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Most likely because he’s likely one of the Icon-bashers. I believe Icons also cause bad breath and erectile disfunction. Wendy P.

A few corrections here. She is not military. We have eight uniformed services, but only six branches of military (five of which are defense department). DoD -- Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force Other uniformed services -- Coast Guard (military, in my book), NOAA and Public Health Service. The last one is the only one where you don't have to promote through the ranks to reach the top.

So in other words, your description of someone is more important than their own. Wendy P.

Has that been your position since Kaepernick first took a knee?

People who say they don't care about anything unless it directly affects them, sure like to post a lot about things they really don't care about.

Pretty much everyone who knows how viruses work.

I thought that that was Bill's point, that these R's are making it political.

I love the get-up-and-go of that A/C. 17 minutes to 41k. Cessna Citations get the F*#k out of the way.

Sure to all of that. But the whole thing takes cohones and that I admire. Having been on all of the World Team jumps, the Arizona 300 way, the 200 way, the Chicago jumps and others I've made a lot of over 20-24K skydives so my interest at the $11K level has waned to a low level. That said, it would be cool to do and you'd have a damn impressive answer the next time a whuffo asks you what's the highest you've jumped from.

Don't you get it, the plane ride is PART of the event. And the pledge says you will follow FAR's! If they are not following FAR's they should not be a GM. Here is the GM application. You will notice it starts off talking about the advertising and then later mentions the pledge (which we all know means nothing if a DZ that had a crash due to MX is still a GM). https://uspa.org/Portals/0/files/Form_GMInitialApp.pdf Point #1 of the pledge: "Comply with the USPA Basic Safety Requirements (BSRs), which include compliance with the Federal Aviation Regulations relevant to skydiving operations, including aircraft operations." COMPLIANCE WITH FAR's!!!!! Point #3: "Ensure that all aircraft utilized for the purpose of parachute operations comply with commercial maintenance requirements described in U.S. Federal Aviation Regulations Part 91.409(a) through (f) as applicable." COMPLY WITH FAR MX REQUIREMENTS!!!! So if they are not doing that, they are not abiding by the "pledge" yet somehow still are a GM???? But lets continue with the "pledge": But lest look at the GM program manual!!!! https://uspa.org/Portals/0/files/Man_GM.pdf Look at 1-3 "benefits" the first two are: "Use of the authorized phrase, as indicated on the USPA Group Membership Certificate" "Free advertising" So there is little doubt that it really is about marketing and not actual safety. Yet, here we have DZ's breaking at least TWO of the seven "pledges" and still are GM DZ's...... It is about money, not safety. "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." -- Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334