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Posted: Fri 29 Sep, 2006 11:20 am
by Boondocksaint375
I didnt look around too much but found this site for you http://www.wood.army.mil/sapper/Photos/helocasting.htm

Just basic photos of a sapper helocasting. Basically the helo flies in.... you hop out, helo takes off, and you swim to shore. It is nothing more than a way to "quickly and covertly" get to your objective.

Posted: Fri 29 Sep, 2006 11:22 am
by dwarfy
CC,

http://www.army.mod.uk/uksf/special_for ... e_/sbs.htm

Third photo down, is this what your thinking of?

Posted: Sun 01 Oct, 2006 6:39 pm
by sneaky beaky
That poor old Sapper must have a lousy pilot! Through him out from about thirty feet!!
I'd have wanted a parachute from that height!!

Dwarfy's picture looks very much like the view out of the back of a RAF Hercules during a "water jump" session. I believe parachutes were used!!
Sneaky

Posted: Wed 04 Oct, 2006 6:46 pm
by anglo-saxon
Since when has jumping off a bridge (presumably into a river) been considered an adventurous training activity? What possible purpose could it serve? Last time I looked, adventurous training included mounatineering, rock climbing, ice climbing, sailing, caving, windsurfing, and paragliding, etc.