16,030 jumps on the credit of female Master Sgt. (!)

[2RHPZ]

Congrats, congrats, congrats ... woot

Army master sergeant sets her sights on world record skydive

By Kevin Maurer


Master Sgt. Cheryl Stearns spends a lot of time with her head in the clouds. She holds the world record for most jumps by a woman. And when she is not on active duty, she is a pilot for US Airways. Stearns is an Army Reserve soldier mobilized and attached to the Army Parachute Team, the Golden Knights.

She made her 16,000th skydive April 8 and had 16,030 jumps as of April 15. She also has more than 15,900 flying hours and more than 18,000 aircraft landings.

''I love flying. I just always have," she said.

To celebrate her 16,000th jump, members of the Golden Knights and Stearns formed a ''1" and a ''6" while free-falling.

''There weren't enough people to do all the zeros," Stearns said.

http://www.fortbraggnc.com/photos/2005/apr/m21stearns.jpg
Master Sgt. Cheryl Stearns boards a plane for a parachute jump. At left is Matt Davidson. Stearns is an Army Reserve soldier who is on active duty and attached to the Army Parachute Team, the Golden Knights.

Link (http://www.fortbraggnc.com/story.php?Template=local&Story=6955812)

[RGRBOX]

Great she can jump.. Not impressed... what can she do when she hits the ground... Sorry but if you don't do it a 0300 with at least 40lb ruck, your not Airborne...

Showjumper...

[2RHPZ]

Great she can jump.. Not impressed... what can she do when she hits the ground... Sorry but if you don't do it a 0300 with at least 40lb ruck, your not Airborne...

Showjumper...

Come on, be gentle! ;) I am impressed with such a big number. Otherwise I agree with you, I love nite time jumps ... woot

[RGRBOX]

Great she can jump.. Not impressed... what can she do when she hits the ground... Sorry but if you don't do it a 0300 with at least 40lb ruck, your not Airborne...

Showjumper...

Come on, be gentle! ;) I am impressed with such a big number. Otherwise I agree with you, I love nite time jumps ... woot

I can't be gentle with this kind of crap. I've got friends who pay a lot of money to jump and don't have the support she has. She is a Reseve NCO, who has probably never worked in her MOS. I was at Bragg, when a SF WO got the World Record in most jumps by Static Line in a 24 hour period. This guy was doing it as a challange. Where's the challange in what she does... The Golden Knights are rediculas... Those guys and gals go there and only do that. They get paid by the Government to show. They walk around looking cocky at Bragg, and there ShowJumpers, the guys and gals they should be writting about are the ones who do it as part of their jobs, not the ones who only do this... This kind of **** is a joke....

[Herrmannek]

Great she can jump.. Not impressed... what can she do when she hits the ground... Sorry but if you don't do it a 0300 with at least 40lb ruck, your not Airborne...

Showjumper...

Come on, be gentle! ;) I am impressed with such a big number. Otherwise I agree with you, I love nite time jumps ... woot
I heard every for 2000 of jumpers will die in parachute accident...curious how many jumpers she jumped over already...

[RGRBOX]

Great she can jump.. Not impressed... what can she do when she hits the ground... Sorry but if you don't do it a 0300 with at least 40lb ruck, your not Airborne...

Showjumper...

Come on, be gentle! ;) I am impressed with such a big number. Otherwise I agree with you, I love nite time jumps ... woot
I heard every for 2000 of jumpers will die in parachute accident...curious how many jumpers she jumped over already...

At Bragg when I was there the Major Malfuntion rate was 1 out of 80,000 jumps.. That a lot.. As for Freefall... couldn't tell you... but I'm sure it's a lower % of accident free jumps just because of all of the idiots that are allowed to exit a plane now days and aren't properly trained. This also goes back to the idea that the Civilain side of jumping is more accident ****e just because of the quality of jumpers...

[2Sheds_Jackson]

I'd be impressed if she got the world record for spending her free time and money helping out at a homeless shelter, or teaching kids to read. Jumping out of planes and calling attention to yourself isn't really anything all that noteworthy in my book.

[RGRBOX]

I'd be impressed if she got the world record for spending her free time and money helping out at a homeless shelter, or teaching kids to read. Jumping out of planes and calling attention to yourself isn't really anything all that noteworthy in my book.

X2

[Khabbi]

Isnt the golden knights alot of ex members of SF , Rangers , Airborn ?

