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Awesome scores all around in RW, its a shame that the weather cancelled so much of the meet though History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

You like to drink alone? Quote That's just funny!! History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

They definitely deserved it. Great work. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

looks like only 1 more jump for 8 way too... damm, too bad, AS was on a 1 point per jump comeback! Quote They very well would have made that up too. Overall I'm not happy with the fact that the WM was held in a place known for weather like this, and with notnearly the logistical support needed for an event of this size. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

Well ok I do not have a beautiful Asian girl for you to marry...but other than that....LOL Quote Well get to lookin girl, Dan needs him a geisha girl!!! On the Airspeed and France note if someone could do me a favor and tie the French teams shoelaces together on jump run, that would be super I now have my entire team cheering for Airspeed here and I'm the only civilian skydiver on the team!! That rox History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

Betsy is right, Airspeed has pulled it out from behind before, I wouldn't count them out yet. But this is probably the most well prepared team they've encountered in a long time. I'm still holdin out for my boys, and gal I also wanted to say thanks to Betsy for keepin me updated with as busy as she's been back home, I'm in Florida for work and unfortunately have little to no net access History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

4 way N-20-16 K-J-C-G-3 D-19-B-6 L-14-10 F-17-M-2 21-13-11 1-5-A 4-E-H-15 9-O-8 P-7-Q-12 jump-off 22-18-19 8 Way 8-O-Q-F 16-15-9 4-J-6 19-20-D 7-5-1 10-12-A H-P-22-21 18-17-K G-M-N-2 3-13-11 jump-off B-C-E-14 The 4 way draw is definitely not the fastest we've seen this year, it looks like there's a few real slow, technical rounds, should be an awesome meet, I'm just gonna throw a prediction out there and say the winning average will be between 21.8 and 22.3. Just a guess History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

first compeitition jumps start in less than 24 hours History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

yeah, but if an all woman's team did break 20 it would certainly diffuse a lot of discussions we've had lately Quote exactly why I'm crossing my fingers that it will happen History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

I have a feeling we are going to see the females break the 20 avg. mark in the world meet. People do amazing things when the pressure is on. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

It would be even more fun if you stop off at the butchers shop before pre-jump. Quote we were talking about that today in the team room, right before we jump i'm gonna take a steak and ru it all over the guy in front of me. the trick is you don't have to be a fast swimmer, you just can't be the slowest!!! History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

As soon as the omniscore issue is resolved I will be "working late". Quote My team is going to be in Eglin AFB for the duration of the WM, I guarantee my team is going to hate my guts while I'm up every night on the PC checking the scores and watchin videos while they are trying to sleep. Although we have been told if that storm in the gulf turns into a hurricane the trip may be cancelled. that would suck we're gettin a SL jump from -500 feet into the gulf out the back of a chinook(into shark infested waters!), thats gonna be fun History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

we have a few days left, as long as they get it up by then, if not I have a fleet of carrier pigeons that could carry updates back across the atlantic. We should know the results by winter migration History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

A guy named Younes Abbas Shamari. He's a carpenter in Baghdad who is trying to run his shop without power most of the day. But what would he know, eh? Quote Sorry it took me so long to jump back into this convo getntlemen I was pre-occuppied last night. Bill, a few observations about the statistics you mentioned that I've noticed during my visits to Iraq. You are right about there being some places that are having power issues, but well over 90% of the country has power most of the day. The places that are having power issues are having them as a result of insurgent attacks, not US involvement. Insurgents are attacking power stations that the US is trying to guard and rebuild. The same thing goes with the oil production as well. The city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq sits on over 7% of the entire worlds oil supply, when people say oil runs through the streets they aren't joking, I'd step out of a vehicle and into an ankle deep puddle of oil up there. But at least once a week insurgents would bomb an oil line and set the production back. Production was down over 50% as a direct result of insurgents. So it's not the fault of the US that there are so many problems, insurgents are attacking these sights in an attempt to make us look bad, and people blaming the US for these issues are falling for the psyops campaign led by the insurgents. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

You want to look for teammates, look for people you can have fun with! Personalities that work well together will achieve much more. And don't forget to have fun History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

