David J: She should ridicule you, you dirty, stinky leg. Kidding. Sort of.
Two of the FTOs were shoddy pack jobs (my fault) on the new (at the time) steerables the Army was trying out. This is mid-1980s (the T10 era) and the Army was experimenting with LALO, HALO and rotary wing deployments and using new generation steerable chutes.
Talk about funny, I live right next to Camp Pendleton and coach youth football locally. A lot of my players are Marine kids and nothing gives me greater pleasure than wearing my Army hat to practice. It seems to irritate them to no end.
