At airborne school I asked my instructor how long I had to activate my reserve if I had a malfunction with my main. He smiled and said, "Airborne, you got the rest of your life to activate that reserve!" I always liked that answer; still makes me smile 31 years later...

@sdhubbard

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely made me laugh.

@SteelheadTed

2 жыл бұрын

That’s the kind of story that can be used to demonstrate a point in a lot of life scenarios. Thanks for sharing!

@TheFleahost

2 жыл бұрын

And if it didn’t deploy we were to execute a dynamic parachute landing fall and then sound off with a loud and thunderous, “Airborne’”.

@triandfit1

2 жыл бұрын

Love it!

@Michael-cf9cj

Жыл бұрын

@@TheFleahost Considering the staggering self-confidence of airborne soldiers, should that landing be in a classic superhero pose?

1944: "I am sure you gonna love it" 2021: "GET OFF FROM MY PLANE!"

We had just completed Jump School and gotten our wings shortly before we headed home for Christmas leave. A guy on the plane, no one we recognized, was bragging about being Airborne. In true Airborne fashion, he was severely inebriated. The icing on the cake was when he vomited as the plane began to back away from the gate.

The thing is, at least one man did refuse to jump, but later asked if he could before the plane turned back to base.

@franciscogaray2530

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah. It was Ramirez. I think he is on the show

@stevekaczynski3793

5 ай бұрын

On D-Day there were something like 20 men who refused to jump and some men returned to England who were paras and not aircrew.

@PumpkinHoard

4 ай бұрын

@@stevekaczynski3793 I mean, there's always gonna be some. Thousands of men dropped, knowing they were now going into combat against an armed and trained force that was going to be trying to kill them. Most of them, going into combat for the first time. It's inevitable that some would refuse to jump. Jumping out of a plane is terrifying in the first place, add in flak explosions and Germans on the ground trying to kill you..... I don't think anyone truly knows how they would behave until put in that situation. Maybe I'd jump. Maybe I'd be terrified and clinging on the plane refusing to jump.

My first jump, my suspension lines got twisted and I hit the ground like a meteor. Somehow my beginners luck and rubber airborne knees kept me from breaking anything.

@ffandrewd2986

3 жыл бұрын

Lucky son of a bitch.

@armandogonzales9304

2 жыл бұрын

You mean "Risers"

@madlarkin8

2 жыл бұрын

@@armandogonzales9304 no. I dont. It was an improperly packed chute and one of my sets of suspension lines knotted.

@kieranhurst8543

2 жыл бұрын

Source: trust me bro

All you need is to remember what you were thought, and I guarantee, gravity will take care of the rest. The best line in this episode.

@Firan25

4 жыл бұрын

"Taught" Not Thought and for reference, when quoting something add " " to it. :)

@johnappleseed9290

2 жыл бұрын

Firan. Did you get picked on in school? :)

@WiggleJimmy

Жыл бұрын

@@johnappleseed9290 You reply to a 3 year old comment to drop that line. I have a feeling like you were the one that got picked on at school :)

@johnappleseed9290

Жыл бұрын

@@WiggleJimmy you make absolute no sense buddy, so your logic is that my comment delineates what happens in school, ha, yeah alright, whatever helps you sleep at night ;)

@SirMcLoin

Жыл бұрын

​@@johnappleseed9290 shut yo ass up

Sobel was lucky to get transferred. Lt Meehan the replacement commander was shot down with the entire stick over Normandy by AAA. Would have been Sobel in the same plane

@mimir4965

4 жыл бұрын

he wasn't lucky... he tried to kill himself and failed, becoming blind and dying of malnutrition in VA home years later...

@damnhandy

Жыл бұрын

@@mimir4965 The internet used to have The Practical Guide to Suicide, and one of the first chapters dealt with Don't F**k It Up Like So Many Do. Something like 45% of suicide attempts fail to kill; with gruesome results. Who wants to live the rest of their life as a carrot?

C-47 is a beautiful aircraft.

@Seriona1

5 жыл бұрын

AC-47 is even prettier.

@JohnHonovi

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed

@Caroni100

3 жыл бұрын

And eighty years later, some C-47 planes (renamed DC-3 for civilian use) still fly. In Finland, a C-47 will fly this 2021 sumner again after ten years in land, in order to make holidays flights. CURAHEEE!!! 💪🏾💪🏻💪🏿🛩 Regards from Venezuela 🇻🇪

@christophercook7379

3 жыл бұрын

DC-3 are still incredible aircrafts. They look like fighters compared to all other transport aircrafts. “The only replacement for a DC-3 is another DC-3”

@daveslark

2 жыл бұрын

Lucky for me I ve flown c47s before before p51, spitfires, Messerschmitt bf 109

My first jump I was so busy trying to remember what they told me that I was on the ground before I knew what happened.

