Jumping With Parachutes The tough, rough soldier from a backwoods country had just been assigned to the paratroops at his own request. His sergeant warned him: “It’s a tough duty and you’ve got to do a lot of dangerous jumping!” “I know that, sergeant. What height are we all supposed to jump from?” “Five hundred feet,” the sergeant replied. “Nothing doing, sergeant,” the soldier said. “It’s too high. Can’t you all make it three hundred feet?” The sergeant explained that in jumping from such a low altitude there was danger of the parachute not opening in time. The man broke into a happy smile. “Hot dog!” he said. “Do we get parachutes, too?”
Posted on: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 19:00:02 +0000
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