[quote="IEDmagnetnot going to have the time to think... "wow, what a dumbass I have been for climbing all the way up here, wonder what HH6 will think when they tell her? Did I just pass a bird, yeah it was a sparrow, wonder if it was english or african, yeah....there is the ground, this shit will hurt in a minute...well, see ya on the other side." [/quote]
Sounds like you've run through that soliloquy yourself.
I know I did once, but from the other direction (substitute fish species for birds) when I ran out of air 130' down when working as a diver.
Voss, 2d batt's first fatality was a PFC who was showing off his newly acquired rappaling skills while home on leave when the chimney he used as an anchor point failed. "there but for the grace of God..etc"
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2d Bn U.D. for 75th Ranger Regt Assn
2d Bn(Ranger)75 Inf 1975-'77
RS 9-76
Former mentor to RANGER XCrunner.
"I am well aware that by no means equal repute attends the narrator and the doer of deeds”
Sallust ‘The Catiline Conspiracy’