So You Wanna Go Airborne

Video Edited from Jump School.
Airborne Units wear MAROON Berets, however, only airborne individuals wear Wings. All else are Legs, Dirty Rotten Legs...
And let's get it straight. If Air Assault had any clout like Airborne does...101 wouldn't have kept their Airborne tab...
First Song: P.O.D. Say Hello To The Bad Guy
Second Song: Kutless Somewhere In The Sky
Third Song: Disciple Game On

Trying to get a camera on my next jump to tape the exit, I did the last time but i bumped the button and the film cut off just as i jumped...sad. I'm a chaplain assistant by the way. Also, transferring to 1st Group, Ft. Lewis. I'M GOING HOME!


Also, just got my Foreign wings! Irish! Woot. Pog Mathoin Jumpmaster!

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Airborne
• Paratroopers
• Paratrooper
• Jump
• School
• Parachute

[doubledfire]

damn wmg! WAIT!!! how about we drop paratroopers over wmg hq and silence them forever! *thumbs up*

[SatanicDoomElf]

8 hours waiting in the hanger for a 5 minute ride and a 12 second drop. Fun times.

[123nypd1]

@DumbHonkie1 Thats Why I might just join the Marines-

[DumbHonkie1]

@123nypd1 The jump school does only one thing, teaching you how to jump out of a plane,nothing more. If you are physically in good shape and have no fear of heights,then you will not have any problem passing it. The hardest part of being a paratrooper comes when you are assigned to an Airborne unit, specially the 82nd Airborne. The washout rate of new jump school graduates in an Airborne unit is very high. If you don't meet it's standards, you will be sent to a leg unit very fast.

[DumbHonkie1]

@123nypd1 Come on, go Airborne you can do it. You will not regret it.

[123nypd1]

@DumbHonkie1 yaaaaay that means I could become a Marine!!!!!!!!!!

[DumbHonkie1]

The Parachute(Airborne) Infantry Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne are extremely well trained in raid,ambush,urban warfare, airfield seizure tactics and many more.. Most of the 82nd Airborne(Parachute) Infantry Paratroopers are also Ranger-qualified and or Pathfinder-qualified and or sniper-qualified and or Air Assault-qualified and many more. In capabilities these 82nd Airborne(Parachute) Infantry Paratroopers are just below the Rangers but way above the marine infantrymen.

[DumbHonkie1]

@DumbHonkie1 The qualitis of jump school traninees are lot higher than those of the marine recruits at the boot camp because the Airborne trainees are not like the raw recruits at the marine boot camp. These Airborne trainees already went thru basic and AIT training and among them you will also find a lot of Special Forces, Ranger, Seals, marine recon trainees. Even so the dropout rate at the jump school is 28% compared to the very low dropout rate of 11.7% at the marine boot camp.

[DumbHonkie1]

When I went to the jump school, there were 4 recon marines and two of the marines couldn't pass it. One marine couldn't keep up with the runs and another marine froze at the door of an airplane.According to the DoD statistics, the dropout rate at the marine boot camp is 11.7%(no kidding, almost anybody can be a marine!!!) and according to the jump school, the dropout rate is about 28%. So becoming a Paratrooper is a lot harder than becoming a marine.

[DumbHonkie1]

Passing the jump school is the easiest part of being a Paratrooper. The jump school teaches you only one thing, jumping out a moving plane, nothing more. The real hard training starts, when you get to your Airborne unit. The washout rate for newly arrived 'cherries(new jump school graduates) are very high. If you don't meet your Airborne unit's standards, they will kick you out of the Airborne unit into a leg(non Airborne) unit very fast.

[henoch44]

@islandbear13 I don't. static line blows. Skydiving is way more fun.

[TacAthPerf]

Three days of training crammed into three weeks

Thumbs up if you aren't a dirty nasty leg

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