Life as a Sky Diver

I used what they called the para commander at the time and we did some jumps into all the air shows at that time so we went around all the air show circuit which was quite interesting when you’ve never did it before and because it was associated with the airborne, we had to qualify as an airborne jumper in both static line and free fall so we all became qualified parachutists in the military so we could legally jump out of a military airplane which to us was no problem doing because we already had, I had over at the time when I started five hundred jumps so it was no problem qualifying and then different missions, they wanted to do one time, they were doing a demo down in Gagetown from there and they were going to do a mass drop and show how the pathfinders work and how the MFP, that we were referred to as high altitude, low opening jumpers would activate it, be activated in a situation and we did the halo jumps for them which didn’t turn out to be a halo, it was called mid range so we got out at 10,000 feet instead of 20,000 feet but we did do a couple of practice jumps at 20,000 just in case which was no problem but it just meant a nice long time in free fall.