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datura I Can Fly Five Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit Three (E ODMU-3), cling to a line beneath a MH-60S Knighthawk helicopter. The EOD Team was flown over San Diego harbor during a demonstration, known as " spy-rigging," an evolution used by the Navy and Marine Corps for hasty p lacement and extraction in hostile areas. In the following photo, this is the view as seen from the rope. For any o ther old soldiers here that remember "fast roping", this seems to be a g reat improvement upon that technique which was rather hazardous at best. For any current active duty soldiers in here that have done this I have a question: Do you remain below the aircraft all of the way to or from yo ur destination, or do they winch you up into the helo? Fast roping out o f a Huey (never did it out of a BlackHawk, but the Rangers did in Somali a) had you exiting the bird at the destination only, and wasn't capable of extract. View Replies To: datura I can answer your question on this. I was Navy got to do this once as par t of an goodwill between squadrons aboard the carrier. You stay connect from point A to point B It is a heck of a ride. I worked Roach Coach(hot/cold food truck) on Eglin AFB when I was 19, and the EOD guys were my favorite stop. They were always full of humor, but the craziest guys I'd ever met in the military(and I spent almost all 19 living on AFB's). They had rattlesna ke skins on the wall, time bomb clocks and a cave outside to do exercise s in. I later dated the Chief Msgt's daughter over that unit and got to see ano ther room inside. They had glass display cases of every type of IED you can think of, from rat traps to ciggarette packs. View Replies To: konaice Hey - I'm on a modem, and they don't take that long to load. You folks lu cky enough to have broadband have no room to complain. That second photo makes a great desktop - it gives me the willies every t ime I look at it. That must be something to stabilize the rope at the end . View Replies To: Se7eN I got my first taste of the EOD guys doing a seep of an impact area in Ge rmany. The first time I saw one of them kick the exposed tailfins of a m ortar round out of the ground I almost hit the dirt. I repeated that for years whenever I was around Lieutenants in an impact area. View Replies To: datura It's just a A3 bag that the line is stowed in and can be weighted in high winds when dropped from the helicopter to keep it from flying up into t he tail rotors...... View Replies To: Squantos What about weapons in this configuration? I don't see any provision for a nything other than a pistol, no long weapons. Seems to me that you'd get to your destination extremely pumped up - like having taken a bottle of Viagra - but that wouldn't help too much on most objectives. View Replies To: datura It's not where you are, but where you are in relation to (exchange? When I say I'm at the end of a long range of copper (tel ephone wire) I mean it. A friend who used to work in telephony tells me that we live at just about the maximum range. View Replies To: datura All yer gear is attached to "you" so you have a primary point of connecti on and a safety "cheater" strap. They are just wearing the harness vs a load bearing vest under the harness. Some of the older vests we used had the harness built in. I did this a few times at Ft Story VA and then du ring my career never needed it again...... View Replies To: All "The EOD Team was flown over San Diego harbor during a demonstration, kno wn as "spy-rigging," an evolution used by the Navy and Marine Corps for hasty placement and extraction in hostile areas". It's actually a SPIE (Special Purpose Insertion Extraction) Rig. View Replies To: datura Ah - to be 18 again and go for EOD training. I was "loosely" attatched to EOD Unit 2 as an "underwater swimmer" when t hey would join us on our Minesweepers - out of Little Creek VA. View Replies To: Pete'sWife I have a quasi fear of height. I saw a picture on the net a few weeks ago that was taken by someone sticking their camera over the side of high r ise. View Replies To: datura I used to see the SEALs in training doing this in San Diego harbor. The spread-eagled arms and legs are supposed to keep 'em from spinning. View Replies To: datura Couple more things - my broadband loaded the pics almost instantly - IMO the second pic wouldn't look near as cool if it were smaller. Also, I got to watch my brother in law (SEAL Team 1) do lots of these ins ertion/extraction maneuvers (Pardon my layman's terminology) years ago. I can't stand to see other people doing it--pictures , movies, real life. Went to the circus last week and it was very scary- -all I could think the whole time was that someone was going to lose the ir balance and fall. Most of them had nets but I think the lady that had the horses and also was hoisted into the air and did some "tricks" up t here didn't. The one act that freaked me out the most was a couple that was walking upside down--way above the arena. View Replies To: datura Is that a CIWS visible in the second picture? On the carrier's port side, to the left of the fourth aircraft from the bottom? Of course, I imagine if they were doing it for keepsies i t wouldn't be under daylight conditions, which would tend to diminish th e fun factor a bit... View Replies To: sionnsar in the case of uncorrectable osculation The word you want, I suspect, is "oscillation." You stick to your special operations and he'll stick to his! 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