Ready or not, here I come...

BRanger91 · Post by **BRanger91** » April 9th, 2004, 7:37 pm

Good luck LN, and remember if you do a proper PLF, your doing it wrong!

Looon · Post by **Looon** » April 12th, 2004, 8:58 am

BRanger91 wrote:Good luck LN, and remember if you do a proper PLF, your doing it wrong!

Aint that the fucken truth.

Remember: toes, knees, and face.

rangercamaro · Post by **rangercamaro** » April 12th, 2004, 9:09 am

Leatherneck wrote:
Slowpoke wrote:Look out Benning....Here comes the human lawn dart. Good luck LN, I have no doubts of your abilities.
LOL, should I wear cletes?

Don't worry LN, Something may stick in the ground but it won't be a cleat!!

Good luck and enjoy view!!

Looon · Post by **Looon** » April 12th, 2004, 9:11 am

rangercamaro wrote:
Leatherneck wrote:
Slowpoke wrote:Look out Benning....Here comes the human lawn dart. Good luck LN, I have no doubts of your abilities.
LOL, should I wear cletes?
Don't worry LN, Something may stick in the ground but it won't be a cleat!! Good luck and enjoy view!!

doesn't PLF stand for : Pisspoor Landing Fuck?

Steadfast · Post by **Steadfast** » April 12th, 2004, 9:22 am

I want to hear what type of aircraft he made his first jump out of but I guess I gotta wait until he gets to his 3rd weeks of training.

Slowpoke · Post by **Slowpoke** » April 12th, 2004, 9:34 am

I think they jump C130s now. Those old boxcars we jumped out of got decommisioned long ago.

Looon · Post by **Looon** » April 12th, 2004, 9:53 am

Watch out for those 'heel, ass, and the back of the head' landings, also.

Slowpoke · Post by **Slowpoke** » April 12th, 2004, 10:24 am

No matter how much I tried to turn, I always seemed to manage either "heels-ass-head" or "toes-knees-face" PLFs.

Looon · Post by **Looon** » April 12th, 2004, 10:29 am

Slowpoke wrote:No matter how much I tried to turn, I always seemed to manage either "heels-ass-head" or "toes-knees-face" PLFs.

Same for me.

But once in a while we got to use dash 10 bravos(?) that had toggles you could turn with. They had 1/4 of the canopy cut out in the rear of the chute to give you 15 nots of forward thrust as you decended. Easier to turn into the wind.

deleon275 · Post by **deleon275** » April 12th, 2004, 11:46 am

Enjoy the insanely slow runs everywhere. Your knees will love you after its over with.

Steadfast · Post by **Steadfast** » April 12th, 2004, 11:50 am

I always prefer the prayer method, kissing one's own ass goodbye on the way out the door. Geronimoooooooooooooooooooooo!

Looon · Post by **Looon** » April 12th, 2004, 11:56 am

I think I yelled OH SHIT! upon my first exit.

Creeping Death · Post by **Creeping Death** » April 12th, 2004, 12:18 pm

LN:

Regardless of what anyone tells you, you can't call yourself Airborne until you ride your shit in (only pussies lower their rucks), and your landing resembles the following:

Drop straight down, and order of impact is toes, top of ruck (the ruck is hung upside down when rigged), your chin into the bottom of the ruck frame, and lastely your forehead as you spill forward either semi or totally unconscious from eating your ruck frame.cThis scenario is more easily accomplished when jumping an abnormally large load such as the radio or mortar base plate.

Good Luck.

Looon · Post by **Looon** » April 12th, 2004, 12:49 pm

I rode my shit in once. It was on Gatun in Panama for JOTC. Upon exit, my ruck got flipped around and the releases were jammed. Don't ask me how, beause I don't know how it happened.

You know that cobble stone rd that snakes up the DZ? Well, I hit that on my fucken knees.

I couldn't walk for two days. The good thing was I missed out on the the killer bee attack that hit my plt.

after they started the first movement.

What was really funny was the BN commander, LTC Hunt was with them.