[yocan]

Military has people doing things that are not exciting, but those are support jobs.

With out the support jobs, military would not work.

this guy who claims to be SF Officer said he also had 130+ jumps in 4 years service.

Seem like a huge amount of parachute jump in for years of military, and two of those in RVN.

Theoretically possible if he just loved jumping. I've never heard of a unit jumping that much. My grandfather did cause he's crazy about flying. Wasn't airborne was a mp jumped once a week 50 times in a year cause he wanted to and they let him. 90 years old no discs left in his back. It was nearly a funeral when he sold his last plane (piper cub) at 84. Man just loves to fly.

I've never in my life met anyone else who jumped more than 20x in a year in the military. Maybe someone on here was a jump instructor and maybe they jumped more? Dunno never really knew any of them.

 

[yocan]

My friend,Bobby Ratliff,was a paratrooper. Don't know his rank or outfit. He loved jumping out of airplanes; and,would have 5 chutes lined up on the ground,jump in the plane,take off,gain altitude, jump,hit the ground and put on another chute. Plane would land,pick him up and repeat x5.

I remember watching him floating down and he was singing or hollering. He loved it.
Seemed to me like he was always tempting fate. Tough dude and a good friend,may he rest in peace.

Not sure how many jumps he did total; but,five in one day seemed like a lot to me.

but those aren't round chutes they are foils much, much softer landing.

I did about 40 jumps in 4 years, that would be about average in the 82d.

Once a month gets you jump pay so many units aim for that.

And it's hard on you.

 

[yocan]

A guy I used to work with was a recreational jumper. He had something like 75-80 jumps total and his back is a mess. Man he had some stories… like landing on electrical lines. On top of buildings had a few times his chute got tangled up and he had to cut himself free to get to his backup chute. He had broken legs, arms, shattered his pelvis, overal beat up pretty good but he sure loved the sport.

I met a ranger like that. Jumped out of a boat at 70mph. He no longer has a spleen. He'll argue with anyone over anything. Sigh