I was once told that no one intelligent ever jumps out of a perfectly good airplane. Then my sergeant handed me a parachute and told me I was a idiot for joining the Air Force. Two weeks later they told us we would go up but we wouldn't have to jump. Though if we wanted to we could. Then we hit the sky and they damn loadmaster opened up the back of the C-130 and pulled up and we all fell out like so much garbage.
They were right though, we didn't have to jump. And I learned a important lesson. My sergeant lies a lot.
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