If the plane is real low then you are even easier to spot. If you want
stealth you jump from 30K+ and don't open your chute until real low. They
call it a HALO jump, high altitude, low opening.

Nobody did HALO in those years.

One night they took the 82nd out for a practice jump into a river, and
the lead pilot mistook a concrete highway for the water. The troopers
broke a lot of legs.

They asked psywar for a safety poster. I was the copywriter: DON'T
MAKE A DISABLING PLF. Ted did the artwork: a life-sized walking cast.
To make it look more convincing, we all signed it. Dunno if the
airborne ever published it.



all the best -- Dan Ford
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