Re: Chewing Tobacco Epidemic ...

Posted by Terry Nelson on July 21, 2002 at 05:15:24 from (67.250.178.201):

In Reply to: Chewing Tobacco Epidemic ... posted by Alberta Mike on July 20, 2002 at 14:20:18:

One of our missions in the C-141 was combat airdrop, including army paratroops, and many of them chew. Often, the troops would get queasy before a jump, especially in the heat (120-130 degrees in aircraft before takeoff) and humidity of the Southeast U.S., and especially on a rough low level entry to the drop zone after an air refueling. It wasn't uncommon for them to get sick on these missions. There was a lot of rivalry and competitive comeraderie with and among the jumpers and our loadmasters who interfaced with them, opening doors, coordinating the jump, etc. One of my highly experienced loadmasters, a 275 pound former lumberjack, would break up beef or venison jerky into small strings and fill a chewing tobacco bag with it, then walk around in the back of the aircraft when the jumpers were getting queasy and demonstrably open the tobacco bag and eat the jerky in their view. Inevitably, the vomiting would start and it would affect almost all of the jumpers. When the "green light" would illuminate, out the jump door they would go in a trail of airborne vomit, tobacco puke, etc. Always had to give the jumpers credit for their tenacity, but we knew that they really wanted to get out of that aircraft more than anything!!

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