Well they are not brass anyway....:p:

I am going to see if I can find a pic to scan of me the first time I did it at Air Assault School at Ft. Campbell. The wife and kids came out to watch and snapped a few pics.

I thought maybe you might have a bit of personal experience there, Merc...

HA! Can't believe I found it.... This was the first time I ever rappelled out of a aircraft. Fortunately it was the first of many, great fun.

Ft. Campbell, KY, Air Assault School, 1991

Zero Day where they separated the wheat from the chaff, if you couldn't climb a rope or refused to go up the highest obstacles without assistance you were dropped. We lost half at the obstacle course, another half at the first run, and the rest throughout the class. 10 days. Started with about 250, finished with about 75. I am the bald dude on the right ladder in the first pic and at the top of the other ladder on the far right. The last obstacle the rungs of the ladder got further apart the higher you went.

"You climb obstacles like old people fuck!!!"

I've always imagined that James Bond got all the head he wanted. I never imagined he carried it around on his hip though.

My husband did spy rigging in the Marines.

SPIE;)

I don't get why we can see Merc's bawls just because he's rappelling out of a helicopter. Unless he is doing it naked. Is that some initiation bonding (-age) ritual you guys do?

spy rigging-- interesting. looks like the flying (m)anteater of the gods. slllluuuuuuuuuuurP!

"Is it my imagination or..."

That's why they say if your journey is 100 miles, count 90 as the halfway mark.

There was a record store in Portchester, NY called "Vinyl Solution"