It's Large Package Week

Posted By Blackfive

It's the Annual Large Package (Drop) Week at Pope AFB and Ft. Bragg where the Air Force gets to drop, well, lots of large things...including paratroopers. For those of you who are ancient enough to remember what Gamma Goats were, I saw the Army get rid of a few by not providing adequate canopy for a safe landing during one of these kind of mass equipment and paratrooper drops. They burned in and sent up puffs of dust when they were stopped abruptly by the North Carolina dirt. I felt sorry for the boys that had to clean up that mess...well, not sorry enough to keep those crappy Gamma Goats around.

Below is an Air Force photo of a drop yesterday:

AIRBORNE, ALL THE WAY!!!...to the pub.

Here's the Air Force write up of the Large Package Week.

Update: Can't help this...Now, I normally don't take cheap shots at other military services (right, Jarhead Dad?), but I have to ask the question, "Who else but the Air Force would term an exercise Large Package Week?" Feeling a bit deficient, are you fellas? They should've gotten Wilt Chamberlain to be spokesman...

Sorry, couldn't help it, Zoomies.

*back to the normally PG-13 rated blog*

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It's Large Package Week

It's the Annual Large Package (Drop) Week at Pope AFB and Ft. Bragg where the Air Force gets to drop, well, lots of large things...including paratroopers. For those of you who are ancient enough to remember what Gamma Goats were, I saw the Army get rid of a few by not providing adequate canopy for a safe landing during one of these kind of mass equipment and paratrooper drops. They burned in and sent up puffs of dust when they were stopped abruptly by the North Carolina dirt. I felt sorry for the boys that had to clean up that mess...well, not sorry enough to keep those crappy Gamma Goats around.

Below is an Air Force photo of a drop yesterday:

AIRBORNE, ALL THE WAY!!!...to the pub.

Here's the Air Force write up of the Large Package Week.

Update: Can't help this...Now, I normally don't take cheap shots at other military services (right, Jarhead Dad?), but I have to ask the question, "Who else but the Air Force would term an exercise Large Package Week?" Feeling a bit deficient, are you fellas? They should've gotten Wilt Chamberlain to be spokesman...

Sorry, couldn't help it, Zoomies.

*back to the normally PG-13 rated blog*

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