[RGRBOX]

Isnt the golden knights alot of ex members of SF , Rangers , Airborn ?

No.. There may be some in the unit.. but they are a display team. I've read where people have join the unit when they enlisted into the Army. There was this chick back when I was in, who had a lot of Freefall jumps under her belt before she joined up, and went straight into the unit... What a bunch of ****... I remember seeing them running around in shorts and t-shirts all day when I was at Bragg. They only Jump.....

[California Joe]

Well now this didn't really go the way CAG thought it would now did it. :P

[11F5S]

Great she can jump.. Not impressed... what can she do when she hits the ground... Sorry but if you don't do it a 0300 with at least 40lb ruck, your not Airborne...

Showjumper...

Come on, be gentle! ;) I am impressed with such a big number. Otherwise I agree with you, I love nite time jumps ... woot

I can't be gentle with this kind of crap. I've got friends who pay a lot of money to jump and don't have the support she has. . She is a Reseve NCO, who has probably never worked in her MOS. I was at Bragg, when a SF WO got the World Record in most jumps by Static Line in a 24 hour period. This guy was doing it as a challange. Where's the challange in what she does... The Golden Knights are rediculas... Those guys and gals go there and only do that. They get paid by the Government to show. They walk around looking cocky at Bragg, and there ShowJumpers, the guys and gals they should be writting about are the ones who do it as part of their jobs, not the ones who only do this... This kind of **** is a joke....

[Where's the challenge??]

The Making Of A World Record

by Amy Markert

"Cheryl Stearns of Raeford, NC has landed her name in the parachuting world record books once again! On November 9, 1995 she completed 24 hours of continuous skydiving, with a total of 352 jumps! That equates to one jump every 4.09 minutes for 24 hours!!

The previously standing world records, officially recognized by the United States Parachute Association (USPA) and the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) were: for women - 255 jumps set by Cheryl Stearns in 1987 at Lodi, CA and for men - 331 jumps set by Jay Stokes earlier this year at Raeford, NC."

http://www.womenssportslink.com/MakingAWorldRecord.shtml

Another challege for MSG Stearns - STRATOQUEST

To reach the Stratosphere, Cheryl Stearns will pilot a helium balloon and ride in an open gondola. After approximately 3 hours of ascent, she will reach her target altitude of 130,000 feet. At that point, Cheryl will detach her external life support systems and exit the gondola. During Cheryl’s free fall, she must keep her body in a head-down attitude. Her descent will take approximately 5.5 minutes and she could reach a speed of up to 1.3 MACH (885 mph)! At the designated altitude, Cheryl will deploy her parachute and make her landing. Cheryl Stearns' record-setting free-fall attempt from 130,000 feet.

http://www.stratoquest.com/

Never Worked in he MOS!!!! Take your head out of your ass before engaging your keyboard.

J-4 supply MSG ‘jumps’ into her work

By SSG Patrick Cloward
If anyone ever said that
MSG Cheryl Stearns has her
head in the clouds, they might
just be right.
Stearns is an airline pilot ...
flying Boeing 757/767s and
was originally part of the
Army Parachute Team with
the United States Special
Operations Command. She
currently works at the J-4 supply
warehouse as the supply
first sergeant. Working for the
JTF as an augmentee, Stearns
considers her six-month
deployment as her “Caribbean
vacation.”
“I’ve been flying and jumping
out of planes for 32 years
without a break,” Stearns said
of her career as the 21 time US
women’s skydiving champion.
“[My duty here] will be
rewarding because I’m accomplishing
something, but it’s a
different sort of challenge.
None of this is work for me. I
can’t believe they’re paying me
to do this.”
Stearns describes her life as
one goal after another. But she
takes the most pride in being a
role model for other women
who want to achieve something
that might not have been open
to them in the beginning. She is
the consummate example of
what you can do, given enough
drive and determination.
Cheryl Stearns is the most
decorated skydiver in the world
and holds the record for most
jumps in 24 hours of any
woman in the world. She is the
U.S. and world record holder in
women’s accuracy parachuting
and has broken 30 world
records. She has more jumps
than any other woman in the
world; and has held four different
world records simultaneously
– a feat no man or
woman has ever matched.
“Thirty years ago the doors
weren’t open for competitive
skydiving for women,” Stearns
said. “Of course over the years
a lot of things have changed
because of what I did and what
I was,” Stearns said of the
tremendous persistence and
patience she needed to finally
be accepted on the Army’s
parachute team, The Golden
Knights. “It takes six weeks for
tryouts,” she said. “Mine was
two years long. During the
process you have to be selected
among 100 people and there
were only five slots that year. I
had to break barriers and convince
people to be on the team.
But I didn’t just want to be on
the team. I came there to be a
world champion.”
Since winning her first
world championship of Style
and Accuracy Skydiving in
1978 at age 23, Stearns proved
she was still the world’s best by
repeating as women’s champion
at the biannual championship
16 years later. Along the
way she has also won the overall
women’s title at the military
world championships in 1991,
1995, and 1996.
Stearns is the most successful
competitive skydiver in the
world.
“Most women [who are
parachuting now] aren’t at the

