SPIE (Special Purpose Insertion and Extraction)

[Uncle Sam]

I know this has been posted before...But it's an awesome picture

http://img30.photobucket.com/albums/v89/bargus/SPIE.jpg

[gorg]

Right click, save :D

[ZoneOne]

that is an amazing picture

[Uncle Sam]

Yeah, I commend the guy who took it. Nice and sharp.

[Grim]

Can't get tired of pic's like that! nice angle p-)

[ibstolidude]

Just don't get the piss scared out of you.

[bertfivesix]

I'm getting vertigo just looking at that..

[SiFiOn]

Death from above...

[Scottie]

Hell from avove :lol: ;)

[Herrmannek]

Are they going up or down?

[Uncle Sam]

I think they're going that way. ;)

[Seoulstriker]

Just don't get the piss scared out of you.

Yeah, no kidding. They have their arms completely away from their bodies. Now, that's fearless. :D

[memphiz]

Awsome :D

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what is the advantage of this kind of insertion?

[Uncle Sam]

SPIE rigging is a technique developed during the Vietnam War by SEAL teams for situations when troops needed to leave a scenario quickly from an area a helicopter couldn’t land.


“Say, for instance, we’re on a ship and there is another ship close by and it gets hit with a missile and the missile is lodged in its side. We need to get to it, but the flight deck is fouled and the helo can’t land. We could use SPIE rigging to get from ship to ship,” said CM1(EOD/SW/AW) Keith Gillmer.

[Uncle Sam]

Just don't get the piss scared out of you.

Yeah, no kidding. They have their arms completely away from their bodies. Now, that's fearless. :D

They do that so they don't spin.

[EMAN]

Great Picture

But as Seinfeld points out, at that height the helmet is wearing you.