Posted on Jul 18, 2016
Foreign paratrooper killed during jump over Fort Bragg
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A foreign paratrooper died Thursday during an 82nd Airborne Division jump into Sicily Drop Zone at Fort Bragg, N.C., an Army spokesman confirmed.
The parachuting death is under investigation, said 82nd spokesman Lt. Col. Joe Buccino. He declined to release the name of the soldier or his nationality. Buccino said that 336 jumpers had scheduled to jump during the exercise; 108 jumped before the fatality halted the operation.
The incident has not triggered a training stand-down. A few days later, on Sunday morning, more than 750 paratroopers form the 82nd's 1st Brigade Combat Team jumped into Fort Polk, Louisiana, for a simulated Non-Combatant Evacuation Operation. The 1st BCT, since December, has served as the land component for the nation's Global Response Force, a unit designed to quickly deploy anywhere in the world to assist in any crisis where military is needed.
The parachuting death is under investigation, said 82nd spokesman Lt. Col. Joe Buccino. He declined to release the name of the soldier or his nationality. Buccino said that 336 jumpers had scheduled to jump during the exercise; 108 jumped before the fatality halted the operation.
The incident has not triggered a training stand-down. A few days later, on Sunday morning, more than 750 paratroopers form the 82nd's 1st Brigade Combat Team jumped into Fort Polk, Louisiana, for a simulated Non-Combatant Evacuation Operation. The 1st BCT, since December, has served as the land component for the nation's Global Response Force, a unit designed to quickly deploy anywhere in the world to assist in any crisis where military is needed.
Foreign paratrooper killed during jump over Fort Bragg
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Sad news SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL. Being killed in a military parachute jump generally allows you to know what is happening before you hit the ground. Hopefully he made peace with God before he died.
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Sounds like a towed jumper incident. Sorry to hear about this.
May my fellow Paratrooper Rest In Peace. AATW!
May my fellow Paratrooper Rest In Peace. AATW!
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I have jumped the T10D, MC1 and the MC6 with various loads and conditions... With the proper instruction and following the three cardinal rules of the air, all should be G2G... things that go up must come down!
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SFC Marcus Belt
LTC (Join to see) - FACT! My unit jumps MC-6s...the issues with the T-11 have been related to JMPI issues, mostly...the C-shaped pin shifting while the jumper is seated caused a small change in the process of boarding the aircraft, for example.
And of course the female SGT that died had a misrouted static line that caused a partial decapitation on exiting the aircraft...that was messy, I hear. Not sure what caused the complete failure of the main lift web in '13 at JRTC, but that trooper survived with severe injuries. In '14 we had another trooper survive "cigarette" rolled main AND reserve. Whoa!
Matter of fact, I hate the T-11!
And of course the female SGT that died had a misrouted static line that caused a partial decapitation on exiting the aircraft...that was messy, I hear. Not sure what caused the complete failure of the main lift web in '13 at JRTC, but that trooper survived with severe injuries. In '14 we had another trooper survive "cigarette" rolled main AND reserve. Whoa!
Matter of fact, I hate the T-11!
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SFC Marcus Whoa! It's serious business... I would not feel comfortable with the T11.
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SFC Marcus Belt
SFC Shane Walthers - Right. I have no doubt that the number of fatalities that occurred when the T-10 was fielded were significant, and I have no doubt that the "kinks" in the '11 will be sorted, and that it will be an improvement over the T-10. I also accept that there is no valid way to circumvent this stage in the developmental process.
While I was probably guilty of hyperbole in my original post, the fact remains, the T-11, in one way or another, either because of its own intrinsic faults or its intrinsic "newness", has killed what feels like a lot of paratroopers over the last five years.
While I was probably guilty of hyperbole in my original post, the fact remains, the T-11, in one way or another, either because of its own intrinsic faults or its intrinsic "newness", has killed what feels like a lot of paratroopers over the last five years.
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