Noncommissioned officers help Natick’s Aerial Delivery Directorate researchers test the RA-1 parachute’s harness for comfort and fit in cold conditions created in the Doriot Climactic Chambers. Brrrrrr!
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I can hardly claim to have lead a life filled with discomfort and hard challenges, but hanging static in a mock-up harness rig definitely ranks up there on the “rather uncomfortable things” list.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck that.
Suspended agony, the only thing worse was the old STABO harness. After a long flight no one on the team could stand until the blood returned to our legs.l
So are the freefall chute harnesses more comfortable than static line chutes? Cause there’s no way in hell, I’d just hang around in a harness just for shits and giggles. Shit would start to go numb after a while.
…It all counts toward 20.
Does anybody have information on those overboots?
Looks like a modern version of Norwegian “toe caps”
The RA-1 is not the T-10. It was designed for long-distance offset infils. The harness is incredibly comfortable.
If it really is comfortable then it might be too bad of a duty, so long as you’re allowed the occasional drink and snacks, some headphones to listen to music, and reading material otherwise I’d be bored silly, comfortable harness or not.
Sure would beat the hell out of pulling staff duty…
I occasionally use the term “at ease in the harness,” a term apparently rarely used in today’s kindler, gentler Army. But it’s funny to watch the piss and vinegar crowd smile and wince.
Assignment at Natick is definitely a “what you make of it” gig. Not everyone gets it.