age I’ve been in the Army,”
said Stearns
“Through my military
career, I’ve mostly been on
special duty assignments
including serving in the
National Guard and Reserves.”
When she first joined the
Army her original skill was
working as a photography lab
technician, but most of the military
has done away with
chemical developing.
So for now she works in
supply. “They ask why don’t I
get commissioned,” said
Stearns. “The bottom line is
that all I want to do is jump
and give myself back into
opening more doors for those
who follow me. I want to figure
out how to get back on the
parachute team as a reservist.
So that’s why I stayed enlisted,
because I wanted to finish my
career jumping.”
Stearns seems far from finishing
anything.
A fitness fanatic, she has
described an average “jumping
day,” where she runs five miles,
jumps out of planes eight to ten
times, does a 30-mile, two-hour
outdoor bike ride and then lifts
weights for fifteen minutes. If
the weather is bad, she works
out indoors for at least two
hours.
“If I can find a great gym
while on the road, I'll work out
for three hours if I have nothing
else to do,” she says. “Of
course, I’d prefer to be outside
hiking and biking all day, but
I’d be a happy camper to just
work out all day too.”
During her deployment, the
JTF benefits from her constant
vitality.
“I’m doing a job I’ve never
done in my entire life,” said
Stearns. “This job has been
challenging because there
were some difficulties with the
way things were done. I came
in to fix a broken system and
get a working system in place
so it can continue on after I
leave. I always find something
that makes it more challenging.”
Friday, March 26, 2004 Page 4


http://www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil/content/wire/v04/i28/040326_I28_the%20wire%20complied.pdf


It looks like Mike has a problem with women like Cheryl Stearns, he sees them as a threat to his manhood.

Cheryl Sterns is a MSG, when did you make E-8 Mike?

She is the most decorated skydiver in the world with more than 16000 jumps ...how many jumps do you have?

She has been on both the USSOCOM Parachute Team and the Golden Knights....How about you?

She is licensed to fly 737's, 757's, and 767's in the Captains Chair.....what aircraft are you licensed to fly commercially?

[California Joe]

She sounds like a real type A overachiever.

Nothing wrong with that.

[2RHPZ]

Well now this didn't really go the way CAG thought it would now did it. :P

:P No, it doesn´t ...

I know what mikebox is talking about but I don´t care. I was to visit Golden Knights in Fort Bragg several years ago. The youngest guy (he was 21) was ordered to take care of us. I was amazing (and also little bit upset) when I realized that in his age he had more then 4,500 freefalls on his credit! Jumping, jumping, nothing but jumping. Look, also we have our own Military Parachuting Club. They are in the world´s top five. Sometimes they jumped together with us and we were always angry because they had always priority. Anyway, at that time their Sergeant Major (of GK) was ex-Delta. Great guy ...

[Khabbi]

Isnt the golden knights alot of ex members of SF , Rangers , Airborn ?

No.. There may be some in the unit.. but they are a display team. I've read where people have join the unit when they enlisted into the Army. There was this chick back when I was in, who had a lot of Freefall jumps under her belt before she joined up, and went straight into the unit... What a bunch of ****... I remember seeing them running around in shorts and t-shirts all day when I was at Bragg. They only Jump.....

oh , so how about the "Leap Frogs " thought most of them were SEALs ?
or am I wrong about that one too ?

[11F5S]

She sounds like a real type A overachiever.

Nothing wrong with that.

With her plan to jump from 130,000 ft, I'd call her a type "S" achiever. Stratospheric.. :lol:

[California Joe]

Damn right. Gawd that's high.

[2RHPZ]

OK, Paras, what was your most interesting jump, type of plane, DZ, etc.

