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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.

I bet Billy Waugh coulda steered it. He coulda steered it right up Ho Chi Minh’s ass.
 

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.
 
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.

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.
 
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.

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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