Bren parachute drop canister's

[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.

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[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...

[breakeyp]

I went into the army because in the Navy or Air Force, if something goes wrong, you can't walk home.

[Peter Laidler]

Heard a good one today.......... The Army use the stars for sleeping under at night. The Navy use them for navigation. The RAF use them for judging the quality of their hotels

[Brit plumber]

Heard a good one today.......... The Army use the stars for sleeping under at night. The Navy use them for navigation. The RAF use them for judging the quality of their hotels

That's right Peter, we don't dig in, we check in.

[Gil Boyd]

Flying10uk,
If you PM me what you have I'll tell you what he did at Arnhem. I happen to have compiled the 11,533 names some years ago, including what happened to them after the battle, ie POW, UK or MIA. The list includes All Arms.