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So this would be your first post in more than two decades. Your first post this year. I'm sorry but I just drank my last beer and I could use another. YOU OWE BEER CSA #699 Muff #3804

YOU ARE THE GREATEST THANK YOU. I'd offer you a beer but I just finished the last one. CSA #699 Muff #3804

Well I have had a couple drinks and feel good right now so I'll say a woman who will swallow. I personally want to be wanted for my body and not my mind or is it the other way around. CSA #699 Muff #3804

I'm trying to change my avitar but it doesn't want to switch to the new one. I have changed my profile to "no pic" and restarted the computer as well as uploaded the "new pic" and restarted. But it always goes back to my old pic even after a new post. I know this has been posted a million times but I have had a couple drinks and don't feel like doing a sure.

I'm sip'in a Corona and munching some Jo Jo's. I'll share if you want some. CSA #699 Muff #3804

My twins with the Abraham Lincoln and builds the engines for the Hornets. CSA #699 Muff #3804

hay, my parents get the neighbors cat in there house all the time. The damb thing comes in through the doggy door and pisses in the house. I did a little hunting of my own but misjudged 37 yards for 35 and dropped my carbon arrow from my compound bow a foot short of his chest as it was stalking a birds nest with baby chicks in it, in my parents yard I might add. And this same cat has kills 4 years out of 5 worth of baby Robins nesting in there apple tree. I say save the birds kill the cats. CSA #699 Muff #3804

My first for now but not my last. CSA #699 Muff #3804

Just had to add a couple of yours truely from Iraq and last weeks boat trip around the Puget Sound (WA). I think you have all seen the same statue of Sadam on CNN. It's the same one you all saw pulled down in Baghdad and yes I'm picking his nose. CSA #699 Muff #3804

Thanks, You don't know how much it meant to us all over there to know we had friends like you all who supported us. Most of the time I would see only negative things from the news about people in the states protesting against us and what WE DID AS OUR JOB. Its the same as a skydiving incident and a non skydivers prospective of what happened. You see the news but will never know the behind the scenes truth of what really happened and why we did what we did. I ask you all this- If a combat Vet. wants to talk he will, Please don't ask him for a battle story and make him relive his horrors. I can say it is great to be home and drinking BEER again. CSA #699 Muff #3804

My God they make it look easy. If it REALLY were only that simple. Thanks for the vid. CSA #699 Muff #3804

It's a little off the subject but I didn't want to start a new thread. What are the current prices for a New Lightning canopy now. I'd give PD a ring but I'm unable to do that. I'm looking around a 143. CSA #699 Muff #3804

Ok, I know I'm not the only one who has read there books I just finished the newest book- "The Unstopable Bathroom Reader" and have also read there "AHHH Inspiring Bathroom Reader. I like to think of them as my useless facts book. If you haven't read any of Uncle Johns Bathroom readers from the Bathroom Reader Institute your missing out on some good reading material. The books are full of useless information and stories of about every subject. The books were designed to be read in the bathroom so there are stories and facts of various lengths depending on how much time you plan on sitting. CSA #699 Muff #3804

If I weren't 2 weeks from returning to the states and I was allowed to travel there I would most definitely take you up on that offer. CSA #699 Muff #3804

I thank you all for your knowledge. Now all I need to do is get out of the sand box (Iraq) and back to jumping. CSA #699 Muff #3804

I thank you all for your info I will keep up the practice and in the not so distant future plan to attend a camp. Oh, What is a good wing load? I'm 170, 190 out the door and I have been jumping a 143 lightning. Do you think a 160 would be a better choice as I won't be descending as fast with the lighter wing load. I tend to have a problem with being a bit low when rotating to bottom. Q- what is the best way to get the needed lift when a little low -rear risers or a little toggle flair? I tend to use the rear risers. CSA #699 Muff #3804

I'm kinda new to CReW I have only a dozen or so jumps most 3-way rotation. My question for all you experienced dogs is this- at what ability/ skill level would you give your blessings to a student of yours to attend some of these CReW camps. Are they the types of camps that a person with no skill could attend? I have only done about 10- 12 CReW jumps again mostly 3-way rotations. I'm still doing the sashay(?) and not yet rotating over the top. I haven't done any corner docking yet and my docking from below is a bit slow (me coming from below, coach locking onto me). I feel I need more skill before attending such a camp. What do you all think? If it helps my teachers are Vern Bates & Ken Smith. I'm currently deployed to the mid-east (heading home next month) so it wouldn't be till next year before I would attend such a camp. Scott CSA #699 Muff #3804