@outdoormansadventures2858

8 жыл бұрын

R.I.P my friend huehue

@TheWarrior7769

8 жыл бұрын

lol so everything else blacked out

@decodeddiesel

7 жыл бұрын

They made us do a forced hydration before the jump. I had to piss so bad all I could think about was getting it over with so I could relieve myself. Funny enough as soon as I was out of the bird and it just hit me what i had done the urge went away. About 15 minutes after I was on the ground I remembered my bladder was about to burst.

@HawkeyeNation19

7 жыл бұрын

I pooped on my first jump. And then I got smoked.

@EtzEchad

5 жыл бұрын

Did you remember what they told you?

I still vividly recall my parachute training at Fort Bragg in 1985. Remarkably the techniques haven’t changed much, just the uniforms although I like the football helmets. The actual jump was pure heaven. I still recall the pure joy of floating to the earth (after the pure terror beforehand wondering if the chute would open!). I was never scared of the actual jumps except the night ones which were a bit surreal.

@ericbainter826

Жыл бұрын

I went thru The Airborne School at Benning in June 1981. I was thinking the same thing, the jump procedure seemed pretty much the same. And I had no fear of my jumps, I could not wait to get out of that airplane after three weeks of training. One thing that I remember is being very surprised at how hard I hit the ground. I always did a PLF as trained and never got hurt but it was quite a shock to me how quick and hard the landing was. In BOB and other shows they always look like they are drifting in and poof! A nice soft landing. Mine was WHAM! Welcome back to Earth Airborne! Have not jumped since (I was an Air Force ROTC cadet during training) but I always treasured my jump wings.

@srujan00

3 күн бұрын

Fort Bragg - before it was Fort Cancel Culture

Love how soft those landings are! One error here is that the parachutes deploy lines first like modern T10s or the Irvin X-Type used by the Brits in WW2. The parachutes used here would have been T5s that opened canopy first and deployed in the prop blast, so they would have been much more violent openings.

It doesn't show this in the show but Malarky's chute actually broke on one of his jumps and he got wrapped up in his reserve and almost died

@EtzEchad

5 жыл бұрын

The amazing thing was that jumping out of airplanes was not nearly the most dangerous thing these heroes did.

@RhonJohns

5 жыл бұрын

That wasn't in the book either

@westrim

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds like a bunch of Malarky.

@williaml5221

3 жыл бұрын

Late reply but I believe that is in the beginning of Compton's book

@serlawrenceharlem3838

3 жыл бұрын

How did you learn that?

I was in the Army 20 years and never went Airborne, however I have nothing but respect for folks that did.

People don't understand how little control you actually have with those parachutes. Anytime the winds were high-speed I got nervous.

I love the little laugh when he says “Hopefully under deployed (chuckles) canopies”.... 00:57

I always liked that bomber jacket that the instructor is wearing

@Rusty_Gold85

2 жыл бұрын

Funny how Pilot sunglasses , T shirts and Bomber jackets became cool items to wear during the 60's from baby boomers

The training episodes were my favorite.

@NYG5

3 жыл бұрын

@@cornusia ok

As a dutchy i love the first episode its fascinating how these people were prepared and trained and what it really took to be one of these strong dudes

@groningen585

Жыл бұрын

What does being Dutch have to do with anything 😂

@JoelDiez

Жыл бұрын

Lost the world cup, have you 🤏

@el_gabron

8 ай бұрын

@@JoelDiez how'd your country finish

I made two static line jumps at 2500ft in 1969, when I was sixteen, from Parachutes Inc. in Lakewood New Jersey. It was two or three miles from Fort Dix. I bounced a check to purchase the second jump. Hop and Pops they called them. By far the most fun I ever had.

@joemckim1183

Жыл бұрын

I did a static line jump around 1998 with a group of people from work on our day off but we were only jumping from about 1500 feet. Just enough to be able to mark it off of my bucket list.

Whoa whoa whoa, is no one going to mention sobel hesitated?

@1004jinji

5 жыл бұрын

right. first time watching i was quite confused with sobel because of how hesitated he was, it's so unlikely to see a captain like that

@Coldfront15

4 жыл бұрын

He hesitated because he was unsure about the distance. That’s why according to the book.

@Lupinthe3rd.

4 жыл бұрын

He hesitated at first but jumped that is different from a refusal I expect on the first jump that to be common

@davez5201

4 жыл бұрын

It's a tv show dude. The director is just playing it up because he's the character that everyone is supposed to hate.