I did a varied jumps from more then 10 military aircraft - but above all I love night time jumps, I got 18 on my account. One of my favorite Czech jumps was static line in full gear from Mi-17 HIP, daylight, stabilization fall 3 second, from 180 meters. My foreign jump? Probably first with T10C (US) from Blackhawk. Awesome, relaxing ...

[11F5S]

I'd be impressed if she got the world record for spending her free time and money helping out at a homeless shelter, or teaching kids to read. Jumping out of planes and calling attention to yourself isn't really anything all that noteworthy in my book.

Somehow I doubt "your book" is on the NY Times Best-Seller List. :P

I call her "donation" of time to Task Force Guantanamo Bay quite noteworthy.

[Trident-za]

As an ex-para I'd agree that doing jumps at night, with kit, and with people shooting at you is a bit more challenging than just jumping, but... come on guys. How many of you have 16 000+ jumps to your name? When you've done that, feel free to ridicule her achievements, until then - keep your ego in check.

[11F5S]

Damn right. Gawd that's high.

Higher than a kite can fly! :lol:

[JTAR7242]

Wow, the green in some of you is showing.

[11F5S]

Wow, the green in some of you is showing.

Greener than a geckos ass on St Patty's day
:lol:

[2Sheds_Jackson]

I'd be impressed if she got the world record for spending her free time and money helping out at a homeless shelter, or teaching kids to read. Jumping out of planes and calling attention to yourself isn't really anything all that noteworthy in my book.

Somehow I doubt "your book" is on the NY Times Best-Seller List. :P

I call her "donation" of time to Task Force Guantanamo Bay quite noteworthy.

>shrug< yeah but what's that got to do with jumping out of airplanes? I mean, it requires little more effort than putting on the gear, stepping onto a bus, and stepping off again (yeah, ok you have to steer a bit, and the last step is a bit longer than on a bus). Let's face it - it's something that people pay to do. It's fun. When you consider all the time and energy this woman has devoted to this thing - it just seems to me that it could have been better directed towards something that wasn't quite so meaningless and self-serving. It's not like it's some athletic, mental, or cultural achievement. It's just a numerical assessment of how many times she's gone through the motions. Like being the "champion" of playing Nintendo or putting things on top of other things. Or these douche bags who spend tens of thousands of dollars on covering their bodies with tatoos, while their neighbors could really use some help. Feh - it's ok I suppose. Everybody is good at something :|

[11F5S]

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[11F5S]

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[11F5S]

I'd be impressed if she got the world record for spending her free time and money helping out at a homeless shelter, or teaching kids to read. Jumping out of planes and calling attention to yourself isn't really anything all that noteworthy in my book.

Somehow I doubt "your book" is on the NY Times Best-Seller List. :P

I call her "donation" of time to Task Force Guantanamo Bay quite noteworthy.

>shrug< yeah but what's that got to do with jumping out of airplanes? I mean, it requires little more effort than putting on the gear, stepping onto a bus, and stepping off again (yeah, ok you have to steer a bit, and the last step is a bit longer than on a bus). Let's face it - it's something that people pay to do. It's fun. When you consider all the time and energy this woman has devoted to this thing - it just seems to me that it could have been better directed towards something that wasn't quite so meaningless and self-serving. It's not like it's some athletic, mental, or cultural achievement. It's just a numerical assessment of how many times she's gone through the motions. Like being the "champion" of playing Nintendo or putting things on top of other things. Or these douche bags who spend tens of thousands of dollars on covering their bodies with tatoos, while their neighbors could really use some help. Feh - it's ok I suppose. Everybody is good at something :|

Well WTF does donating money and teaching kids to read have to skydiving??? How do you know that she doesn't contribute generously to chartities?

You seem to have a very negative outlook towards people enjoing themselves.

Why aren't you down in Guantanamo or in Iraq or Afghanistan helping people instad of on the internet bitching about what other people do with their lives?

[Aerosoul]

Wow, 16000+ jumps? That's a lot of jumps. Seems like something would have gone wrong, heh.

I respect it...regardless of what she was carrying.

[2Sheds_Jackson]

I'd be impressed if she got the world record for spending her free time and money helping out at a homeless shelter, or teaching kids to read. Jumping out of planes and calling attention to yourself isn't really anything all that noteworthy in my book.

Somehow I doubt "your book" is on the NY Times Best-Seller List. :P

I call her "donation" of time to Task Force Guantanamo Bay quite noteworthy.

