[AppyPappy]

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[SJackson]

Marines: 13 Parachute Lines Cut

Parachute Sabotage

Lejeune probes parachute tampering after three are injured during jump (Sabotage?)

[Damocles]

Come on... Breaking news!?

[Constitution Day]

Parachutes cut by a deft hand

[JoeSixPack1]

Military probes parachute tampering

Wednesday, October 2, 2002 Posted: 7:48 PM EDT (2348 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The military
is investigating as a criminal case
the discovery of more than a dozen
sabotaged parachutes at the Marine
Corps base at Camp Lejeune, North
Carolina.

Suspension lines on 13 parachutes were
apparently deliberately cut in recent
weeks, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
The Naval Criminal Investigation Service
and the judge advocate general have
launched a criminal investigation.

The sabotage was first suspected
September 21 during a routine parachute
training jump from a C-17 aircraft.

The chutes of three Marines failed to
deploy properly and the men had to use
their reserve chutes to land safely. The
jump was immediately halted.

The C-17 was met on the ground by NCIS
special agents who confiscated all
remaining 22 parachutes and reserve
chutes. Nine additional chutes were
found to have cut lines, and one
additional one was later discovered.

"The inspections determined the
suspension lines had been severed on
the 13 affected main parachutes in such
a manner that pre-jump inspections would not detect any signs of tampering,"
according to a statement from Camp Lejeune.

All parachutes were being re-inspected at the base before further jumps.

Marines in charge of parachute inspections were taking the case very personally.

"A lot of people within the community who do jump have a lot of trust in you, a lot of
faith in your abilities to pack these parachutes correctly -- so that when they do jump
them, when they open, they have good lift," said Sgt. Carlos Sneed.

[leadpenny]

My son just finished Jump School at Benning a month ago and is back at Ft. Lewis. I e-mailed him the story and said he had just read the story in the Army Times and added that he hoped they caught the bas***** soon. Me Too!

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A thread with the complete original article here^. Updated Story from yesterday here^.