@Spacegoat92

4 жыл бұрын

He hesitated because he was too busy thinking about who's weekend pass he was going to revoke...

Before jumping out of planes was cool..

@Pilot231

6 жыл бұрын

back then they thought: "why jump out of a perfectly good aircraft?"

@youtubecommenter37

5 жыл бұрын

Back when an additional $150 a month was a helluva lot of money

Admittedly, I’m actually scared of heights....but I have always wanted to do this sorta thing, just once!

@creslyadambardon6580

4 жыл бұрын

Me too, but just once.

@1978sjt

2 жыл бұрын

I'd prefer to do it once, but have the opportunity to do it again :p

@moteroargentino7944

2 жыл бұрын

Well, you're guaranteed to do it al least once for sure 😆

@damnhandy

Жыл бұрын

There is nothing stopping you. I did it because I was afraid of heights too when I was 16. Not like paratroopers do it at 800 feet, but at 2500 feet. It cost me $250 for four hours training and one jump. I paid $100 for a second jump. That was in 1969. Do it. You don't live forever.

I like those football helmets they got. Brings back memories. That said, it is amazing how loud military aircraft is. Then you get on civilian aircraft, they are quiet, comfortable and you a drink lol

the wind sounds certainly remind me of my first jumps

Beyond proud that my father served in the 82nd Airborne. He had one tattoo:”US Army Paratrooper.”

Don't forget that those are trainingjumps.

Watching this brings back memories.

What’s crazy about the airborne troops is that jumping out of an airplane is the easy part of the mission.

@grimmshredsanguinus2915

Жыл бұрын

only to die by a stray bullet or 20mm AA round indeed

This series never gets old. It seems like yesterday when it was first aired. Released in 1999, I think.

@BUZZEY15

9 жыл бұрын

2001

@akilla214u2c

9 жыл бұрын

BUZZEY15 I'm watching it right now. And learned of more truths that are hidden within the story line. African and Belgian nurses were true depictions of the story line. And very few points have been made to the Battalion Surgeon Dr. Jack Prior. Coming from 1994 Army Trained Combat Medic and knowing how a Battalion Aid Station is essential to troop survival. It has always concerned me that very little was mentioned of the Battalion Surgical Staff. And what Doc Roe went through to get the troops medically fit to fight and survive. This film has more to offer than just the film, we just need to pay more attention to the details.

@joemckim1183

5 жыл бұрын

@@BUZZEY15 It debuted the first 2 episodes on September 9, 2001, 2 days before 9/11.

@Coldfront15

4 жыл бұрын

Joe McKim A day that will forever live, in infamy.

2:26 Universal static line snaphook improperly attached to the anchor line cable. #jumpmaster

@kylev.1163

7 жыл бұрын

yup I caught that too.

@decodeddiesel

7 жыл бұрын

Nice catch. Spot-on.

@roguishpaladin

6 жыл бұрын

I don't know if that's just a mistake or if it's to reflect that these are trainees and one of them probably got it wrong.

@Auzzie015

6 жыл бұрын

You better believe your weekend pass is being revoked.

@bwakel310

5 жыл бұрын

What am I looking for?

“Perconte, have you been blousing your trousers like a paratrooper ?”

Balls of steel. Jumping out of an airplane was a new concept. No idea if they would even live through it

@ottokarl5427

2 жыл бұрын

It was only new for the US. At this point in time Germany already did so many para-troopings operation it was already ruled out because of the tremendous countermeasures the Allies applied against it. So thinking about it...you are right, this needs balls of steel. Because they were about to jump against the creator of this concept who also learned first hand how effective countermeasures have to be

There was a video, some years back, of jumpers doing a free fall drop from the bomb bay of a B-17.

All you need is to remember what you were taught, and I guarantee, gravity will take care of the rest. Couldn't be more true than that.

@Bumpki

3 жыл бұрын

You really love that line to comment on it twice

@damnhandy

Жыл бұрын

Give him a break. It is an experience, every second of which one never forgets. It's 63 years for me, and I remember every second of it if I think back.

1:34 When the car in front of you takes forever to make their turn

I'm amazed they survived.

Man those old football helmets were cool looking, wish we still used them.

@sawyernorthrop4078

5 жыл бұрын

Concussions.jpg

What is that cloth trailing back from the exit door? It looks like a parachute, but olive drab in colour as opposed to off-white. (Later note) It seems to be left behind every time someone jumps. There are a number of them after a few jumps.

