How Many

[rgrjoe175]

I really don't remember.. 65+ I think the copy I had of my jump log along with a whole bunch of other shit went up in the fire...

JP

[Rugger]

According to my jump long the number is 83.

C 130
C141
UH1
UH 60
CH 47

[Grunt]

Me? Not many. But speaking of mustard stains...

My brother-in-law made the Panama jump with the 82nd. Up to that point he had 80-some jumps. Anyway, he's sitting next to this young kid on the plane and the kid is turning pale. Paul tries to comfort him a bit by making small talk, "How many jumps you got Private?" The kid looks at him and says, "Five."

Grunt

[Joshua]

My favorite jumps were free-falling from ramp of C130/C160

Static line 21
Free fall 58

Water jump 1
Operational jumps 2 (1 Static, 1 Free-fall)

Platforms:
C 130
C 160 Transall
DC 3 (Dakota)
Cessna

[Bravo57]

Wow, good bump.

I have 128 static line (practice jumps) listed in my jump log

Platforms:
UH-1
CH-53
CH-47
UH-60
C-130
C-141
C-5 (these were really fun)
Baloon
I don't think I left anything out.

[rgrwest]

267 on my log. 22 years on status.

C-130
C-141
C-5 UGLY
UH-1H
UH-60
CH-47
CH-54
AN-2 COLT
SOME ITALIAN PROP JOB (SILVERBACK? ANY HELP, FORGET THE NAME)

[Seabass1-4]

Around 85

Platforms:
UH1
UH60
CH47
C5
C17
C130
C141
AN2
CH53
W3 SOKOL (Polish helo)
Fokker (Dutch plane)
Transall C160

[Silverback]

267 on my log. 22 years on status.

C-130
C-141
C-5 UGLY
UH-1H
UH-60
CH-47
CH-54
AN-2 COLT
SOME ITALIAN PROP JOB (SILVERBACK? ANY HELP, FORGET THE NAME)

C-160 (Transall)

[Ranger Morrissey]

115: 35 in 2nd Bat (Oct 79-Mar 81), 80 as an RI (Jul 85-Feb 89)...
- (5) water jumps, (1) @ 750 ft, no tree landings, (1) broken leg ('85)
C-123(?) Jet-assisted take-off @ Benning in Jump School
C-130: regular and tailgate
UH-1H
CH-43 (Marine version)
CH-47
UH-60

[rgrwest]

267 on my log. 22 years on status.

C-130
C-141
C-5 UGLY
UH-1H
UH-60
CH-47
CH-54
AN-2 COLT
SOME ITALIAN PROP JOB (SILVERBACK? ANY HELP, FORGET THE NAME)

C-160 (Transall)

Yuppers, I believe that was it. Was that large bird, cause I jumped that one as sell as the one that looks like the AN2 Colt? Thanks!

I forgot the C-130 Stretch that the Brits use....

[mortar_guy78]

Reviving an old thread.

According to my jump log, I have 36 jumps. I remember a few that weren't logged, but what the hell.

C130
C141
C17
UH60
CH47
Hot Air Balloon for Korean jump wings. (When I got the Tunisian wings, the derkas just jumped our Chinooks with us.)
1 mustard stain.

I ran into Spahl from 1/75 Mortars when I was training at Ft. Rich once. We bullshitted around for a while. Then he asked me, "So you're a leg now?"

I said, "I may be a leg now, but I got the jump that counts."

[oklahoma_ranger]

35 Jumps........

Had one chute pull a cigarette roll....... That made the butthole pucker...... Thank God for the reserve!

Wish I was still on status! Maybe if this dang recruiter will hurry up and get with the program, I'll be able to jump in the next few months!

[nightingalek]

The aggregate number of jumps is an indicator but not an absolute one regarding risk and reward. Historically, combat jumps are considered the most risky/most rewarding and standards have changed over time. Some examples;

MG Ridgeway, CG 82d at Normandy made his first jump into Normandy.

MG Max Taylor, CG, 101st, made his 5th jump into Normandy.

Most 82d/101st troops made their combat jumps plus 5 (school) and that was it.

BG Gavin asked Beaver Thompson, a newspaper reporter, to accompany him to Normandy. Thompson had never jumped and knew nothing about it. He agreed. His D Day jump which Gavin JM'd was his first and only jump.

Bob Murphy, first 82d Pathfinder on the ground on D Day made his fourth combat jump into Nijmegen at age 18. He had already done Sicily, Salerno and Normandy.

I have several hundred jumps from all over the world and I would trade them all in for a single no-s--t combat jump.

Walking away is more important than chuting up.

Keith

[K.Ingraham]

I have several hundred jumps from all over the world and I would trade them all in for a single no-s--t combat jump.

"Yea, verily".