mx757 4 #1 July 17, 2007 CANON CITY, Colo. — No, they weren't coming to the rescue. Military officials said 25 heavily armed parachutists who landed in a cornfield on the grounds of a Colorado prison last week were on a training mission but landed about 3 miles off target. "Those were Special Operations Command forces conducting routine training," Army Col. Hans Bush, a spokesman for the command at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., said Monday. He declined to identify the units that landed at Fremont Correctional Facility but said the target was Fremont County Airport. The special operations troops, which could include Navy Seals or Green Berets, began dropping from the sky at about 4:50 a.m. Thursday. Guards on duty, who are trained to watch the skies following a helicopter escape in 1989 from a prison near Ordway, Colo., held their fire after noticing the parachutists were soldiers. Guards who stopped the men and asked for identification were presented with documents that identified them only as Defense Department employees, Colorado Department of Corrections spokeswoman Katherine Sanguinetti. We don't know who they were and I'm not sure we'll ever know who they were," she said. "Everyone acted appropriately." The parachute troops were armed only with rubber training bullets. "The good news is everyone was able to quickly assess the situation," Bush said. The Fremont Correctional Facility is a mixed custody facility that houses inmates classified from minimum to administrative segregation. It houses 1,471 inmates and employs about 450 people. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 35 #2 July 17, 2007 IBTL Dude, this has been posted 6 or 7 times"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
normiss 898 #3 July 17, 2007 search is your friend.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #4 July 17, 2007 (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 35 #5 July 17, 2007 You'll also find near the bottom of page one of the bonfire another thread that was locked because there were other threads on here."Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mx757 4 #6 July 17, 2007 how'd I miss other posts I read DZ bonfire everynight at work... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
normiss 898 #7 July 17, 2007 stop drinking on the job? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 35 #8 July 17, 2007 Quote how'd I miss other posts I read DZ bonfire everynight at work... Every night? I'd say about 30 threads are posted during the day so some of them may get buried in the 2nd or 3rd page... The first thread was posted on General Skydiving Discussions and is still active there."Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lindercles 0 #9 July 17, 2007 I wonder who spotted THIS load. Wink wink, nudge nudge. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
