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I feel like this has been asked and answered. The answer being that Cooper wasn't a skydiver nor was he some Braden-esque military parachutist. He was likely someone who had frequently worn parachutes in the military, either as a paratrooper or as a pilot/air crewman.

Absolutely. When I was in school - health education also included sex education. .

Health education should include nutrition, the basics of illness (difference between a virus, a bacteria and a parasite), and illness management/prevention (how vaccines work; when to get a vaccine and when to use an expectorant). Basic personal hygiene and food handling.

Yes, of course. But that was not the majority. And they still are. Any part of a parachute component that will be used in an emergency use chute has to be tested to FAA TSO standards. This has been addressed. If you don't want to accept the answer, then don't. But one thing you keep doing is looking at the rig as a whole, and not separating the container from the various canopies that might be in it. My guess is the first. But ultimately we don't know. Bullshit. I answered that question each time you asked it. If you want to reject my answer, that's your prerogative. But to say that I refused to answer and twisted it, that is you flat out lying. Hypocrite. It seems to me that you have lost your mind. You've changed recently. Has someone hacked your account? You are smarter than this.

The problem is we can't possibly ever know which of those two options is correct, and there is nothing to sway us one way or the other, so to have the answer we would literally have to be in Cooper's mind, which obviously we can't do. So I don't see this particular line of inquiry to be helpful. For me, the only aspect of Cooper's parachuting acumen that we can have reasonable confidence in knowing is the belief that he was NOT a recreational skydiver of any sort. We know how the skydiver copycats behaved and we know how the non-skydiver copycats behaved. There is little doubt that his behavior falls in line with the latter category. On a sliding scale of "parachuting know-how" among all of the parajackers, Cooper seems to fall in the middle. Yet the main reasons I place him in the middle of the road, aside from Tina saying he seemed comfortable putting it on, really come from one source: Tosaw. He is our ONLY source for Cooper complaining about D-rings and him looking at packing cards, which are the two things that really elevate him above the McNally's and Fisher's of the world. As I've said numerous times, I would lean toward Tosaw getting that from Tina back when her memory was closer to the event than it certainly is now. Additionally, Tosaw was of the belief that Cooper was foolish and got himself killed. It doesn't benefit the narrative of his book to give Cooper enough parachuting knowledge to know what D-rings were and to know what packing cards were. So I would lean toward him not making that up. The packing cards especially would be a bizarre detail to invent for Tosaw. However, there have to be some slight embellishments or artistic licenses found within Tosaw's narrative. That's just the reality you face when writing a vivid narrative like he did. So might him bitching about the D-rings be one of those? Regardless, as I said, the only thing we can be reasonably confident in given the case evidence and comparative evidence with the other parajackers is that Cooper would have gone about things differently if he was a rec skydiver.

Balderdash. Not one word of what I wrote fits that description. I have had nothing but respect for you. You are clearly a dedicated and detailed researcher. But lately you seem to be stubborn and suffering from oppositional disorder. Anything anyone says that you don't agree with is either nonsense or a lie. I call bullshit. That's your call. But I've asked a couple questions that you haven't answered. And I'd still like to know whose that other guitar was.

Plenty of thugs in DC on January 6, 2021. Your hero pardoned them.

Interestingly the Azerbaijani school system is currently secular with religious interests working for change, like here. Now that our IRS has allowed pastors to preach politics from the pulpit we're one foot further out the door and down the rungs. That's what I oppose. I am all for secular support services as described, and with my tax money, as long as religion is no where in sight.

Evangelicals, the Inquisition updated to the 21st Century.

Soup kitchens, cots in a dorm, bathroom facilities, a public health clinic, psych services and a way to earn money to get out seems about right. Anything more, let the churches pay for it with what they don't pay in property taxes.

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