Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise

[MADPEBS1]

http://www.military.com/daily-news/...s-jump-louisiana-part-no-notice-exercise.html

This would be pretty cool to watch from perimeter, Not jumping out of a perfectly good airplane, But I would LOVED to be on a plane doing this: "In preparation for the airborne operation, the planes dove from 28,000 feet to 1,500 feet in a few short minutes by shifting engines into reverse as part of a "tactical descent."

 

[TWL]

http://www.military.com/daily-news/...s-jump-louisiana-part-no-notice-exercise.html

This would be pretty cool to watch from perimeter, Not jumping out of a perfectly good airplane, But I would LOVED to be on a plane doing this: "In preparation for the airborne operation, the planes dove from 28,000 feet to 1,500 feet in a few short minutes by shifting engines into reverse as part of a "tactical descent."

Getting back to Bosnia after R&R, I was in a C130. About 10 minutes before landing in Tuzla, we did a rapid decent from cruising altitude to approx 1000'. If you didn't know before hand, you were crapping in your shorts. lol