how embarrassing!!
To: DancesWithCats
A "training mission", huh?
Sounds like they need more training.
To: DancesWithCats
Once in awhile you miss the drop zone. My son busted a leg a couple of years ago at Bragg when they missed the drop zone and he landed in a tree.
To: DancesWithCats
The parachute troops were armed only with rubber training bullets. Not buying this line.
To: DancesWithCats
5 posted on
07/17/2007 10:24:21 AM PDT by
nuconvert
([there are bad people in the pistachio business] (...but his head is so tiny...))
To: DancesWithCats
Colorado, could be 10th Group or the Jedi.
Sounds like they did a HAHO jump and miscalculated because of the tricky winds around the area.
6 posted on
07/17/2007 10:24:26 AM PDT by
BGHater
(My Tagline will defend freedom.)
To: DancesWithCats
What do you want to bet the two inmates who managed to escape that night ... returned to their cells and told no one?
7 posted on
07/17/2007 10:25:36 AM PDT by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: DancesWithCats
Only 3 miles off target? Give them fellers a medal!
Sincerely,
Katie Corrigan (Wrong Way's granddaughter)
9 posted on
07/17/2007 10:26:29 AM PDT by
LIConFem
(Thompson 2008. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter 2008 (VP) Lifetime ACU Rating: 92)
To: DancesWithCats
Sounds like a navigator will be getting downgraded. And the aircraft commander will take some flak.
15 posted on
07/17/2007 10:44:25 AM PDT by
AlaskaErik
(Run, Fred run! I will send my donation as soon as you announce.)
To: DancesWithCats
First thing that comes to mind:
18 posted on
07/17/2007 10:48:52 AM PDT by
Inquisitive1
(I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance - Socrates)
To: DancesWithCats
"And I wanna know what silly SOB pushed the GO button NOW!!!"
22 posted on
07/17/2007 11:03:16 AM PDT by
GoldCountryRedneck
("Flying is like Life: Know where you are, where you're going, and how to get there." - 'Ol Dad)
To: DancesWithCats
About a year ago a couple of teams from the 3d SF Grp were doing a practice jump in the wee hours of the morning in NC and they landed on an Interstate. I had visions of the people driving down that interstate watching these guys coming down. Fortunately, nobody hurt.
To: DancesWithCats
Dangerous situation defused by people that kept their cool. Armed men dropping on a jail perimeter is never a good thing.
Fortunately, these troops didn't drop on a school or somesuch nonsense. The kids would have needed grief counselors because they saw guns, the troops would have been excoriated in the press for looking, well, like troops, and the administrators would have all needed to change their panties.
26 posted on
07/17/2007 11:15:49 AM PDT by
wbill
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