Conference repair::reserve_forces

    That's true, anyone that jumps out of a perfectly good airplane
    has to be nuts 8-).
    
    If he's got a goodly number of jumps to his credit,
    
    1) He's probably landed on his head on occasion,
    2) He's probably three inches shorter than when he started.
    
    8-) 8-)

Only things that fall out of the sky is bird sh*T and fools huh?  :-)

You guys take it easy on us now otherwise we won't let you have the bridges 
next time.

Rich

    
    
    Hey parachuting is the most fun you can have with yer pants on!
    
    Course all these timid, nasty "legs" wouldn't know about that!
    
    ;^)
    
    Dave

     Yo,
    
    Anyone that wants to run across telegraph poles at 30ft up
    for 60ft with a see-saw effect in the middle has got to be nuts.
    
    Me? I'm sure daft. How about carying said pole for three miles?
    
    Or jumping from the balloon and getting caught in the wire 100ft
    up? 
    
    Or landing on the hanger roof in Cambridge and being told the only
    way down was,well,we'll tell you later cos were going to the pub.
    
    Or getting the CSM as your opponent in the ring.(Damm guy made tyson
    look like a wimp)(Mind you he didnt like a uppercut to the Ba!!s
    much... ;-)
    
    More later!!!

    Going back a few points, I asked Macready and he said he made 364
    jumps; and he's not a brainless midget, well he's not a midget.
    
    There were some trainee para's at my last camp; not a very sociable
    bunch when it came to mixing and meal times. And they could eat,
    I have never seen so much food eaten so quickly by so few, to
    paraphrase one W.S. Churchill.  They were like human locusts!!
    
    There were a few SAS guys there as well, looked like they were gliding
     a few inches above the ground.  What does it take to be in the
    special forces I wonder. 
    I had a crack at joining the TA SAS but I was one of the 95% who failed
    - but at least I pulled out before being kicked out. Not much
    consolation I know. In civvies they looked perfectly normal, but
    in uniform they seemed to develop an aura of invicibility. I stayed
    for a few months but my wife, the time required and the yellow streak
    down my back was against me.     
    They had, or seemed to have, the best of everything. Make's my present
    unit look like amateurs in comparison. Apparently, training has
    to be justified in my present unit and that irks me even though
    I appreciate the financial constraints and the need for priorities.
    
    The advertising blurb recommends men in their late 20's, I'd add
    single men to that. I didn't really start until I was past 30, bit
    late really but at least I tried.
    Oh well, dream on my boy..
    
    Walter Mitty.
    

    Re all:
    
    Remember in airborne operations or training - it's not the fall
    that will kill you, it's the sudden stop at the bottom!
    
    Mark  -   who during his Army days almost volunteered for airborne
    RMC USNR  training
    

     
    
     PLEASE DON'T PUT DOWN AIRBORNE YOU MIGHT INSULT SOME ONE.
    YOU DIRTY NASTY LEGS.
           I'D DO ALL OVER AGAIN.
    
    
    SCOTT- WHO DURING HIS ARMY DAYS:
           101st AIRBORNE DIV.
           1\187TH A.R.C.T "RAKKASANS"
           2\17 CAV. LRRP