Bren parachute drop canister's

[browningautorifle]

a solitary concrete wire post not picked up by the RAF ground team

DZ controller's job. Someone needed to be crucified for that. Complacency at it's best...

[Gil Boyd]

Jim,
There was a major enquiry, sadly like many of our training areas sheep take over, when areas get over grown and fences appear temprarily, and should always be dismantled once the job is done, something went wrong on that occasion clearly.

[CINDERS]

Not trying to be rude but what posses someone of sound mind to jump out of a perfectly serviceable aero plane when we know that primarily man was meant to be a terrestrial being!

One of our shooters smashed both ankles in a building hit when high winds took hold of his chute he would only be about 46 ish and has had at least 3 operations since I have known him in the last 9 years and they still give him curry all the time sadly was M.U from the service

[Gil Boyd]

Cinders,
Parachuting is just one skill, to get a highly specialised and highly trained motivated fighting force on the deck twice as quick, spread over a wider area to achieve success. It is the most exillerating buzz you can have.......military parachuting that is, operationally set at 200 feet, down their throats before they can take aim............... a hipflask of Jack is a close second

[Flying10uk]

I only met the "friend of a friend" when he was a pensioner but helping him with the nightmare task of getting in and out of a car, of which every single movement was painful agony, it was hard to imagine how he must have been as a young man, a fighting fit paratrooper.

[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?

[Gil Boyd]

Amazing how a Bren Gun parachuting cannister can take in some great stories of trials and tribulations. What did they always says "Pain is a sensation, sensations should be enjoyed" says he with two new hips, probably caused by dry training as Brian says

[ActionYobbo]

long way form the early days of wrapping stuff in blankets and shoving it out the door on a low pass

[browningautorifle]

a perfectly serviceable aero plane

It's a perfectly serviceable parachute...

Ain't life great?

Urrah!

wrapping stuff in blankets and shoving it out the door

No thanks, I don't want to do that. Jumping off a hovering chopper is bad enough. Specially when the first man disappears into the growth below...

[bigduke6]

Not trying to be rude but what posses someone of sound mind to jump out of a perfectly serviceable aero plane when we know that primarily man was meant to be a terrestrial being!

Variations of the above probably told in most Recruiting Offices throughout the world, I was told similar by CSgt Carrol, (Recruiting office in Barrow-In-Furness, at the Kings Own Royal Border Regiment TA Centre) when signing up for my 22 at 15 1/2........... Lot to thank that Man for.