$150 per month and to hear the lamentations of the women.
First jump was on my 18th birthday. Wow, what a way celebrate. I was the next to last out of that bird that day and the Lt just behind me streamered and broke his back. 101 recorded jumps, Korean and US Master Parachutist Wings, back surgery in Okinawa, ankle surgery in Hong Kong, knee surgery in DC and spinal fusion at Duke Medical Center. Hope I never “have” to get the hip replacements they told me I needed over years ago.
I loved the 82d Abn Div, SF and XVIII Abn Corps in general.
Some of the weirdest jumps were in Panama where the elephant grass is a dozen feet high and watching a guy from the unit streamer in and literally bounce up in the air - 15 minutes the indestructible guy came up the parachute turn in point and was choppered out with any injuries - we had 18 broken feet, ankles, legs on that jump but nothing happened to the guy that streamered.