Posted on 10/14/2004 5:02:53 PM PDT by datura
I Can Fly
Five Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit Three (EODMU-3), cling to a line beneath a MH-60S Knighthawk helicopter. The EOD Team was flown over San Diego harbor during a demonstration, known as "spy-rigging," an evolution used by the Navy and Marine Corps for hasty placement and extraction in hostile areas.
In the following photo, this is the view as seen from the rope. For any other old soldiers here that remember "fast roping", this seems to be a great improvement upon that technique which was rather hazardous at best.
For any current active duty soldiers in here that have done this I have a question: Do you remain below the aircraft all of the way to or from your destination, or do they winch you up into the helo? Fast roping out of a Huey (never did it out of a BlackHawk, but the Rangers did in Somalia) had you exiting the bird at the destination only, and wasn't capable of extract. Here's the photos:
isn't this just a mcguire rig doing a stabo type extract?
I can answer your question on this. I was Navy got to do this once as part of an goodwill between squadrons aboard the carrier. You stay connect from point A to point B. It is a heck of a ride. :)
WAY TOOOOO COOL...THANKS
Yes
That looks like FUN! (At least till you get whacked on something hard)
Dude....
Reduce the size of those pictures...
They are HUGE. They saturate my broadband,
what would they do to a modem user!!!
Question: First pic..what's at the ned of the line?..somethign to stabilize it after the troops disengage?
A military helo pilot friend of mine thinks these guys are nuts. He calls them (no offense intended) "Dopes on a rope"
It looks fun... until you get to the part of the briefing about "in the case of uncorrectable osculation the pilot will make an effort to release you over water or trees to help increase the odds of your survival..."
Very cool!
I worked Roach Coach(hot/cold food truck) on Eglin AFB when I was 19, and the EOD guys were my favorite stop.
They were always full of humor, but the craziest guys I'd ever met in the military(and I spent almost all 19 living on AFB's). They had rattlesnake skins on the wall, time bomb clocks and a cave outside to do exercises in. I found out why they were all crazy.
I later dated the Chief Msgt's daughter over that unit and got to see another room inside. They had glass display cases of every type of IED you can think of, from rat traps to ciggarette packs. THey also had a large stock of various sized missiles.
Hey - I'm on a modem, and they don't take that long to load. You folks lucky enough to have broadband have no room to complain.
That second photo makes a great desktop - it gives me the willies every time I look at it.
That must be something to stabilize the rope at the end (?).
A flying EOD team for your viewing pleasure.
modem...users...drowning....(gurgle)
seep=sweep
Done it out of 34's. It was a hoot.
I would LOVE to do this .... or better yet have the helicopt hit 5000 feet and then sky dive off that rope.
It's a litle different but yer close as to the palmer mcguire rigs we used to use......
Stay safe !
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