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Gunz said:
Don't you have some steering on those things? No, not the truck...the parachute.
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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.
 
Muppet said:
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.
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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.
 
AWP said:
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.
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I bet Billy Waugh coulda steered it. He coulda steered it right up Ho Chi Minh’s ass.
 
Marauder06 said:
Savage.

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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.
 
Gunz said:
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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The other side of the coin today is I know of whole ANG units where you can make E-6 in less than 8 years with some units in 6.

I assure you, they didn't try.
 
Gunz said:
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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My rate in the Navy, corpsman, was and remains the most overmanned rate. It was almost impossible to get to E5 under 8 years, and a lot of of them will retire at E6.

In contrast IS (Intel) and crypto? They almost always make chief, E7, in 10, 11 years.
 
I always hated getting knifed in COD.

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