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Marines: Someone cut lines of jumpers' chutes
CNN.com ^
| Wednesday, October 2, 2002
| AP
Posted on 10/02/2002 4:49:42 AM PDT by damnlimey
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:01:21 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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CAMP LEJEUNE, North Carolina (AP) -- Suspension lines on 13 parachutes were cut before a training exercise last month, forcing three jumpers to use their reserve chutes, the Marine Corps said Tuesday.
The tampering was discovered September 21 when five Marines jumped from a C-17 aircraft during heavy equipment parachute training at Camp Lejeune.
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I expect the culprit will be experiencing a few malfunctions of his own when he's found.
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posted on
10/02/2002 4:49:42 AM PDT
by
damnlimey
To: damnlimey
Sometimes you get a psycho rigger who sabotages a few lines/chutes before he is found out. This sounds more organized...
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posted on
10/02/2002 4:55:50 AM PDT
by
2banana
To: 2banana
I trust that there are riggers that pack the mains, and then there are others that pack reserves, and never the twain shall meet?
To: damnlimey
Is it true that those who pack the chutes are, on occasion, ordered to jump using a chute chosen at random?
To: damnlimey
...and who will be the first Freeper to suggest that the guilty party was an illegal alien...?
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posted on
10/02/2002 5:11:32 AM PDT
by
Grut
To: damnlimey
Last time I checked (15 years ago) chutes were traceable back to the rigger, the inspector and so forth.
Also, last time I checked very few Marines are on jump status. Force Recon and para rescue types. Most of those guys don't jump static lines though.
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posted on
10/02/2002 5:14:36 AM PDT
by
P7M13
To: Calvin Locke
I trust that there are riggers that pack the mains, and then there are others that pack reserves, and never the twain shall meet? Yep, and that are loads of inspections but it sounds like someone rally knew the system.
"If my main don't open wide - I got a reserve by my side"
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posted on
10/02/2002 5:17:14 AM PDT
by
2banana
To: Grut
...and who will be the first Freeper to suggest that the guilty party was an illegal alien...? I'll be the first to suggest it could have been a member of The Religion of Peace.
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posted on
10/02/2002 5:17:47 AM PDT
by
Flyer
To: Grut
...and who will be the first Freeper to suggest that the guilty party was an illegal alien...?Naw, a legal one, like the Eygyptian sergeant @ Bragg.
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posted on
10/02/2002 5:23:56 AM PDT
by
putupon
To: Flyer
"...and who will be the first Freeper to suggest that the guilty party was an illegal alien...? "
It was an illegal alien or a Demoncrat. I would guess the latter.
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posted on
10/02/2002 5:27:24 AM PDT
by
auggy
To: Flyer
That's my bet too.
I'm not a Marine, but I expect that all the chutes were packed by active duty servicemen. That precludes illegal immigrants.
To: damnlimey
Three parachutes malfunctioned If my main don't open wide
I have another one by my side
If that one don't open too
Move your a$$ I'm coming through
or the PC version:
If that on don't open as well
I have a one-way ticket to hell
To: 2banana
"My main don't open, I'll use my reserve.
My reserve don't open I'll lose my nerve."
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posted on
10/03/2002 7:42:55 AM PDT
by
agrandis
To: 2banana
For a second there I though you had used the "N" word.
Now that I think about it, you should be ashamed anyway since it is so similar, you know such as Niggardly etc.
It could be a psycho, but it certainly could be terrorist too.
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posted on
10/03/2002 7:48:46 AM PDT
by
yarddog
To: damnlimey
Probably some peaceful Islamic in the employ of the parachute company.
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posted on
10/03/2002 7:52:43 AM PDT
by
ZULU
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