Poll: Military Service

[Marc]

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!!!