptune88 жыл бұрын
what mos does airborne go under , still researching what mos is right for me(im actually afraid of heights )
@alicelong36132 жыл бұрын
You dont have to go airborne, it's usually the combat guys
@jorgetadeusilvagomes9794 Жыл бұрын
Too Volunteer Civil Air Patrol from Brasil
@23hukia10 жыл бұрын
He's definitely a colonel sir
@maishathomas8619 жыл бұрын
Lieutenant Colonel and Command Sergeant Major
@Igotcha0612 жыл бұрын
Is common that soldiers break there ankles and other bones?
@thesoldier122312 жыл бұрын
o hell yea i feel you on that bro cant wait
@Howie051310 жыл бұрын
I plan on goin airborne after ait my mos is 92G and I'm active duty i wanna at least do something in combat
@Zdjiugbr12410 жыл бұрын
become rangers they are better
@69AfroThunda699 жыл бұрын
You picked the wrong MOS then
@arnold4life4769 жыл бұрын
Howard Powell why would you pick 92g then lol
@Mithrall9 жыл бұрын
Howard Powell How is that "something in combat"?
@lsrpjune35008 жыл бұрын
u won't be combat...you'd just get to train to jump outta plans. this won't put u in combat...your gonna be cooking food...that's about it
@smandin112 жыл бұрын
wait till you get to division, and do a brigade night mass...haha suckfest esp if you are a M240B gunner, or the Mortars, or Stinger missile dudes... Good times ;) Airfuckinborne
@nealboswell87863 жыл бұрын
Circus ride for school boys.
@eetanderndyn13 жыл бұрын
@Selino25 that's what i'm thinking..
@Pitbull329111 жыл бұрын
why would you assume he was a colonel?
@gungasc11 жыл бұрын
I never did tower week! HAHA!!!
@weaponx1004 жыл бұрын
She resembles the predator
@christianharvey92168 жыл бұрын
to become a paratrooper do you have to attend the 3 month long ranger school
@Chevelle-cc6xf8 жыл бұрын
+Christian Harvey No, Airborne is its separate school.
@cxle38018 жыл бұрын
No, and even ranger school is optional for rangers. For rangers you go to RASP to enter the battalion.
@anony886 жыл бұрын
No
@swigginsye18395 жыл бұрын
no
@dpeagles5 жыл бұрын
No
@TheLonewulf1111 жыл бұрын
@ hunterwhitley that is my name lol
@CharlyKTITAN12 жыл бұрын
MAJ Risdon: (2:29) I understand you want to look cool and all, but you ought to wear the beret properly--AR 670-1 Para: 3-5. Headgear. All the way, Airborne!
@judsonl899011 жыл бұрын
hahaha that sounds awesome
@karenevans16495 жыл бұрын
Thats no halo jump
@lens74513 жыл бұрын
Very few took that high risk jump but some assignments called for the halo conditios is out the window in some cases
@AllBallsNoCock5 жыл бұрын
Should be leaving soon cant wait.
@ObamaFromKenya4 жыл бұрын
drake hobbs hat did you make it through jump school?
@The5admeets3vil12 жыл бұрын
marines do go to airborne and ranger school. matter of fact recon marines HAVE to go.
@dianarobertson49853 жыл бұрын
My father was paratrooper with 101st Airborne ... my brother paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne !!
@dbackjac112 жыл бұрын
Gee. Those "Black Cap" pricks seem so nice and sweet during a tv interview....but we know better !!!
@camperben9 жыл бұрын
The 250 foot tower is really essential. I feel bad for classes that don't get to do that due to weather or time. What a fun ride but it looks scarier that it is?
@abc-wv4in9 жыл бұрын
Yeah, why would all of them not get to use the 250 ft. towers? Seems like too big a thing to just skip. ???
@camperben9 жыл бұрын
I was told that weather is a big factor if class gets to use them....also time...if there are a lot of people that need to be re tested over and over it wastes time...I think the wind cant be over something like 15 mph?