Now I can put a face to the person I have talked to when ever I have demod a PD canopy. CSA #699 Muff #3804

Again, I personally don't have an issue with them. However, I do agree that there should not be a requirement to have them. I did have one job in the past that require a hair sample to get the job. I was working as a materials handler in a Uranium Plant. In my place of work a lot could go wrong and one must be clear headed, so unless it is in a work environment where someone could cause harm to themselves or others as a result of having been under or is currently under the influence them testing should not be needed. We were also required to take a piss test every three weeks but it was more for radiation testing and drug testing. CSA #699 Muff #3804

I personally do not do drugs. I never have and never will do what goes on after hours at some DZ's. I have no problem with drug testing as I have nothing to hide. It is each persons choice to do what they will. I have to agree that the hair sample is a better way to test as I can see no way to cheat the test unless you shave all body hair so there unable to sample you. Now I have done countless piss test in my military career and personally I hate to have someone watch me pee. To me the piss method is an invasion of privacy in that I don't agree with someone watching me do my business. Now I can make an exception if the person is a woman and I will be turning my head and coughing afterward CSA #699 Muff #3804

Well there is something about Mary (Flyangel2) SantAngelo that I admire. I know, all the knowledge you have given me over the past couple years. All those in my CSWR Family- Larry Foit Toni Albano Lee McMillin Scott Schaffer I have learned so much from so many people. That to me is what makes this sport so great. Those that have molded us to make us the skydivers/people we are today. BEER CSA #699 Muff #3804

I had only 24 jumps before my status was medically terminated. For some reason the doctors feel I was unfit for jump status again after having cancer. It was a year and a half before I started sport jumping. As for the logging it is up to the individual. I keep my military S/L log in with my sport log but do I count them in my total numbers, no. People ask me my numbers and I tell them I have this # sport jumps and this # military S/L. I feel the only thing that military S/L gave me for sport jumping was the experience of exiting an aircraft and canopy experience (emergency procedures for malfunctions). As for the PLF I do believe it should be taught in the first jump course as it has saved MANY jumper from sustaining much worse injuries while crash landing a ram air. It has been five years since my last military S/L but the PLF mentality instilled by my time in the 82nd is still there. Even after nearly 300 sport jumps I still have to tell myself it is OK to do a stand up landing. The hardest part of my student progression wasn't the jump itself it was landing. My first eight jumps were a flair and PLF when my feet touched ground. Again, it is up to the jumper to count it all as one if they want. That's just my two cents. CSA #699 Muff #3804

Can I get on that wait list Mary

I agree that everyone should pack there own gear unless your on a team and doing back to back loads then a packer is in order. I know people who haven't packed there own gear in several hundred jumps. WHY? Because they say it sucks and they would rather pay someone else to do it for them. How are these people ever going to know what is wrong with there gear if all they do is put it on for a jump and then throw it into a corner at home. I myself will never have another person pack my rig again after it resulted in a pilot chute in tow. IT"S MY GEAR AND MY RESPONSIBILITY to know what is going on with it. If I have a question I ask my rigger. In fact I do it every time I make a change of any kind to my equipment even after swapping out mains to make sure all lines are strait and 3rings are assembles properly. This is my security as I haven't screwed anything up. I haven't been able to jump for the last year and my memory is rusty but isn't there a section in the SIM about equipment checks. I know for an A license you need to know how to change a closing loop shouldn't they add the installation of 3rings as well. To not know how to maintain your gear I believe is just as bad as complacency in the air. CSA #699 Muff #3804

I have only done my night jumps well after sun set and can only add to what has already been said. KNOW THE AREA YOUR JUMPING & ALTITUDE AWARENESS. At night all your usual reference points are no longer there. The DZ and surrounding area looks a lot different with only street and building lights. It is easy to get confused and not know where the DZ is even with vehicle lights lighting up the landing area for you. Other than that it is an experience that is hard to describe freefalling into blackness. It only gets better the more people you add. CSA #699 Muff #3804