When my son went
To jump school at Ft Benning, it had been tradition that if your father was airborne he could make the 5th (graduation) jump with you. About 5 of us showed up 2 days early because we had to go to a refresher ground course. One guy took 30 days off and drove from Alaska where he worked on offshore oil rigs. When we got there we were told that the Army had stopped the program because a father got hurt on one of the jumps and had filed a law suit against the Army. We sure would have liked to have gotten our hands on that guy. My sons first sergeant in jump school served with me in the SF.
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