To: Pan_Yan
Mellinger wasn't long for clerking. He earned a spot in the Army Rangers, and would go on to do more than 3,700 parachute jumps. And despite the 1991 parachute accident that gave him the material for the wind chime, breaking his leg in several places, he went on to run nine marathons. He was made a command sergeant major in 1992. That is a lot of jumping.
4 posted on
07/03/2011 5:35:42 PM PDT by
ansel12
(America has close to India population of 1950s, India has 1,200,000,000 people now. Quality of Life?)
To: ansel12
Number like that only come from the Golden Knights. 3,700 static line jumps is not possible.
6 posted on
07/03/2011 5:39:49 PM PDT by
Palter
(Celebrate diversity .22, .223, .25, 9mm, .32 .357, 10mm, .44, .45, .500)
To: ansel12
Article says he 58 but does not look a day older than 49. Kudos!
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