The "Mighty Ungawa" Experience

Dropping from the 250' Free Tower, Fort Benning, GA Airborne School.
2LT Strasser (jumper)

[@AK-gt8zy]

I can hear your heartbeat lol

[@Hughesgang]

Loved hearing your heart beating.

[@mikegrant8490]

In July 1971, we didn't hang in the harness like that. You went up, the release happened, you came down. Only if there was a wind shift or a gusting was the process delayed. My barracks for NCOCS, 70th Company, were next to the towers and it was observed that all through from March through June that the during the Tower Week phase they generally just went up, the release happened and they came down, though I do remember a wind condition that brought them back down until the wind abated enough to allow continuation, no sense in letting someone sit up there for a long duration. Our Black hats were very protective then, as they are now. Safety first. (It looked like fun when I was going through the NCO Academy, so I went Airborne too, and it was fun. Good times... 50 years ago. )

[@whiskeybuilder6335]

Week 2. Fun shit. Gotta Hit the hole with the pole! Best 3 weeks of my life. I miss my brothers. AIRBORNE! AIRBORNE! ALL THE Way!

[@MrDamajah]

@ It was “Hit the hole pole man, hit the hole.”

[@nemeseskill]

awesome!!

[@dennisludwig5542]

They have Navy black hats now?

[@T10LawnDart]

Navy and Marine Black Hats when I went through 2001

[@JDtheFreak]

Not any different than it was in September, 1982.

[@Mick762]

Or November 1994

[@dmcintyre17]

Or June 1989

[@triniblessed9704]

That would of been the softest landing you would ever have in your airborne career..lol!!!

[@MrDamajah]

Tarzan was the name of the second tower. Even though only two towers are used, anyone remember what the name of the third tower was?