I used to jump out of perfectly good airplanes. It was alot of fun. I enjoyed the adrenaline rush. The idea that a peice of metal and other material can be built into a plane that can be used for soldier to fall out of still mesmerizes me. Essentially, a paratrooper falls out of the plane and when the parachute opens, its slows down the fall. By units mission, I was supposed to be one of the last soldiers to jump out of the plane. I would then be able to round up the wounded and stablized anyone else who was injured during the jump.
The mission would require me to go out on patrol with the guys or what ever mission we had after.
Hop and pops were some of the funnest jumps I made. We would go fly out in our full combat gear, make the jump into the drop zone and then put on another parachute and jump some more. I think the most I made in one day was three jumps.
I never jumped into a hot drop zone into combat. I did jump into a drop zone one time where our unit ended up conducting some real world operations, but it does not count as a combat jump. I talk about my jumping experiences in my book: My Journey as a Combat Medic: From Desert Storm to Operation Enduring Freedom. http://www.armycombatmedic.com/
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