(06-07-2014 10:58 AM)RangerRocket Wrote: [ -> ]83
Out of town this weekend.
PH for Ranger......
When someone reaches 83, they may celebrate a 2nd Bar Mitzvah!!!!!!
How soon for you Abe???????
82
82nd Airborne Division
I served in the 82nd Airborne from 1978-1981, earning my Master Parachutist wings during that tour of duty. I subsequently ended up serving on jump status for 14 of my 20 years in the Army.
http://www.bragg.army.mil/82nd/Pages/default.aspx
Quote:The 82nd Airborne Division is an active airborne infantry division of the United States Army specializing in parachute landing operations. Based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the 82nd Airborne Division is the primary fighting arm of the XVIII Airborne Corps. The 82nd Division was constituted in the National Army on 5 August 1917, and was organized on 25 August 1917, at Camp Gordon, Georgia. Since its initial members came from all 48 states, the unit acquired the nickname "All-American", which is the basis for its famed “AA” shoulder patch.
"Blood Upon the Risers" is an American paratrooper song from World War II. It is associated with all airborne units, including the 82nd Airborne Division, the 101st Airborne Division, the 173rd Airborne Brigade and 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne) of the 25th Infantry Division, and the 120th CTS (United States). This song has been featured on the television miniseries Band of Brothers and the video game Brothers in Arms, and also mentioned in Donald Burgett's book, Currahee!: A Screaming Eagle at Normandy. Sung to the tune of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", the song tells of the final fatal jump of a rookie paratrooper whose parachute fails to deploy. This results in him falling to his death. At Jump School the instructor ("Blackhat") told us: "if your reserve chute fails bring it back and we'll give you another one..."
He was just a rookie trooper and he surely shook with fright,
He checked all his equipment and made sure his pack was tight;
He had to sit and listen to those awful engines roar,
"You ain't gonna jump no more!"
(CHORUS)
Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die,
Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die,
Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die,
He ain't gonna jump no more!
"Is everybody happy?" cried the Sergeant looking up,
Our Hero feebly answered "Yes," and then they stood him up;
He jumped into the icy blast, his static line unhooked,
He ain't gonna jump no more.
(CHORUS)
He counted long, he counted loud, he waited for the shock,
He felt the wind, he felt the cold, he felt the awful drop,
The silk from his reserves spilled out, and wrapped around his legs,
He ain't gonna jump no more.
(CHORUS)
The risers swung around his neck, connectors cracked his dome,
Suspension lines were tied in knots around his skinny bones;
The canopy became his shroud; he hurtled to the ground.
He ain't gonna jump no more.
(CHORUS)
The days he'd lived and loved and laughed kept running through his mind,
He thought about the girl back home, the one he'd left behind;
He thought about the medic corps, and wondered what they'd find,
He ain't gonna jump no more.
(CHORUS)
The ambulance was on the spot, the jeeps were running wild,
The medics jumped and screamed with glee, they rolled their sleeves and smiled,
For it had been a week or more since last a 'Chute had failed,
He ain't gonna jump no more.
(CHORUS)
He hit the ground, the sound was "SPLAT", his blood went spurting high;
His comrades, they were heard to say "A hell of a way to die!"
He lay there, rolling 'round in the welter of his gore,
He ain't gonna jump no more.
(CHORUS)
(06-08-2014 08:27 AM)RangerRocket Wrote: [ -> ]82
Pinch Hitting again:
82
The number of regular season games for both the NBA and NHL.
(06-11-2014 06:07 AM)RangerRocket Wrote: [ -> ]79
Seventy-Nine (Movie)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2625948/
Quote:In an abandoned asylum, a series of secret experiments on the nature of brainwashing is being conducted - a project codenamed 'Limes' (a term describing a borderline between the civilized and barbaric world).
isn't that line just south of the Haskins exit?????
