SSG Roger Ayscue759239<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>REQUEST FOR INFORMATION: VIETNAM VETERANS<br />Specifically, The LRRP/AIRBORNE and Phoenix Program.<br />I know an older vet that is saying some stuff that I as a Jump Master know is not possible. I want to give the old guy the benefit of the doubt but I am honestly speechless on this one. All Vets will tell a fish story on occasion but this is more than I can attribute to that. Here are some examples:<br />** Completed Jump School, Jungle School, and Sniper School in about a month and a week.<br />** Left Jump School with 4 jumps. His fifth jump was into North Vietnam, with a LEG rigged to jump TANDEM with him, hooked to each other with a tether.<br />** Shot his first bad guy while still on the Tarmac from his flight into country.<br />** Worked with a Special Ops unit out of Phu Bi, run by a CIA guy named Tooley. Occasionally says this unit was part of Phoenix.<br /><br />Like I said, I want to give him the benefit of the doubt, but Jumping your fifth jump as a HALO with a LEG tandem rigged to you....<br /><br />Sometimes, I feel that my brain is going to liquefy and run out of my noseAccelerated Training of individuals for Vietnam2015-06-19T23:31:03-04:00SSG Roger Ayscue759239<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>REQUEST FOR INFORMATION: VIETNAM VETERANS<br />Specifically, The LRRP/AIRBORNE and Phoenix Program.<br />I know an older vet that is saying some stuff that I as a Jump Master know is not possible. I want to give the old guy the benefit of the doubt but I am honestly speechless on this one. All Vets will tell a fish story on occasion but this is more than I can attribute to that. Here are some examples:<br />** Completed Jump School, Jungle School, and Sniper School in about a month and a week.<br />** Left Jump School with 4 jumps. His fifth jump was into North Vietnam, with a LEG rigged to jump TANDEM with him, hooked to each other with a tether.<br />** Shot his first bad guy while still on the Tarmac from his flight into country.<br />** Worked with a Special Ops unit out of Phu Bi, run by a CIA guy named Tooley. Occasionally says this unit was part of Phoenix.<br /><br />Like I said, I want to give him the benefit of the doubt, but Jumping your fifth jump as a HALO with a LEG tandem rigged to you....<br /><br />Sometimes, I feel that my brain is going to liquefy and run out of my noseAccelerated Training of individuals for Vietnam2015-06-19T23:31:03-04:002015-06-19T23:31:03-04:00SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S.759253<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Really?<br />Dang, and I thought I was going to pitch my Delta Mini-Sub story!Response by SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S. made Jun 19 at 2015 11:41 PM2015-06-19T23:41:55-04:002015-06-19T23:41:55-04:00Cpl Dennis F.759255<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Never been to a military jump school, but I believe I can with confidence, tell you that ALL of this is total bull shit!Response by Cpl Dennis F. made Jun 19 at 2015 11:43 PM2015-06-19T23:43:20-04:002015-06-19T23:43:20-04:00Capt Seid Waddell759301<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Have you checked here?<br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://sofrep.com/there-i-was/">http://sofrep.com/there-i-was/</a><br /><br />If it's not there, the story can be entered here:<br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://sofrep.com/share-your-no-kidding-there-i-was-story/">http://sofrep.com/share-your-no-kidding-there-i-was-story/</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default">
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Response by Capt Seid Waddell made Jun 20 at 2015 12:06 AM2015-06-20T00:06:49-04:002015-06-20T00:06:49-04:00CSM Michael J. Uhlig759506<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Its either a fish story or a case of being Pincchio......regardless, sounds like some embellishment going on without a doubt.Response by CSM Michael J. Uhlig made Jun 20 at 2015 6:29 AM2015-06-20T06:29:59-04:002015-06-20T06:29:59-04:00CPT Quentin von Éfáns-Taráfdar759774<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I spent some two years in Vietnam, all of it in I Corps, as an advisor to various units of the First Arvn Inf Div working chiefly around Phu Bai, then in a SF unit. There is no way he completed all of those schools in 5 weeks. If he jumped into North VN it would have been a HALO jump and you need a lot more than 5 jumps to qualify as HALO. Shooting VC on the airport tarmac? Since when did anyone ever land in a VC controlled airport? Never heard of any Spec Ops Unit in Phu Bai. Phu Bai was the airport for Hué.<br />This clown has probably never been to SE Asia let alone fought in VNResponse by CPT Quentin von Éfáns-Taráfdar made Jun 20 at 2015 12:39 PM2015-06-20T12:39:31-04:002015-06-20T12:39:31-04:002015-06-19T23:31:03-04:00