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That could be a conundrum, how will the State know they have qualified Volunteers? I think they will still have enough volunteers in the end. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Personally if the rig is custom fitted and your using the articulate harness, I would not get the cut in lats. But my rig may have not needed it to fit me proper. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

He's only been charged, and had the equivalent of a preliminary hearing thus far. Trial is still in the future. Ooops! I thought he had moved beyond the article 32 (?) hearing, stupid misleading thread title! Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

"everything he does is for political gain" you guys are absolutely naive & delusional lol. Cheers Shc It seems true, it is his job (being a Politician), if he doesn't do things to keep his job then he is unemployed. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

The one thing good that came out of this is how vulnerable and easy our web based data is to access. Manning wasn't even a "spy" and look what he was able to do! Since he was convicted of the Violating the UCMJ and in the passing of Classified Documents, what does it mean for his accomplices? Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

You obviously do not read or pay attention real well. Lawrocket has done a lot of traveling. SO now that you got your name calling and character bashing out, how about the thread topic? any thing real there to add? Or just trolling again? Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

It would be difficult but not completely impossible to physically block the straight; some mines and a couple of Silkworm batteries at the 50km choke point and you've got a pretty effective blockade. With the largest supertankers having drafts of 20m or more, it wouldn't take too many being sunk to put a serious crimp in the amount of traffic that could pass. Since you can't debate the man, attack the man. Calling him an expert in incest? low man, real low. You're not worth the effort. You may have had a valid argument in the beginning of this thread but you have shown your not capable of adult behavior and actual debate. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

We are discussing SFO, that is the UK, the place you don't financially support, or do you? Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

This, the long version, seems to take the wind out of the sails of those who used the short version to scream "Murder". I see plenty of weapons in their hands, plus shaving been there and seeing that the enemy hid in civilian groups and wore civilian clothing understand the battle field. It sucks that the reporters got killed, but I do not see it as an act of "Murder" in out State side sense. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Does it match the description of the one linked in post 235? Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Is it lower per SFO's averages? There are many cities in the country that have a lower UE average, but it is higher than the cities average of the past. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Your story reminds me of the final scenes from Raiders of the Lost Ark: Army Intelligence man: 'We have top men working on it, Dr Jones...' Indiana Jones: 'WHAT men?' Army Intelligence: 'Top men...' I'll admit your Cooper Fable is one of the most entertaining, if not actually fact. Get out of town. You are funnier than an ant trying to climb out of a sand hole with a wooden crutch. Just more fiction from a fiction writer. Glad you are enjoying the presentation of honest to God realism. We need to put Bob Hope's big white hat on Jerry as he rides the nuclear bomb out of the bomb bay doors, YEE-hay!!! Then you could make it your story. Now your confusing your movies characters! That was Slim Pickens. At least use the attention to detail you use in your made up cooper story in your rebuttals! Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Which video are we talking about? I have seen one where the individuals are moving weapons from a truck and hiding them in a ditch, but I do not recall this one. I would like to see it, if possible, to understand why it is the oft repeated talking point. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

It is a different "test" now though. The economy is worse than when they did their study. Businesses have already come out and said they froze hiring in preparation of the higher min wage. SFO will slowly legislate it self in to further dispair. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Now you are just acting out. Kind of embarrasing to read. +1 Maybe he should follow his own advice and step out, while others actually try to have a cordial discussion. The truth in the title is true, the rich are different. The reasons they are rich and ways they became rich, are varied. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Your advice is good all around. Looks like the "unfinished" and none load bearing end of the tape as well. I would postulate that it was a 99% complete hot knife cut that began to fray, and the packer had no vested interest in the repair or used the "good for one more Jump" theory. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

...and rides, dare I say it...a motorcycle. Holly Crap thats like the trifecta of crazy man! That Dude is just plain nuts! Oh wait. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Including his son, over his - feelings of guilt- (paraphrased). Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

he'd had one drink (so not 'drunk') and was quite capable of finding the bomb. however the police sticking to the absolute letter of the law arrested him... As this "what if" game is all fantasy, billvon's fantasy example - not mine... You are the guy who made post #1 right? Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

