Putter's 700th Jump Woohoo!!!

Congrats to Eric !!!

be sure to read his  email to Dennis below..!!

Hey Dennis Well last Thursday was the start of year two here at USAFA. Thebest part of this school year is that I have my AF Jump Wings and I love it. I got my wings pinned on a week ago and yes I even got blood wings (My wings were punched into my chest. It didn't hurt till the next day). Overall I found the entire jump program here to be...wellfun... but overkill. With three days of ground school from 6 - 6 everyone of those days I not only was bored out of mind at times but found myself wanting to tell my instructor...ok can we just jump now. Lucky for me I got selected to jump on the first plane load on the first jump day. I was the last one out of the plane and got to laugh at all the kids getting out in front of me trying to swim back into the plane and do the running man while falling. It as a great jump and felt awesome to jump out of and airplane again (isn't it sad that a person who wants to fly airplanes also loves to jump out of them.) After two days of jumping I got my wings. I received two jumps day one and then three in a row on the next day which made me happy...drop your rig grab another and stand in line. Overall I received Q1 on all 5 of myjumps with no retraining, and an overall perfect on my grade card. The only downside of the entire summer came last Saturday when we signed up for Wings of Green. I fit every requirement but one...you had to have a 2.6 min GPA...well...with my luck I have a 2.59... (No joke).In the end because of .01 I am not on wings of green which my instructor and jumpmaster said I would had made with no problem. SOOOOO..... all this means is I do not get to spend every weekend jumping out of airplanes here at USAFA and will just have to receive all my thrills and fun with the great people at QC Skydiving. In conclusion as the rain falls for the 7 straight day I want to again thank you for the 10 best times of my life you allowed me to have at ho> me. I owe you for every Q1 jump I did here at USAFA and to show you my thanks within the next week or two you should be receiving my original jump wings. AF tradition states that you jump with your wings on your last jump... then wear them for every minute of 24 hours after that jump and then have them punched into your chest. After all of this they are not to be worn again and giving to someone to keep. So my clear cut decision was you and all of the people at QC Skydiving. Again I want to thank you and cannot wait to jump with everyone again when I am home. C3C Eric Darwin USAFA Class of 2010 CS-18 Nightriders USAF Academy