Lots of memories as a medic covering air drops at the drop zone. Also treating & transporting the injured ones with broken legs and stuff like that. Flew Air Evac on C-141’s & C-130’s and learned all about why you never jump out of a perfectly good airplane. I have great respect for our Airborne troops. Miss those days.
If only people knew all the problems these planes had! Stuff like losing hydraulics and the Flight Engineer having to crank the landing gear down by hand. Then having the plane circle for 45 minutes dumping fuel just in case. or losing a couple engines makes mid flight, plugging hydraulic leaks with chewing gum while flying at 37,000 over the Atlantic Ocean. Not always a perfectly good airplane.
You have every right to brag! I joined to get funding for nursing school. So we ended up taking care of those injured sent to us from the VA to our wound care center after the fact. Our military patients were the most appreciative & kind people who never complained.
Was your ex a politician.
But I do like the worm correlation just the same 🤪
Tear gas antifa morning, noon and night !
Great post today Duke!
To be fair they didn't have cameras on every bus when I was growing up, but they do now. Kids might be biding their time.
Thank you. Those pictures are amazing to see! I Salute all who has ever worn a uniform. I have twin boys who joined with 4 of their friends
And my kids loved being soldiers.
Love all the jump pics. Thanks for sharing.
Herman Munster, my idol!
We jumped from everything imaginable;
C-141's,
C-130's,
Dehaviland- Canada Caribou,
Hueys,
A shipping container under a Sky-Crane.
Only two things fall out of the sky....
Fools and bird-shit.
Airborne!
A shipping container? LOL
Light falls from the sky too. We were death from above.
Now, we’re just ordinary men again. Those were the days.
We’ve come full circle, from all-American airborne to chairborne.
All the way! salute
🫡❤️🤍💙
I want to know how Duke got my Setters to look like those guard dogs
I'm the DoG whisperer...
Lots of memories as a medic covering air drops at the drop zone. Also treating & transporting the injured ones with broken legs and stuff like that. Flew Air Evac on C-141’s & C-130’s and learned all about why you never jump out of a perfectly good airplane. I have great respect for our Airborne troops. Miss those days.
No I don’t …
Bro, I was 82nd Abn Inf and jumped out of a lot of airplanes. Not a single one was perfectly good. Regardless, thank you for your Service.
If only people knew all the problems these planes had! Stuff like losing hydraulics and the Flight Engineer having to crank the landing gear down by hand. Then having the plane circle for 45 minutes dumping fuel just in case. or losing a couple engines makes mid flight, plugging hydraulic leaks with chewing gum while flying at 37,000 over the Atlantic Ocean. Not always a perfectly good airplane.
I still carry my old wounds and it still hurts - but I'm proud of every old injury and scar I got...bragging rights. :D
You have every right to brag! I joined to get funding for nursing school. So we ended up taking care of those injured sent to us from the VA to our wound care center after the fact. Our military patients were the most appreciative & kind people who never complained.
Might explain the couple of former airborne that were in my MLRS AIT class 🤔