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Old 10-09-2008, 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
And of course, when you're a paratrooper, you really want to know the weather, particularly what the wind will be like at the DZ."
I served as professional paratrooper in the BRIPAC ("Brigada Paracaista", the Spanish airborne brigade). And one of the most enervating things about one particular officer was the typical " Wind zero knots over the drop zone" prior to go on board the plane. More often It was not true. Probably he had a problem with the "knot" concept. These barbaric and non-metric measure units!!!
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