Procedure is to make eye contact with the jumpmaster and hand off the static line firmly. That way you know the JM is ready for you and the line doesn’t get caught or tangled. That doof dropped it as he was walking.
What a screw-up.
That’s a C-141 in the vid. Jumped out of that plane many times; that was my life for five years.
If I were a woman alone on the street, I can’t think of anything scarier than a buncha obviously-Islamic men approaching me.
Too bad they can’t carry big-ass guns in Europe. I used to be against concealed carry, largely. But a woman has no hope against that. She needs the boomstick and to lay down shots non-stop till they Quran-thumping asses drop.
One of the many reasons I dislike living in apartments or condos is that if a fire starts, you’re fucked. You can’t get out. By the time you know about the blaze it’s often too late.
In a house, you can just break out a window and jump out. Even if you’re on the second story, you might fracture your ankle or something but you’ll live. Good luck jumping from the 23rd floor of a tower.
It’s odd to think that even the first Harry Potter book would now be too complex for the younger Gen Z folks and all of Gen Alpha. They don’t and cannot read and, basically, their brains are broken.
The future is not looking so bright. The only glow I see there is Putin nukin’.
Detonation of TM-62 mine storage, which Russians hid under a bridge in the Belgorod region, as a result FPV drone strike. pic.twitter.com/ZCc9r9NdVM
— Special Kherson Cat ๐๐บ๐ฆ (@bayraktar_1love) August 23, 2025
Damn. That’s a whole lot of TM-62s. It looks like there are about 160 of them there. It’s impossible at that rez to determine what variants there are, but let’s assume standard HE TM-62s. Each has 17 pounds of high explosives. Therefore, 17×160 = 2720 pounds of mega-kablooey.
And that would make anything within a thousand meters around there pretty gooey.
One time on a hairy jump in the army in too-high winds, a buddy of mine slammed into the side of a field ambulance at 30mph.
Somehow he broke no bones but sprained nearly every major muscle in his body and ended up with a huge amount of bruising. As I was talking to him later, I observed it was some sort of weird anti-paradox: he crashed into the ambulance that was needed to help him since he’d plowed into an ambulance.
He was not quite as amused by my observation as I was.
He made a complete recovery. And if you’re curious, video of the jump is below. Read the poster’s comment too. That was a very shitty jump that never should’ve happened, especially since it was done just to show off.
I know most of y’all are not used to looking at military jumps, but the paratroopers should not be moving nearly-horizontally across the screen like that.
A very bad day.
Holy shit, just noticed these comments. That was my friend!
I don’t think I realized when it began how much Covid would deeply mentally scar people. A lot of people just went frickin’ nuts and never recovered. I knew one personally. Tons more on the internet.
The Covidians really will be ranting about Covid in nursing homes in 50 years and the poor attendants will have no damn idea what they are going on about.
In fact, everyone was not alright. All 15 on board died.
My question is, what kind of doofclown fights the person driving the vehicle you’re riding in? A very, very stupid one, that’s what kind. Unfortunately, it got her and 14 other people final destinationed.