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The importance of this type of training

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just keeps us on our toes for if we

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have to jump into a combat zone , we

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have to jump into all kinds of elements ,

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times a day with our equipment , so

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this really just keeps us in tip top

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shape . Essentially what we do on jump

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days is you go through all the steps

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that you need to . You work on your

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PLFs you go through all your .

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Emergency procedures , things like that .

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You do mock up aircraft and exits based

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off of what chalk order you're in ,

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then you get ready to don your

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parachute and set you up for a good

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clean exit out of the aircraft . The

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amount of jumps we do typically each

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year , it's kind of ramped up since the

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unit was first stood up back in 2019 .

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I think their goal is to have 6 to 8

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jumps a year . And for this year , this

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is our first jump for calendar year

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2025 . This will be our 3rd or 4th for

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the fiscal year . We also have a jump

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scheduled next month . So we're jumping

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out of a C-130 Hercules today using the

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T11 Army parachute system as well as

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the C6 parachute system . We're doing 3

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lifts with 220 jumpers total . Uh ,

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doing nighttime airborne operation with

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the follow on mission . The the biggest

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impacts with weather are usually always

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gonna be wind . I mean wet disease and ,

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uh , issues with rain definitely affect

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it , but if it's too windy , we don't

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want guys getting hurt unnecessarily ,

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don't want to push them out into

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something where they can't control

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their parachute . The most difficult

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thing is being certain of your work

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because everybody's lives are depending

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on you . So if you're , if you're not

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positive and you're not sure that what

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you're doing is correct , then it could

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get somebody killed . So ensuring that

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you are 100% certain in what you're

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doing , ensuring that you verify and

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check everything properly is , is the

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biggest point that gets reinforced as

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being a jumpmaster . I mean , at the

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end of the day , anybody can join the

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army . You volunteer once , but it

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takes a special kind of person to

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volunteer for a second time to throw

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themselves out of an aircraft . So

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definitely , definitely takes somebody

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who's committed . My favorite part

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about being airborne is being airborne .

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Once you leave that door , there's no

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other feeling that you can replicate in

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the world of just floating through the

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sky . It's , it's one of the best

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feelings ever .