Dear Green Beret...

[LRRPinator]

I've never written to a fashion advice columnist before, so this is my first time.

Does it hurt being sheared from a sheep, carded with finetoothed steel instruments, spun onto those bobbins at the yarn factory, immersed in boiling rifle-green dye and machine-knitted into a piece of headgear?

(OK, turning serious here... !)

Was it decided that this was a better title for the forum than, say, "Ask an SF'er"? We all KNOW that I'm not the first to haul out that wise-guy line "a Green Beret is a piece of headgear...".

[Mac679]

that's usually cause someone else beats you to the punchline....


got an odd question for ya LRRP, awhile back you mentioned a program to challenge the MFF course without attending the course at Bragg/Yuma. care to pass on that info? ( my unit ain't great on sending anyone to schools-and I couldn't get MFF from here anyways )

[LRRPinator]

The info that was passed on to me by the NCOIC of the TXARNG's full-time rigger shop is that the MFF Challenge Course is 13 days in duration rather than the usual 5 weeks, and is generally taught by training teams from Bragg/Yuma to those units with (1) a need and (2) enough eligible personnel, availability of training teams and funding subject to availablity, of course.

Latest info re: eligibility to do the "short" version of MFF:

(1) Qualified/current military static line parachutist.

(2) Current Army Class 2 flight physical. NOTE: the so-called "modified" Class 2 required by... *ahem*... a certain unit which doesn't exist and that we don't discuss here is no longer the required medical prerequisite for MFF, only the "standard" Class 2. This means that a distant visual acuity of 20/400 correctable with glasses to 20/20 in each eye separately is now good-to-go.

(3) Meet the experience requirements for the USPA B License. This would entail having logged at least 50 sport freefalls. Needless to say, this is a considerable financial expenditure on the individual's part.