Damn, it seems a lot harder back then. Nowadays we jump 250 higher and our exit process is a lot faster.

@roguishpaladin

6 жыл бұрын

Well, it was still a novel way of fighting.

Seems kinda fun to me!

He was just a rookie trooper and he surely shook with fright.......

@MechaWolf0

3 жыл бұрын

He checked off his equipment and made sure his pack was tight...

@gabeclancy3417

2 жыл бұрын

He had to sit and listen too those awful engines roar.

@shura0107

Жыл бұрын

You ain't gonna jump no more.

I remember during my Infantry training at Fort Benning, i believe it were training with anti tank weapon systems and i just recall a giant buzz from a bird whizz over us and about 50 miles away were able to see the Airborne make their jump and by golly everyone in the company there were just charged up for the rest of the day.

One of the few things i miss about the Army

I don't remember if they show this but, back then, they also had to wrap and pack their own parachutes....

FEET AND KNEES TOGETHER !

would their chute might clip on that tail section?

I'll never forget my first jump from a plane at Ft Benning, GA!!! What a rush!

if you do airborne re-enacting you can do this with your ww2 uniform

@xxxxxx-l4h

9 жыл бұрын

or you can join the military and go through airborne training with an issued uniform ;)

Does anyone know the name of the actor who plays the instructor?

@nczioox1116

4 жыл бұрын

If you have Amazon Prime and pause this scene I believe it'll tell you

I would love to parachute but only when the plane I’m on is flying vertically towards the ground

One thing they should've included on the training was AA fire that was likely to happen.

@Seriona1

5 жыл бұрын

Paratropers are traditional used in combat zones were it was safe to land. Usually away from the main action hence why they are not trained that way.

@Coldfront15

4 жыл бұрын

falcon3268 Operation Husky and Neptune were both outliers for what proper usage of airborne drops should look like. They were both being dropped too close to their objectives to have a safe route that would ignore flak entirely, or negate its usage. Granted they had to. An example of a good paradrop is Operation Torch, 504th PIR 82nd Airborne.

I wonder how often the parachutes failed in those days. 1000 feet is pretty low to realize you have a problem and deploy your reserve.

@johnnysunday402

5 жыл бұрын

In Buck Compton's memior he states that parachute failure was less a fraction of a percentage, but offers no further numbers. Stephen Ambrose in the WW2 Encyclopedia states that parachute deployment failure in this era was less than 1 in 7000 deployments, but offers no statistics to support that figure. Not sure if those numbers indicate a fatality as a result of the parachute not deploying, or some other failure such as rigging, straps, ect.

@SurfingBullDog

4 жыл бұрын

I don’t know about then but nowadays the normal jump altitude is 1250ft and once you jump you’re supposed to count to four, and if by the count of four you look up and your chute ain’t deployed, you yank the reserve.

@juanmonge8

3 жыл бұрын

When I first visited England in 1993. There was some old movie on television. They were showing RAF guys how to jump out of airplanes. They were told that if the parachute didn’t open it was called a “ Roman Candle”. Everyone got scared and refused to jump. So the instructor said : I’ll show you guys- and - Roman candle!

@EtzEchad

3 жыл бұрын

@@juanmonge8 Ouch. My guess is that the RAF guys STILL refused to jump... I asked General Yeager (on Twitter) if he ever jumped out of an airplane that wasn’t crashing. He said something like “For what reason?” He famously refused to do the NF-104 crash sequence on the “Right Stuff” movie, which had a real parachute jump. (Actually it was many jumps to get the shot they needed.) He said the stunt man they got instead of him “augured in.”

Who checks the last guy's equipment?

@blakeallen8224

4 жыл бұрын

Command by JM is, Last jumper turn towards the skin of the aircraft, 2nd to last jumper, check last jumpers static line

quick question are those football helmets from west point?

@88mike42

6 жыл бұрын

@The Joe2005...My question is: did those helmets even exist in 1943/44? They look like Riddell suspension helmets that began to appear in the 1950's.

@roguishpaladin

6 жыл бұрын

88mike This forum thread has a picture of similar helmets in use in 1944: www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/179908-question-about-paratrooper-riddel-helmet/

@88mike42

6 жыл бұрын

rougishpaladin...Thanks for the info. In Fact the M1941 helmet liner and the Riddell suspension helmets have the same interiors.

i want to do it

None of my landings were that soft...just sayin

@falcon3268

6 жыл бұрын

they really don't show the fact if the troops didn't do the proper landing I don't know what its call, they can pretty much break their legs

@deadmeme4256

6 жыл бұрын

+falcon3268 they can break more than their legs

@recceeboy1237

5 жыл бұрын

@@falcon3268 plf

@youtubecommenter37

5 жыл бұрын

Yup. Those were the kind of landings I could only dream of

@kazkikongokiller6447

4 жыл бұрын

Ww2 era infantry was much lighter in weight and didn't carry nearly as much equipment as today

my first jump i i all most threw up because i was afraid of hights lol

@kokotaughs

5 жыл бұрын

Lmao and you chose to become paratroop?