I didn't Instruct, I said "Grad". I.E. Graduate of the NWTC BMMC and MLC's Summer and Winter (Four phases) and IWRC (only one a year is run as you know and it is for SOF and Cord Level Recon assets) makes five phases, although the IWRC is not needed for the identifier. But as you know, once an NCO in the Military you are never NOT and "Instructor".

he'd had one drink (so not 'drunk') and was quite capable of finding the bomb. however the police sticking to the absolute letter of the law arrested him... As this "what if" game is all fantasy, it matters not. But you got people thinking, and you got attention for a while out of it. Kudos for both. Manning violated the UCMJ, and was prosecuted for it. It is others like your self that try to justify it as OK for a different reason than the ones even Manning stated. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Please permit me to quote, without further comment, the following: "Aerodynamics is a beautifully INTELLECTUAL [italics in the original source] discipline, incorporating elements from a millennium of human thought that finally coalesced during the nineteenth century to produce the exponential growth in powered flight that we see today". SOURCE: Dr. John D. Anderson, Jr., "A History of Aerodynamics and Its Impact on Flying Machines", page 3, Cambridge University Press, 1997. Relevance? Maybe you are not learned in Skydiving or Military Freefall Parachuting? That information is relavent to the discussion. Having that experience is germain to the argument. Matt As I understand your remarks, the egg came before the chicken and the cart goes in front of the horse. I am not talking in metaphors or colloquialisms. His argument was Cooper could not have controlled the exit. First he claimed the bag would be the issue, then airspeed. He has since added it is due to being inexperienced, also not entirely true, now we have the drinks to consider. I think the math will rule the drinks to a "near none", if not a, "none factor". Wiki shows, when Cooper did the HiJacking, from 2:50 PM to 8:13 PM one Bourbon and Soda was ordered. It does not say he had any more or if he even finished that one drink. If that is accurate, the drinks are a none factor. I guess that makes him inexperienced for the times then, aye Twardo? Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

So we need to find a skydive newbie, with no survival training, the wrong clothing and having had a few drinks? then this can be tested? I agree Amazon, Twardo, Quade, Myself and many others would taint the test. I too am a NWTC Grad (all five phases taught there now) and spent three years and three months assigned to Alaska. I jumped fromt the 727, with many a "newer" jumper, it was the thing for the Civilian Jumpers to flock too, they didn't jump a "jet" every week like I did.. All of us got stable and enjoyed our jumps. So we find we went in a circle. The question is to KNOW if any there is any actual documented training for any of the subjects in freefall parachuting. Word of mouth doesn't count it is hear say. An actual DD 214 listing or Grad Cert would be a start. Then to know their extent, if any, in Woodsmanship. Then we look in to his inebriation. How many drinks did he have? over how long a time? who saw him ACTUALLY drink them? Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Please permit me to quote, without further comment, the following: "Aerodynamics is a beautifully INTELLECTUAL [italics in the original source] discipline, incorporating elements from a millennium of human thought that finally coalesced during the nineteenth century to produce the exponential growth in powered flight that we see today". SOURCE: Dr. John D. Anderson, Jr., "A History of Aerodynamics and Its Impact on Flying Machines", page 3, Cambridge University Press, 1997. Relevance? Maybe you are not learned in Skydiving or Military Freefall Parachuting? That information is relavent to the discussion. Having that experience is germain to the argument. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

I agree I do not think he came out of the woods, however even an inexperienced jumper would have been able to get stable after leaving the plane. A low experience jumper, a mid range military trained survivalist, with a little luck could have made and survived the jump, and then walked out. It is not impossible. I find your reasoning for your arguments, incorrect. Does this mean your withdrawing you challenge, since it was excepted? Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!