Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:22:50 -0400, BAR wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 06:11:17 -0400, "RCE" wrote:

"Tim" wrote in message
ups.com...

Even though I didn't mind it, don't volunteer to be a "truck driver"
Better yet, don't volunteer for anything.
MSgt: I need a volunteer for jump school.

Me: Oh - COOL!! I'll go...
Did you uphold the honor of the Corps and get your wings?

Oh yeah.

And I volunteered. :) Everybody in my class was "volunteered".

The funny thing about volunteering in the military. When I was a
survival instructor, I don't think I had one person who actually
volunteered for survival training.

Funny how that works huh? :)

I got my wings in the civilian world, after 1000 jumps.

Good lord - I only got 180 jumps total including 50 civilian jumps
after.

These things called knees finally gave up the ghost after a couple of
bad landings. Discretion was the better part of valor.

I herniated my L5/S1 disk in 1979, went through boot camp, 4 years
reserve, and 7 years skydiving. Now I have torn cartilage in left knee,
arthritis throughout the entire body especially my neck it crunches and
crackles every time I move it. And, I have a five inch scar on my back,
extended butt crack from my laminectomy and partial discectomy back in
'04. Oh, and my right great toe had a chielectomy (removal of bone
spurs) 5 days before the back surgery.

But I had fun.