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I'd be mighty tempted to shoot a fellow team member that cut away that pack - it could hit another teammate - and what I carried was not just for me - but the entire team. Once I had this communication load - our coms guys were already loaded up and this "box" must have weighed as much or more...

It STILL pizzes me off to hear Fort Bragg referred to as Fort Liberty. The French guy that took second place has to be a Louisiana Cajun that had just moved to France.

I've been strapped with so much crap - I could only "rock" and waddle to exit the plane. It hits the ground first - so it's not like you have to actually support all that weight when you hit the ground. But if I had my druthers - and when I did - I traveled very light. I only brought one meal...

I had my third parachute malfunction two months before I got out - and called it right then. Cigarette roll, one Mae West, and one total malfunction. Figured eventually my reserve might fail . . . So now I actually LAND in aircraft. A whole new experience.