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To: U S Army EOD
Was that the C130A that had one side of it props reverse on final? Happened about 1980 or so.

It was a C-119, and happened in the sixties.
899 posted on 06/28/2006 12:48:34 PM PDT by GarySpFc (Jesus on Immigration, John 10:1)
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We had a C130A do that about a week after we jumped it.

Speaking of C119's, one of my NCO's I had in Korea got into EOD because he got tired of jumping and walking when he was in the 82nd. He was a Korean war veteran in the 187th ?? or whatever airborne brigade that was in Korea. They were at Bragg on a C119 and had a tail boom crack. He said the pilot came back and looked at it and told everyone they were not going to make it to the DZ and to get ready to jump. He also told them, that if they didn't want to jump, just follow him back up to the cockpit and he would show them how to fly the plane. They went out with the aircraft crew right behind them.


914 posted on 06/28/2006 1:17:32 PM PDT by U S Army EOD (i)
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