From:	"Freddy Frypp no more" <JAMES-CUENO@*********.edu>
Subject:	Re: HALO drop, Maxim raid part 1
Date:	Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:48:54 CST

>>>>>[Whoa, night HALO jump with inexperienced jumpers depending on
computers to pull the ripcord, dropping through alerted defenses.

Ballsy. Stupid, but ballsy.

You kids'll be suffering for burning all of that karma in your next
lives, you know that, don't you?

We used to do that until the FNGs started burning in. Then we tried
glide approaches from way the hell out over the lake - until wasps
started tearing us up.

One question: who's dumb idea was it to carry back-ups? At the
speeds you kids shoulda been dropping and the altitudes you shoulda
been pulling at, even a trained, augmented human would have trouble
finding the time to decide his 'chute hasn't opened, cut it away,
fall far enough to avoid fouling in the bad 'chute and deploy the
back-up with any chance of hitting the ground in one piece. We
figured the back-up was dead weight so our HALO jumpers replaced the
weight of a spare with more ammo. Now you know why we had trouble
with FNGs burning in.

Hell, a HAHO drop woulda allowed you to all hit the LZ withing a
coupla meters of each other, all without alerting the ground defenses
by flying near the 'zone. Dumb.]<<<<<
-- Snake (09:34:22 / 03-12-57)