Navy parachutists in the trees
They should really stick to the “Sea” portion of their name. Five Navy parachutists required extensive help to extricate themselves from the trees on Fort Story, a postage stamp-sized post near Virginia Beach according to the Virginia-Pilot;
It took about two hours to get them all down.
The city was called to help military rescue workers about 9:30 a.m., said Bruce Nedelka, the city’s emergency medical services division chief.
One of the five service members fell to the ground when a tree limb broke, Nedelka said, and was taken to a Norfolk hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Three ambulances, two fire engines, two ladder trucks, two specialty rescue trucks and two battalion chiefs were dispatched to the scene, Nedelka said.
It’d be a lot funnier if someone hadn’t got hurt (and I hope he has a speedy recovery).
I’ve landed in the trees a few times and I was always able to free myself without all of the first-responder drama. One particularly comfortable landing at Husky DZ in Alaska left me with my parachute in one tree and my WICI bag (CIWI bag?) in another – like a big hammock. Best landing ever. I deployed the reserve parachute and climbed down the OUTSIDE. It was a little harder getting the platoon’s radios and M60 tripod and ammo out of the WICI bag, though – but that’s why they paid me that extra $55/month..
Category: Military issues
The song “It’s Raining Men” comes to mind. . . . (chucklesnort)
The song “It’s Raining Men” comes to mind
insert rimshot here…
Woodman, you mean post DADT right?
“Look guythz, there growing on treethz now…”
I came in the trees one day and hung upside down about 10 feet off the ground. The DZ guys came running over and asked me if I was ok. When I said yeah they left. Kinda an iffy prop getting down but i did it without broken bones.
Ft. Story is a beautiful little post. Did a LOGEX down there once.