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To: faqsnlojiks who wrote (7168)3/18/2000 11:29:00 AM
From: Blue Snowshoe  Read Replies (1) of 7442
 
Joe, I thought I'd share a few of my ships with you. This is the C-7A. The first time I jumped one a cherry grunt next to me said, "Doc, the wings are shaking on this thing". He was right, on taxi one may think the wings might come off.
They were small and slow but they did a job other craft could not. They were an easy jump because you didn't jump them, you walked off the lowered tailgate.
The guys that flew them had guts, true heroes that Hollywood never told the public about because they were too busy making fictional movies about our troops killing our troops.
The guys who flew the C-7A could take off and land on a dime. Many of Vietnam's wounded were carried out of remote areas on these planes and many Special Ops Paratroopers have stepped off the tailgate into the night, well behind the lines or where there were no lines.
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