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Yea, after I really got into photography I went to the Marine base on the other side of the island with a Sargent buddy of mine. This would have been around 1969 or 1970. It was the Marine base at Kanoi Bay Hawaii. We hung out at the airborne unit where they would go up to 2,500 feet in a helicopter to parachute out and practice their landings. They had a 55 gallon drum full of the old pull tabs from beer cans. I watched from the ground as batch of men jumped out. Then they strapped me in a chute because anyone going up had to have a chute. I photographed them jumping out and the jump master asked If I was going out. I said hell no. I had not had even 5 minutes of training and I watched one of the marines land in a tree, one landed in the water, one had to climb his ropes to avoid a power line and another one landed on the runway. These guys had all jumped many times before. Only one man landed close to the "peas."
It was fun to lean out of a chopper looking down while holding on to a strap with a death grip.
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Glen
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1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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