http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/11618Airborne school is basically a couple hours of training interspersed with two weeks of harassment and then five hours of proving that gravity still operates over eastern Alabama interspersed with forty hours of sitting around in heavy equipment.
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True words. Jump school pissed me off, bigtime. Why?
1. Waiting around and doing nothing
2. Black hats thought they were the baddest dudes EVER. For some reason they did not impress my AF Pararescue roommate who just came from SF Scuba School, who had experience with truly hard dudes.
3. PT was terrible and set you up for failure if your next school was more arduous (RIP).
4. More waiting around and doing nothing.
5. Pathetic softskill excuses for NCO students trying to turn the barracks into some sort of scene from
Full Metal Jacket. (Along with those 3 chevrons & the rocker, I'd like to gift you, SSG Kitchen P. Troll, with the "Golden L" for fattest loser NCO without a clue. Now, go back to your room and torture another academy cadet for having more brains and career opportunities than your pathetic self.)
6. More doing nothing.
7. More sh!tty PT geared so the women didn't fall out.
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I feel better now.