@balugawhale36368 жыл бұрын
Apparently they don't even use them any more, that's just what I was told by some holdovers
@camperben8 жыл бұрын
That's too bad. I found them scary but a nice half step to jumping for real. It really is a perfect simulator for everything but the first 3 seconds of a jump. It also sorts out a TON of refusals in the doorway on the ground. I specifically remember an Army Airborne instructor (I was there with a few Marines) saying that he had never had a person that was fine on the tower refuse and DOR essentially. I was told before I went that I "carried the Honor of the Corps with me" and if I " pussed out I better just go AWOL"...lol
@SergeantR7 жыл бұрын
CyberKnife It sucked, back in 07 they wouldn't allow us to use the tower. We got robbed, I was looking forward to doing that almost as much as my first jump.
@MatthewStv-ix6pp7 жыл бұрын
Do you already have to be in the military before going into airborne school?
@jamesgarafalo3558 жыл бұрын
11x opt 40 leaving in mid February. Anyone else?
@jpguthrie66694 жыл бұрын
I never got to do the 250 foot towers during "tower week." We had a huge class of trainees, even after tossing out the guardsmen, the reservists, and those not going to Airborne units there were too many to find time to get us all onto the towers. Instead we got extra time in the suspended harness (nutcracker) and swing landing trainer.
@phillipzx3754 Жыл бұрын
"swing landing trainer." Talk about being dropped like a sack of spuds.
@jorgetadeusilvagomes9794 Жыл бұрын
I'm Airborne EPA
@kevinterwey49433 жыл бұрын
Hit the hole pole man, hit the hole!
@reddevilparatrooper8 жыл бұрын
I loved this week of training!!My Black Hats always said "Relax!!Fall like a wet noodle or linguine!You will do fine!".
@valuebobjones6 жыл бұрын
I jumped those 250 foot towers twice in 1981. Miss the Army life!
@GhostSpider17412 жыл бұрын
From what I understand, yes. However, I'm not sure how often you'd use that as a Marine, because they don't do many airborne deployments. Plus, I'm not exactly sure how that goes, but it's kind of like how a Marine (I think) can attend Ranger School. Just because he did Ranger School, doesn't mean he's a Ranger and will go on raids with other Rangers. I'm sure if you talk to a recruiter, you'll find some answers.
@klk19008 ай бұрын
Because the ultimate goal is Freefall and Halo HaHo. But you gotta get the basic Static line airborne cert first. It’s just how it is. All special operations units send everyone to the 3 week course. For that basic cert. then you go on and get free fall. For example if your becoming a seal. You have 4 month pre buds, 6 month buds, 6 month SQT. 3 week airborne. If you don’t get that 3 week airborne you won’t get a trident. So you best not screw up and get kicked out!
@davidwood-g2o4 ай бұрын
Arrived about 4th of July, 68, HOT HUMID - did I mention it was HOT ALL THE WAY CHANCE TO JUMP FROM 250 ft.? WAS REQUIRED in 68 it the scariest flat out. Got to actually jump out of the ancient old Box Cars - C 119, and jump week in July 68 we had those, c-130s, and C-141s Courtesy of Air Force Academy students in attendance. I mid 70s now, it the only thing I brag about - being AIRBORNE
@mase05156 жыл бұрын
Graduated Jump school in 1983. Didn't jump again until 1999. Later became a senior parachutist. Was able to jump twice from the 250 tower.
@phillipzx3754 Жыл бұрын
Nobody "jumps" from the 250 foot tower. 😜
@The5admeets3vil12 жыл бұрын
during the summer is the usual time that all the rotc troops go to jump school
@ryanphalen739512 жыл бұрын
Like a kid in a candy store back in 1920 with a nickle.
@marydavis27198 жыл бұрын
I live in West Point ga 20-40 mins from fb
@nikolasekulic6734 ай бұрын
Shawty been mewing
@LuisTorres-cq3lf3 жыл бұрын
I was there in 1970
@ra158995505 жыл бұрын
Dang, Them T-10 parachutes. Trained with those suckers way back in 1968. Tech. Sergeant's from HELL!!
@ghostallied2036 жыл бұрын
When Drops its make me curious but when landing make happy