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TEB

(13,689 posts) Sat May 18, 2019, 02:02 PM May 2019

I just met a woman jump master

Not being rude I never knew my time was 1984 Airborne school after infantry at Benning we never had female master blasters. I was at gym with our sons and this lady who is E-8 first sgt commented on my ball cap 82nd. I said yes we started talking here she was a master blaster ran was in charge of paratroopers on jump then she went to HALO SCHOOL. Which is amazing high altitudes low opening free fall glide across borders. I was just a static drop after jump school.

Think about it HALO school in Arizona IS free fall where you have to keep your attitude body correct not spin and leave aircraft 7 miles in sky with oxygen, to me that is hardcore to graduate HALO school I’m thinking what a stud hard ass so I made new friend. Gave the master blaster my phone number and said give me call. As she is on recruiting duty and come out to house and hang with us I’ll always hang with Airborne I love vets.

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I just met a woman jump master (Original Post) TEB May 2019 OP

I love it when kick-ass women make names for themselves in previously jealously-guarded Aristus May 2019 #1

I'm not arguing that DashOneBravo May 2019 #4

Love hearing these success stories MLAA May 2019 #2

Not too long ago GP6971 May 2019 #3

I got awesome naps TEB May 2019 #7

Good for her DashOneBravo May 2019 #5

Yup TEB May 2019 #6

Aristus

(68,373 posts)

1. I love it when kick-ass women make names for themselves in previously jealously-guarded

Reply to TEB (Original post)

Sat May 18, 2019, 03:20 PM

May 2019

male preserves like HALO jumping.

I was a tanker years and years ago, but the Army just commissioned its first female tank commander a few years back. Jesus, a lot of hypermacho dickheads lost their minds when that happened. Screeching POLITICAL CORRECTNESS RUN AMOK!!! rather than coming to the rather simple and obvious conclusion that she had met, or even exceeded all the requirements for the position.

The Army awarded the Ranger tab to its first female African-American member just a few days ago.

We're seeing some real progress out there...

DashOneBravo

(2,679 posts)

4. I'm not arguing that

Reply to Aristus (Reply #1)

Sat May 25, 2019, 10:38 PM

May 2019

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But Ranger School and MFF / HALO school are not the same.

Ranger School has been set up at Ft Benning since the 50’s for students to attend.

MFF / HALO isn’t like that. Every Special Forces battalion has MFF teams jockeying for slots at Yuma and they compete with Army and Navy SMU’s; USMC Raiders, Air Force CCT’s, PJs, and Ranger Regimental Recon

MLAA

(18,602 posts)

2. Love hearing these success stories

Reply to TEB (Original post)

Sat May 18, 2019, 07:12 PM

May 2019

And love that you welcomed her into your home. You are a good, good man, TEB.

GP6971

(32,997 posts)

3. Not too long ago

Reply to TEB (Original post)

Sat May 25, 2019, 08:43 PM

May 2019

I worked with a woman on a project for work and her hobby was sky diving...she had over 1,000 jumps mostly with a performance team.

I toyed with jump school between assignments, but figured it wouldn't do anything career wise being in logistics. I was TDY at Bragg when Grenada went down. It was fascinating watching the deployment on the Green Ramp. My team didn't get involved deploying the troops, but we assisted in arranging procurement and transportation of follow on supplies.