My first jump after rotating out of Viet Nam back to the 82nd Airborne was out of a C-141 Starlifter.
Needless to say, with the last jump I made out a helicopter, and that was a year previously, I was a little bit concern when I discovered we would be jumping out of a jet plane.
My only instructions were “Don’t jump, just walk out the door”. The reason if you got out past the wind shield you would have a new experience (above and beyond jumping out of a jet.) Fortunately that was my one and only time. From then until I was discharged all my qualifying jumps were from a helicopter.
(It has been close to 50 years so my memory may be a little hazy)
Time sure flies doesn’t it? Hard to believe the “Troubles” in VN was that long ago. “AIRBORNE!” Thanks for your service. It’s appreciated a lot more now than it was in the late 60’s/early 70’s. We were often told to dress in civies when leaving the ship or base.
The C-141 was the Cadillac of jumps, it was effort free because it sucks you out so leaning forward was pretty much it.
You probably trained while they were still using C/119’s, they were alot of fun. I liked the C/130’s and Chinooks But a Huey drop was cool too.