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Post by SeaRat on Feb 17, 2018 9:30:24 GMT -8
Well, Jaybird, I finally found those photos of me as a smokejumper at the North Cascades Smokejumper Base in 1972. Here they are: Here, I just back from a fire, probably in Alaska. 'Haven't even had a shower yet. Here I'm in my actual jump gear from the U.S. Forest Service at N.C.S.B. This is different from the USAF tree jump gear, a bit older. The pouches on my leg have 250 feet of letdown tape in the right leg pocket, and survival gear in the left leg, as well as signaling stuff. Again, I am back just off a fire, and rather dirty and unshowered. N.C.S.B. suffered a huge set of losses a few years ago when a fire took some lives. I'll try to find more about this and post it here. This was 1972, and the Napa and Santa Rosa fires had both smokejumpers and helitack participants, and fire crews from all over. I want you and others to know how hard these people worked on these fires too, to keep our forests, homes and communities safe. John
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Post by nikeajax on Feb 17, 2018 10:51:17 GMT -8
I see you were reading "Little Big man", strange, strange film! WOW--that second image is 3000% awesome: the details alone are a story in themselves! The big pouch-packs at your ankles really remind me of how the Apollo lunar-crews stored their hand-tools. So, after shedding your chute, how much did all that gear weigh? Thanks for sharing my friend JB
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