Bren parachute drop canister's

[Brian Dick]

I think BAR hit the nail on the head with all of the practice jumps done off a 12' platform onto sawdust piles. I's guess we did thousands of practice "jumps", usually prior to actually loading the bird and going off on a real one. One has to wonder if all those didn't do more damage to our bodies than the actual jumps did! Right side, left side, right rear, left rear, right front, left front, front and rear. If go to fall down outside these days, I still automatically ball up up and roll out of it, even drunk!! I've had disc replacement in my neck and a cracked lumbar vertebrae. The Army told me that one was congenital. I was gutted like a fish last week with two of the worst hernias the surgeon told me he'd seen in a long time. Got the STAPLES out this morning. I've been plodding along on those for more years than anyone knows. I can't blame it all on the Army though. Ain't life great?