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Jump School - College Term Paper

Jump School

The hardest three weeks in my life had to have been going
through . Jumping out of planes always sounded like a good time. I
never really thought I'd get the chance to do it. was known as one
of toughest schools the Army has. I was so nervous, I had no ideal what was
instore for me. Once I got there ,the instructors gave everyone the weekend off .
We were told to be ready for week one, “Ground Training", on Monday morning.
" Ground Week ",the first weeks training, was mostly a
physical challenge. Everywhere I went I had to be running. If I was standing, in
line for chow, I had to be running in place. In between the running, they filled the
day with tumbling and rolling, to ...

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the Five Foot Tower. From this tower I jumped to the
ground and rolled away .The next tower was Fifty Foot Tower, a challenge just to
look over the edge. I was hooked to a parachute harness, that attached to a
cable. The cable ran down a slope to a hill about one hundred feet away.
Jumping out of the tower I raced along the ground till I came to the hill, where
someone stopped me. The final tower stood two hundred feet tall. Standing at
the bottom and looking up was enough to scare anyone. The instructor lowered
a parachute on a cable from the top.I was then strapped in and raised to the top.
At the top, after a count of three, the cable disconnected and I was free to fall
two hundred feet in a parachute. After getting comfortable with this I was ready
for the next week.
"Jump Week”, is the final week of training. I was so excited
to finally get to jump out of an air plane. During this week I had to make five
jumps to pass the course. The first jump was the ...

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Added: 5/21/2005 10:01:42 PM
Category: Miscellaneous
Type: Free Paper
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