The only people who believe this are ones who desperately need to believe that we've 'saved' Iraq or something. Some facts: Pre-invasion oil production:2.5 million barrels/day Current oil production: 2 million barrels/day Power available in Badghad for 16 hours/day (average) before the invasion Power now available four hours a day. Pre-invasion power generation capability in Iraq:4,500 megawatts Today: 3900 megawatts Demand: 7000 megawatts peak Destroyed hospitals we (the US) promised to rebuild: 180 Contracts awarded: 142 Hospitals we (the US) rebuilt: 6 (as of June 2006) Quote I have no idea where that statistic about power came from but I can tell you right now it's completely wrong. Actually Bill there are many parts of the country that have power 24 hours a day, and this isn't coming from any news source, this is coming from me trying to sneak up on some little house in the middle of nowhere while there outdoor lights were on at 2 AM. Trust me they have power almost all the time. As for the oil production stats and teh hospitals being rebuilt, I have no clue so I won't comment. And Skydekker, I love your argument, "your president here's voices in his head." You say that the country has been completely destroyed because the poeple are not what they once were, yet most Iraqis will tell you they are better off as a poeple now that they are not under Saddam. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

Iraq looks pretty destroyed to me....and that is due to the voices in the head of your president. You don't think that is scary? Quote Iraq is nowhere near destroyed. The infrastructure now is far better than it ever was under the Saddam regime. Because the news shows a few pics of some bombed out buildings I wouldn't exactly say that the entire country looks like that. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

IT'S GETTIN READY TO START!!! History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

the video I saw wasn't a world record, definitely impressive but not a record. it may have been another round you are speaking of, if someone could post the video of what's supposed to be the record or post the draw there's a few 4 way people here that could tell you if it could be a world record. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

Caveats: only over six rounds and not in comp. Quote six rounds or not a 20.2 is nothing to laugh at, that's amazing. here's the draw for that meet 10-P-19 3-K-A-14 17-5-6 J-16-M-20 9-13-8 F-Q-O-D-N 22-7-4 L-11-1 History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

Surely the insurgent attacks on US soldiers in Iraq should similarly be counted as terrorist attacks on the US? In that case they've not diminished but hit record highsQuote How can you count those as terrorist attacks, in Iraq we have placed ourselves on the battlefield with the terrorists in an effort to draw them into the fight. That's not a terrorist attack, it's called combat. You are right about how the majority of those attacks in the list though were against soldiers, kind of funny how the US public couldn't give two shits less about the loss of a few soldiers, but when civilians get attacked its horrible. Oh wait, I forgot, we're soldiers, we're expendable and mean nothing to the public we protect History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

