[Milsurplus] Re: PRC 10 as in flight radio

[BOEING377@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/1/2003 5:06:20 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
kargo_cult@msn.com writes:

> For short QSOs, right?
> 

Yes!.  They were jumping 28 ft round C-9 rip-stop nylon high porosity 
canopies. I can tell you from my early days of sport jumping (1968) those boatanchor 
C-9 canopies put you down pretty fast even without carrying any extra gear.  
The most radio gear I have taken along on a jump is an FRS HT.

 I was never able to do a standup landing under those boatanchor 28 ft 
canopies. Every landing hurt. The 35 ft T 10s were a lot better, but I could only 
afford the dirt cheap C-9 28 footers. The article says they were jumping at 
midnight to harass the 27th Combat Engineers. I have a friend who was a Ranger who 
made a similar HALO night harassment jump into an area that was supposed to 
be very secure. He and his fellow Rangers rolled a couple of trucks into a 
lake, left notes on other equipment saying this has been destroyed, and exited 
undetected.  They got into quite a bit of trouble for taking things that far.


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