It was JUL70, SGT Mark Halmrast, and I was attending the SF weapons course at Fort Bragg. Back then, Saturday was a duty half day. It was either a half day (to noon) of details, or almost always you could opt to make a Hollywood jump (demos) that might get you back to the barracks about 2 pm. Believe it or not, some guys would take the detail, but I always wanted to jump!
We got on a C-130 late in the morning at Pope AFB, it was already scorching hot and inside the plane was worse. The USAF loadmaster could already see some guys getting pale because he yelled out, “If you throw up on my airplane, you’ll have to clean it up!” (I know everyone has heard that before!)
Most of us were E-3-E4, but one student with us was an E-7, in charge of us, and a real horse’s behind. Sure enough, he threw up before we ever took off and there he was cleaning the floor of the a/c with two rigs on, and we were still on the ground! All my buddies and I were extremely pleased. It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving jerk! Never forgot this little life’s pleasure and I remember his name to this day.
CSM Chuck Stafford Maj Rob Drury SGT (Join to see) LTC Jeff Shearer

C130 tailgate @4000 ft into Babyseal DZ Antigua

I will start by saying I liked jumping much more after jumpmaster but I was not a big fan of any platform. Most likely the easiest was the CH-47, dating myself a bit maybe the CH-53 with a cargo box. They were easy and smooth. I jumped in Italy and got my first set of foreign wings. When I exited the AC I looked around and thought how cool is this, I'm getting foreign wings and looking at the Italian country side. Wow!