>shrug< yeah but what's that got to do with jumping out of airplanes? I mean, it requires little more effort than putting on the gear, stepping onto a bus, and stepping off again (yeah, ok you have to steer a bit, and the last step is a bit longer than on a bus). Let's face it - it's something that people pay to do. It's fun. When you consider all the time and energy this woman has devoted to this thing - it just seems to me that it could have been better directed towards something that wasn't quite so meaningless and self-serving. It's not like it's some athletic, mental, or cultural achievement. It's just a numerical assessment of how many times she's gone through the motions. Like being the "champion" of playing Nintendo or putting things on top of other things. Or these douche bags who spend tens of thousands of dollars on covering their bodies with tatoos, while their neighbors could really use some help. Feh - it's ok I suppose. Everybody is good at something :|

Well WTF does donating money and teaching kids to read have to skydiving??? How do you know that she doesn't contribute generously to chartities?

You seem to have a very negative outlook towards people enjoing themselves.

Why aren't you down in Guantanamo or in Iraq or Afghanistan helping people instad of on the internet bitching about what other people do with their lives?

Maybe I'm not making myself clear enough. I'm not criticizing this woman. I'm simply commenting on the fact that we're supposed to fall in line and heap praise upon somebody who is essentially spending their time having fun. I find that odd. There was a time when such things were thought of as frivolous. Our society has become relentlessly self-absorbed, as we engage in one self-congratulatory activity after another. According to her, and the story, she's practically devoted her life to this thing- which seems to me to be a very useless thing to devote one's life to. I would presume that if this woman devoted as much energy to helping the needy as she has to getting her name in the paper for stepping out of airplanes, that we would know of her marvelous contributions to mankind.

I really don't care about what this woman does in her spare time. That's the point I'm making here - I do not care that she has spent her time over the past decades amassing the number of times she's jumped out of planes. I do not regard it as an accomplishment worthy of mention or praise. I'm not saying she's a whore, a slut, tramp, skank, etc. - just that it's much ado about nothing. Ok, I will call here a "twit" for devoting so much time to something so worthless. "Yay! I'm the first female to walk 6 miles with an egg balanced on a spoon! Put me in a book!" Whatever.

I'm entitled to my opinion just like anybody else. I don't care what anybody does in their spare time - people can do whatever they want. It's just kind of silly to pretend recreational activities have any kind of significance or importance. I'm kind of amused by what passes for an accomplishment or milestone these days is all. May she continue to jump out of airplanes for years to come!

[California Joe]

Yet we do it with sports stars, paid millions of dollars to have fun everyday. I agree that's odd.

[2Sheds_Jackson]

Yet we do it with sports stars, paid millions of dollars to have fun everyday. I agree that's odd.

Well...it would be weird as all hell if one guy at a time just went out and drove around the track, not being timed, and not racing anybody. Which is kind of like just jumping out of a plane. "Woohoo! Fvck yeah! Go round that track at your own pace!" come on. Or maybe "Today 2Sheds became the first tool to circle Indianapolis Motor Speed way 16,000 times over 20 years". Would anybody care? Would they? Because if they would, I'll go get started. Seriously, I mean I could use some recognition for my accomplishments in this life.

Now if this woman would agree to race somebody to the ground on these jumps - a contest of nerves - who can get down faster...now that's something. Or I dunno, if she could land on the back of a speeding motorcycle while serving breakfast to her husband (sorry, it slipped) - pretty cool. :lol:

I don't mean to sound like a jackwad...but it just seems silly to me.

[11F5S]

Yet we do it with sports stars, paid millions of dollars to have fun everyday. I agree that's odd.

Well...it would be weird as all hell if one guy at a time just went out and drove around the track, not being timed, and not racing anybody. Which is kind of like just jumping out of a plane. "Woohoo! Fvck yeah! Go round that track at your own pace!" come on. Or maybe "Today 2Sheds became the first tool to circle Indianapolis Motor Speed way 16,000 times over 20 years". Would anybody care? Would they? Because if they would, I'll go get started. Seriously, I mean I could use some recognition for my accomplishments in this life.

Now if this woman would agree to race somebody to the ground on these jumps - a contest of nerves - who can get down faster...now that's something. Or I dunno, if she could land on the back of a speeding motorcycle while serving breakfast to her husband (sorry, it slipped) - pretty cool. :lol:

I don't mean to sound like a jackwad...but it just seems silly to me.

