Thursday, December 14, 2006

Skydiving


I skydived for 10 years making over 450 sport parachute jumps between 1975 and 1982. Being in the military allowed me to jump out of helicopters such as the CH-53, CH-46, CH-47, and UH-1. I was on the Quantico Parachute Team in Quantico, VA, the Commodores Parachute Team in Pensacola, FL and the Interservice Parachute team at El Toro, CA.
In December of 1979 as a member of the Commodores Parachute Team, we invited the Navy Leap Frogs West, East, and Quantico Parachute Teams to participate in a record military freefall at the Blue Angles Airshow in Pensacola, FL. We used the Blue Angels C-130 "Fat Albert" as a jump aircraft and made all record attempts from 15,000 feet. The team successfully put together a 28 Man freefall formation during the Sunday Blue Angels Airshow in front of 60,000+ people in attendance. This was a military world record at the time. I hold a USPA D-7315 expert parachute license.

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