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Old 05-31-2003, 06:28 PM
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Default All you Airborne types...
...I think I see something I recognize in Ron's piccie of Ft. Benning.

Do ya'll see anything that looks familiar? LOL!

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Old 05-31-2003, 06:53 PM
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I noticed the 250' tower right off. Ron, did you go up for a ride, Bud?
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Old 06-02-2003, 06:24 AM
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Do they still use that thing? A kid in my class in 1966 was killed jumping that thing. Hit his head on a bad PLF and died of a brain hemmorage.
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They did when my son went to jump school in 1992, BUTTTT This may be the mysterious tower 5.
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Old 06-04-2003, 09:25 AM
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One of my survival schools required that I make a jump off that tower and in flight training I had to make one jump and between that and flight swimming I felt I had run the gammet.
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There are three towers, The perpose of the picture was ME not the towers.
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Old 06-05-2003, 06:26 AM
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Default HEEEEYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!
HEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I JUST NOTICED SOMETHING!!!!
That's me waving from the top of the tower!!!!!!!!

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