Not quite as silly as you spending time on here telling us how what she does is silly.

Why should she spend her time teaching someone elses kids to read? The last time I checked that was the job of the children's parents and school teachers.


I'm not criticizing this woman. I'm simply commenting on the fact that we're supposed to fall in line and heap praise upon somebody who is essentially spending their time having fun. I find that odd

Where in the world did you get that idea from? Comments are not a requirement on this or anyother BBS. Where did you see it mentioned that Cheryl Stearns was seeking our praise?


]It's not like it's some athletic, mental, or cultural achievement.

Obiviously you have zero knowlege of USPA freefall parachuting....it certainly takes athletic and mental ablities.

[hughdotoh]

She sounds like a real type A overachiever.

Nothing wrong with that.

Nothing wrong with achieving, it's just that does she have to make a big show out of it?

With all her stuff, I won't be surprised if she never had any time for her kids, and be less surprised if any of them would be in juvenile detention.

Mother Teresa, now SHE was an achiever.

[RGRBOX]

I've got no problem with what she does or the fact that she has so many jumps.. I was a Paratrooper in the Army for 10 yrs and I managed to rack up 83 jumps.. one in Combat. I'm not jealous of how many she has, I'm just a little disturbed with the fact that out of 21 years in the Army she has managed to do nothing but jump, has been given her E-8 stripes and only Worked for 6 months in her MOS. Big deal... They should be writting about people who get 10 jumps in 21 years and bust ass doing their MOS's and feeling the difficulties of life... I just think we are a little confused about what should count in life.. and although what she has done is a great achivement, so is the Supply Specialist who has been busting their asses for a few years supporting the troops in the War...

I was an E-6, 11B... Helping boys to become men... Not just a Jumper in it for myself...

I didn't chase jumps in the Army.. Jumping out of a plane is a delivery method into combat, just like an AMTRAC, Helo, pair of boots...etc..

[2RHPZ]

I didn't chase jumps in the Army.. Jumping out of a plane is a delivery method into combat, just live an AMTRC, Helo, pair of boots...

Good point ... I agree on 100%.

[RGRBOX]

Hey CAG, The koolist jump I made was my first one... I lived and walked away from it... or more like ran.. it was Airborne School...

[2RHPZ]

Hey CAG, The koolist jump I made was my first one... I lived and walked away from it... or more like ran.. it was Airborne School...

:)

[Buckeye67]

In other news, here's a photo of the current record holder for high-altitude parachuting, Col. Joseph W Kittinger, USAF

http://img245.echo.cx/img245/8861/kitt35av.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

August 16, 1960, from 102,800 feet, the highest altitude from which man has jumped. In freefall for 4.5 minutes at speeds up to 714 mph and temperatures as low as -94 degrees Fahrenheit, Kittinger opened his parachute at 18,000 feet. In addition to the altitude record, he set records for longest freefall and fastest speed by a man (without an aircraft).

Link (http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/eagles/kittnger.htm)


Edit: That looks like a long way to drop. p-)

[RGRBOX]

In other news, here's a photo of the current record holder for high-altitude parachuting, Col. Joseph W Kittinger, USAF

http://img245.echo.cx/img245/8861/kitt35av.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

August 16, 1960, from 102,800 feet, the highest altitude from which man has jumped. In freefall for 4.5 minutes at speeds up to 714 mph and temperatures as low as -94 degrees Fahrenheit, Kittinger opened his parachute at 18,000 feet. In addition to the altitude record, he set records for longest freefall and fastest speed by a man (without an aircraft).

Link (http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/eagles/kittnger.htm)


Edit: That looks like a long way to drop. p-)

He could have taken a lunch break on the way down... damn that up there...

Stand in the Door!

[Sabre]

Great she can jump.. Not impressed... what can she do when she hits the ground... Sorry but if you don't do it a 0300 with at least 40lb ruck, your not Airborne...

Showjumper...

Hollywood jumper!

:lol:

[Khabbi]

I really dont see the problem here

Her job is to jump , the GKs job is to jump , so thats what they do , and only do , their job is to show off , And even though she is kind of making a big deal of it , shes getting help from the Army and the press to make a big deal off it .


And like I said , the GKs job is to jump and win contests , I dont expect them to go find Osama and fight terrorism , in the same way I dont expect army nurses and regular infantry to go show off / win contests in sky diving