I had this emailed to me today and figrued I would share it with everyone. Take it as you'd like but to me it says that waging the GWOT is exactly what we need to be doing. They've been taking the fight to us for years, and a series of presidents did little to nothing in response. Finally we have a president who steps up to the plate to show that we mean buisness and people do nothing more than throw out claims of how he's causing the terrorist problem and should've seen the attacks coming in the first place. I can't remember what the exact number is anymore but i used to have the statistics for all the terrorist attacks commited against US assests during the Clinton administration, and if I remember correctly the number was just short of 100. Recently terrorist attacks against the US have all but diminished. Quote AMERICA NEEDS TO WAKE UP! That's what we think we heard on the 11th of September 2001 (When more than 3,000 Americans were killed) and maybe it was, but I think it should have been "Get Out of Bed!" In fact, I think the alarm clock has been buzzing since 1979 and we have continued to hit the snooze button and roll over for a few more minutes of peaceful sleep since then. It was a cool fall day in November 1979 in a country going through a religious and political upheaval when a group of Iranian students attacked and seized the American Embassy in Tehran. This seizure was an outright attack on American soil; it was an attack that held the world's most powerful country hostage and paralyzed a Presidency. The attack on this sovereign U. S. embassy set the stage for events to follow for the next 25 years. America was still reeling from the aftermath of the Vietnam experience and had a serious threat from the Soviet Union when then, President Carter, had to do something. He chose to conduct a clandestine raid in the desert. The ill-fated mission ended in ruin, but stood as a symbol of America's inability to deal with terrorism. America's military had been decimated and down sized/right sized since the end of the Vietnam War. A poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorly organized military was called on to execute a complex mission that was doomed from the start. Shortly after the Tehran experience, Americans began to be kidnapped and killed throughout the Middle East. America could do little to protect her citizens living and working abroad. The attacks against US soil continued! In April of 1983 a large vehicle packed with high explosives was driven into the US Embassy compound in Beirut When it explodes, it kills 63 people. The alarm went off again and America hit the Snooze Button once more. Then just six short months later in 1983 a large truck heavily laden down with over 2500 pounds of T NT smashed through the main gate of the US Marine Corps headquarters in Beirut and 241 US servicemen are killed. America mourns her dead and hit the Snooze Button once more. Two months later in December 1983, another truck loaded with explosives is driven into the US Embassy in Kuwait, and America continues her slumber. The following year, in September 1984, another van was driven into the gate of the US Embassy in Beirut and America slept. Soon the terrorism spreads to Europe. In April 1985 a bomb explodes in a restaurant frequented by US soldiers in Madrid. Then in August 1985 a Volkswagen loaded with explosives is driven into the main gate of the US Air Force Base at Rhein-Main, 22 are killed and the snooze alarm is buzzing louder and louder as US interests are continually attacked. Fifty-nine days later in 1985 a cruise ship, the Achille Lauro is hijacked and we watched as an American in a wheelchair is singled out of the passenger list and executed. The terrorists then shift their tactics to bombing civilian airliners when they bomb TWA Flight 840 in April of 1986 that killed 4 and the most tragic bombing, Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in1988, killing 259. Clinton treated these terrorist acts as crimes; in fact we are still trying to bring these people to trial. These are acts of war. The wake up alarm is getting louder and louder. The terrorists decide to bring the fight to America. In January 1993, two CIA agents are shot and killed as they enter CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. The following month, February 1993, a group of terrorists are arrested after a rented van packed with explosives is driven into the underground parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City. Six people are killed and over 1000 are injured. Still this is a crime and not an act of war? The Snooze alarm is depressed again. Then in November 1995 a car bomb explodes at a US military complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia killing seven service men and women. A few months later in June of 1996, another truck bomb explodes only 35 yards from the US military compound in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. It destroys the Khobar Towers, a US Air Force barracks, killing 19 and injuring over 500. The terrorists are getting braver and smarter as they see that America does not respond decisively. They move to coordinate their attacks in a simultaneous attack on two US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. These attacks were planned with precision. They kill 224. America responds with cruise missile attacks and goes back to sleep. The USS Cole was docked in the port of Aden, Yemen for refueling on 12 October 2000, when a small craft pulled along side the ship and exploded killing 17 US Navy Sailors. Attacking a US War Ship is an act of war, but we sent the FBI to investigate the crime and went back to sleep. And of course you know the events of 11 September 2001. Most Americans think this was the first attack against US soil or in America. How wrong they are. America has been under a constant attack since 1979 and we chose to hit the snooze alarm and roll over and go back to sleep!!! In the news lately we have seen lots of finger pointing from every high official in government over what they knew and what they didn't know. But if you've read the papers and paid a little attention I think you can see exactly what they knew. You don't have to be in the FBI or CIA or on the National Security Council to see the pattern that has been developing since 1979. I think we have been in a war for the past 25 years and it will continue until we as a people decide enough is enough! America needs to "Get out of Bed" and act decisively now. America has been changed forever. We have to be ready to pay the price and make the sacrifice to ensure our way of life continues. We cannot afford to keep hitting the snooze button again and again and roll over and go back to sleep. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto said "... it seems all we have done is awakened a sleeping giant." This is the message we need to disseminate to terrorists around the world. This is not a political thing to be hashed over in an election year this is an AMERICAN thing. This is about our Freedom and the Freedom of our children in years to come. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

I saw TJ swoopin his today at mile hi and he was doin some awesome things with it. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

New CISM World Record set in round 2 ---> 32 pnts Quote what was the draw? History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

Indeed. Penguins are such peaceful creatures. Quote Kallend made a joke?!?! Alright, who is this, and what have you done with our Kallend History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower