"How much time do I have?!?" joke
While attending US Army's Airborne School...
Day before our first jump, the instructors (known as SGT Airbornes,
students are called 'Ariborne') demonstrated all the possible
malfunctions one might encounter. After watching a total malfunction,
i.e. the parachute fails to deploy, one of the students asked: "SGT
Airborne, if we have a complete malfunction, how much time do we have to
deploy our reserve parachutes?"
"Airborne, you have the REST of your life to deploy that reserve!"
Gulp.
After enlisting in the 82nd Airborne Division, I eagerly asked my Recruiter what I could expect from jump school.
"Well," he said, "it's three weeks long."
"What else," I asked.
"The first week they separate the men from the more...
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