@rosaryinkeanushand4827

5 жыл бұрын

And then what happened? Im afraid of heights but I wanna sky dive to kill it..

@nczioox1116

4 жыл бұрын

@@kokotaughs That deserves respect. Doing something even though it scares you

@kettch777

4 жыл бұрын

@@nczioox1116 Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to overcome it.

I remember my first jump. I was scared shit as hell

The sound of the plane, something about it

The one where Ross hits the silk.

Why wasn't sobel one?

@Soul_Alpha

3 жыл бұрын

He did jump on this video

Watching this while at airborne school lmao

First jump I landed like an angel. The second jump I thought I broke my back! The night jump was scary. The other two were not memorable.

@iljadenisovs4659

2 жыл бұрын

How are your back now?

The air over the wings was doing strange things.

Isn't the Officer or highest ranking man supposed to jump first out of the airplane?

@falcon3268

8 жыл бұрын

+sausy mayo He is but we guess Sobel never got the memo

@roguevector1268

8 жыл бұрын

+sausy mayo And winters was indeed first out.

@falcon3268

8 жыл бұрын

+sausy mayo but we also have to remember that this was training

@Extremedude9000

7 жыл бұрын

This was also the very beginning of the paratroopers, so I'm not sure if that procedure was there yet.

@SantomPh

5 жыл бұрын

At the time both Winters and Sobel were Lieutenants although Winters was a Second Lieutenant and Sobel was a First Lieutenant

I’d bet money that the NCO giving the block of instruction is or was an actual NCO.

1:21 here they are jumping for real, does anyone know who did this? I have searched for answers but haven't found any. Is it the real army or are there veterans that does this for fun and they just filmed them?

@cullenatwood5149

3 ай бұрын

Are you sure that was real? I think the plane is real and the sound its making is but it looked like it was a set with maybe a green screen showing the land.

Glory; Glory, what a hell of a way to die!

Who is checking last man's equipment ?

@damnhandy

Жыл бұрын

The jump master.

Airborne VR game would be cool

Ross does not seem to enjoy this

@duff007

2 жыл бұрын

The One Where Ross Doesn’t Want to Jump Out of a Plane.

This explained it all 'bout Cap. Sobel? He'd force you out of an airplane but you can tell he ain't jumping!???

Pivot !!!!

Ohh ini kisah perjuangan kompi E ya

I wish my landings were that soft😢😢

All you do is stick you leg out the door. Wind will make sure you leave the Plane...

Why would you jump from a perfectly fine airplane? Madness...

Blood wings

how do you train to parishout, welp you parishout!

Almost a jump refusal lmfao

Done it yet xD

Man i really would have struggled with this. I ain't good with heights. Or the feeling of falling. If it were night time it might have been easier.

Those were some terrible PLF's Lieutenants!!! lol

There's no way those airborne stay all quite on their first jump like that. Airborne always scream the whole landing field apart on their first jump, from the moment their Parachute unfolds correctly all the way to the ground. No instructor has the right to forbid that.

2:09 really I thought u would just get pushed

@MRB2580

7 жыл бұрын

Probably meant during training, defo would get pushed in combat.

@demam41

6 жыл бұрын

Ox van cool yea because a white parachute today would be considered racist lol

Why do we follow the green smoke? Because its proper procedure

@Coldfront15

4 жыл бұрын

Alec Cross ah, haha. haha... no,

They should've made the parachute black

@lucash5025

6 жыл бұрын

lol nah kid

@falcon3268

6 жыл бұрын

Well if you have to think of it they were going to be jumping a night probably so unless you are use to the dark or it was day time you wouldn't be able to see them

@SaiMoNx8

6 жыл бұрын

They could still spot you in the dark. For one thing, the color white reflects light the most out of all other colors, while dark colors tend to absorb it more. The other thing is that Germans had powerful spotlights intended to illuminate the sky, which helped them spot enemy aircraft and paratroopers for their anti-aircaft guns.

@tehhotline4225

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah I'd love jumping with a massive black contrasting Parachute in the day time Very convenient for whoever Is looking for you

Defossion - Bullsh**. Nobody talks like that in Jump School 🙄

i thought they were made in china lol