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Yeah, no slip, notta. I was a team leader/medic as an Sp/4, on DRF 7 support cycle, med coverage for day Sicily DZ drop. I was a paramedic, so, lead DZ medic that day. Either an E5 or E4 with paramedic can do that.
I briefed my dudes on: driver stays in FLA, medic watches for jumpers.
So, other side of DZ, jumper bounces off of FLA, thankfully, not hurt, I got an ass chewed for retard E3, not paying attention.
My squad leader let me run shit down hill on the FLA toads. Stretcher Pt the next day for the 2 in the FLA. LOL.
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R.Caerbannog
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Because some power hungry Mod 
locked Monday's a Bitch thread and I fell asleep before I could post this.
locked Monday's a Bitch thread and I fell asleep before I could post this.
Comedy!
BuckysBadger24
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Don't you have some steering on those things? No, not the truck...the parachute.
Pure fucking gold. Notice how NYPD will show up to lock this guy up, every New Yorker I know, says NYPD are clueless ran by clueless bosses.
Lol
Devildoc
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I have a freedom boner...
Na. Those chutes, all static line chutes are non steerable. The best you can do is something they were saying "slip away".
That means, the 4 risers or thick nylon that connects you to chute, you can pull rear ones to "slow" rear drift, front risers for front drift, sides too, though, it never really slows. It's why PLFs/proper tight body positioning is tantamount.
Static line chutes differ from sky diving chutes in that, static line chutes are connected in the plane to an anchor line cable, you jump at low altitude, 3 to 4 second count, 6 count in helos, static line connected to anchor line results in the pull of chute, on its own.
Back in the day, we jumped T10c's, occasionally, MC1-1 b (they had toggles you can pull) but Joe would try to flare like sky diving chutes resulting in collapse of chutes.
To add to my Jim Henson counterpart...
Using the risers provides you with "steerability" which is to say you have enough control to make small adjustments. If my chute is touching yours we can slip away from each other or in the case of the videoed dumbass, enough to miss a freaking truck. Small corrections, not big corrections.
The MC1-1B...my backbreaker (literally) parachute. You can "flare" the canopies using the toggles. I never tried but I knew guys who could and did, but the timing had to be just so. Guys could perform standup landings under -1B's and -1C's, but if your timing was off it drove your dick into the dirt. You also had to do it at a higher altitude than you would a ram air skydiving parachute.
R.Caerbannog
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Not really and it depends on the wind. Homie would have had to correct when he was way up in the sky, to make a difference.
The sea is a harsh mistress, the sky more so.
Devildoc
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Savage.
That's funny. I went into the ANG in 1980 as a 29-year-old AF E-4. (E-4's were called "Sergeants" back then). Then after 4-long years I finally made E-5 S/Sgt. Promotions were so slow I figured I'd be forty before I ever got E-6. Never made it. I got out after six years, still an E-5.
At least I tried.
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