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The older I get, the more I dislike heights.
Terra firma is the place my feet like best.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-fingers.html
Terra firma is the place my feet like best.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-fingers.html
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More idiots. I could post loads of vids but you can find them yourself if you want to have nightmares. I don't watch much of that stuff. I get queasy if I watch someone else standing near the edge of a cliff. I've always adhered to the mantra(mine), if you don't go up there, you can't fall from there.If I should die before I wake...great,a little more sleep. -
there are vids out there on Utube about folks that work on towers, including some of folks replacing the antenna on high rise buildings,
and also remember the pics of steel workers building high rises back pre WW2,,,
watched a guy work on a powerline last summer,
he was on a seat, hung from a small helicopter, with a couple buckets,
one bucket apparently had whatever he needed to replace something on the towers, and the other he put whatever he replaced in,
basically the helicopter zoomed in, dropped down so he could work (hovered) and then took him straight up and off to the next tower,,
looked like fun,,Comment
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You could hang from the moon if you are properly straped in. The number one country for selfie deaths is India, probably because they are very poor and would do nearly any goofy thing for ten dollars. Or because they are very poor and their life sucks anyway.If I should die before I wake...great,a little more sleep.Comment
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Playing soon at a country near you.If I should die before I wake...great,a little more sleep.Comment
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Our son told us about being extracted along with three others on a rope by a Black Hawk, said it was not fun.
SamComment
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I know a man who was dragged through a tree during an extraction at night -- he was the only survivor of three men.Comment
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Years ago, in Panama, when Richardson was in command, there were some visiting South American generals. Everyone was tasked to come up with some kind of demonstration for the visitors. Bo Gritz (if you know who he was) was commanding Special Forces. He decided on a low level extraction for his part of the show. The Air Force, however, knows Bo and wouldn't provide an airplane. So he used a helicopter.
The copter was to snatch 3 men off the ground. They would have smoke spurs on their boots with red, white and violet smoke grenades (closest he could get to red, white and blue) and they would trail a large American flag behind them. The plan was for the helicopter to make a slow 180 degree turn after the snatch and fly slowly past the stands, within feet of the visiting generals, with the three heroes linking arms and trailing red, white and violet smoke -- and the flag of course.
There is a gymnasium at the end of the pickup field, and they barely cleared the roof of the gym. There are sheet metal ventilators on the roof, and they didn't clear those. Helmets, combat boots and smoke grenades went in all directions.
The pilot didn't know they had hit the ventilators, and completed the maneuver -- with Bo and his comrades hanging unconscious and bleeding in the harness passing within feet of the stunned Geneerals.
The South Americans were impressed!Comment
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Didn't Col. Gritz "retire" back to Sandy Valley, Nevada some time ago?
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Yea, I remember that and the "discussion" that he had with Couric on TV, quite entertaining. I asked our son since he made Ranger why didn't he want to wear the beret and his answer was simple. He wanted to get in, get done and get out...easy enough to fathom. By the way, I have "heard" that the Army is reinventing the wheel and putting out bids on a 9mm "modern" sub gun for CQB. Apparently the M4 is too big, why not the Uzi or MP5? I like shooting the Uzi for printability and ease of magazine use, as well as being compact.
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I always had a "fear" of heights. Sometimes while climbing things I would freeze till I figured out the best and most surefooted way to come back down.
When I hired on with the refinery I had big concerns about having to climb and could I make the cut. When released into the grand wide open of 200' high columns, drums, reactors and overhead pipe ways I found that because the steel ladders were bolted and welded in place with cages around them the heights were not the issue. It was the matter of how secure your footing was and I never had any problems in this regard again.
My newly acquired son-in-laws father fell off of a roof and died 3 days later in a hospital as a result of the injuries. I never got to know him.
As far as this guy in the article goes---he just has a death wish.Comment
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When I first started to learn to repel I was given one bit of advice...don't look down only up! Repelling is easy, just look up!
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