

All of the jumps were in the daytime though mine were all night jumps. Jump School was indeed terrifying despite the small number of jumps, just five, that we were required to make. Well, just two short years in the regular “go nowhere, do nothing” Army and I was ready to jump out of high-in-the-sky airplanes parachute or no parachute. I was then as I am still horrendously terrified of heights - woe is me! My fear of altitudes was keeping me from going to Airborne Jump School and stuck in my current morass of resolve. That was a great path forward, but with a near insurmountable obstacle - you had to be a paratrooper! Jumping from an airplane in flight was fine by me, the problem associated with that was that most airplanes had to be really high up before you jumped out of them.
