Sorry, I‘m way off topic here.
Jungle,
Shot the **** with some old familiar faces when I was in Trenton last, they where graduating P.I. crse. Great guys, good to see the para side of your regt is sending some quality NCOs.
Recce41,
I feel for ya with the rust thing. I was in Europe in ‘94 for the NECIC comp. Thanks to the exchange officer we had with the Brits at the time, we got to tag along on the jump into Arnhem for the 50th anniversary of Op Market Garden. We jumped the rustiest, shaggiest lookin‘ chutes I had ever seen(Brit PX4s)! It looked like they had been used for nothing but salt water jumps, then dragged through sand before being re-packed! The flight sucked, the weather wasn‘t even close to marginal, and we where tail-end charlie of a zillion plane formation from England to the Netherlands. I‘ll tell you though, to a man, we where extremely grateful to be there, and any worries we had where assuaged by our feelings of gratitude.
These experiences with foreign armies just reinforce my faith in our eqpt, riggers, and para system.