Airborne Daddy
C-130 rollin' down the strip64 Rangers on a one-way trip
Mission Top Secret, destination unknown
We don't know if we're ever coming home
--C 130, Army running cadence
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The last few publicized parachute jumps by George H. W. Bush have been with the Army Golden Knights Parachute Team ("Ex-Pres Bush Goes Skydiving Again.") The Golden Knights are not a privately-funded sports parachute club, but an entity of the U.S. Army which is totally funded by U.S. tax dollars.
GHWB is not a military member -- he is not the Commander in Chief and he has no official role in the U.S. government or military. He is a retired politico and as such, the Golden Knights are not at his beck and call.
If Bush the elder wants to fall out of perfectly good airplanes then let him pay for the experience out of his own pocket. Ranger strenuously objects to Army funds being used for the entertainment and pleasure of a Bush former president. Obviously, GWB and GHWB feel that the U.S. Army is constituted as their personal plaything.
Please don't tell Ranger that the Golden Knights are used because security is required during these photo-op jumps, presumably taken under the camera's watchful eye to allow the 83-year-old's presented machismo to somehow rub off on the feckless son.
Ft. Bragg has a wonderful Sports Parachute Club operated in a secure environment, and is slap filled with patriotic parachutists, all of whom pay for their own jumps. If GHWB is so strapped for cash, he could tandem-jump for free by just asking.
After all, there are plenty of homeless and needy vets, so being a veteran and down-at-heel isn't a sin. Why should GHWB be any different?
Labels: u.s. army not bush's plaything
posted by rangeragainstwar at 9:25 PM
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And to think, I had stopped being snarly. Silly me...good moods are apparently for ex-GOP-Presidents who get to play Army w/o actually having to be shot at for the privilege. See...I can TOO snarl and breath at the same time!
labrys,
We women are the original multi-taskers, and those two skills must occur simultaneously!
Really brave people don't jump tandem. I did it once after already making a couple solo jumps because, IIRC, it was from a higher altitude than beginners were taken to.
But it was more like an amusement ride than actually taking responsibility for one's own life.
No wonder Dim Son is a wuss.
spiider,
Good observation. America is in the tandem rig, with George Bush controlling the parachute. We're on a freefall into the abyss.
Yep, that's exactly how this former squid felt watching W use an S3 and an entire aircraft carrier for a photo op, delaying the carrier's return to homeport by a day. That little stunt cost millions of dollars and required the involuntary participation of thousands of sailors, just so monkeyboy could play aviator for a day and spout another lie.
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