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Any idea of the time frame for a pot painted in a dark green with out any texture would be? Has anyone come across a name taped into a helmet like this? Note the tape is the same green as the lid.

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There is no MOS requirement to attend Airborne School. Anyone being assigned to a Airborne div would have been required to attend, plus many volunteered to get the wings and the promotion points they offer. The school also offers this training to honor and distinguished BCT and MOS school grads at Benning.....something to strive for....as well as helps fill the available school seats.

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I went through Jump school in 1977, went onto the 82nd. The number I wore in jump school at Benning ( it was black stenciled) was " C33". I will recheck my number in my graduation book. All our gear was Vietnam era issue. The chalk number I assume , if this is a training liner, would be his jumps -3. Our last week was jump week, we had to make 5 jumps to get our wings. While in Jump school we used an issued helmet which was turned in after graduation, it had no camo cloth on them, and the trainee number was stenciled on the pot, not the liner, so I am puzzled as to a number in tape, on the liner. Any markings on the steel pot? I will think about this.

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In historical interest, I checked my Benning Jump book...it was 1978, I was not C33, just a plain number. Interesting the helmet numbers, " W" number was woman, N number was National Guard ?, "A" number Air Force ?, seems like yesterday.

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Another incentive was/ is jump pay. When on pistol team at Ft Bragg in 73, a jump qualified shooter was sick and could not make his jump. His buds tried to get me to wear his shirt and jump. Told them the standard saying about “ what falls from the sky”. LOL No offense to Airborne guys.

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I also remember we had three or four woman, all but one washed out, this one made it to jump week, I can't remember if she completed all 5 jumps.post-180924-0-88572500-1542674747_thumb.jpeg Also, correction, an "A" number on the helmet was an O1, officer, according to the name and rank list in my class book.

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I posted this helmet before. It has a cover with graffiti that indicate he was 1st Air Cav. in Vietnam 1966 to at least 67 and maybe 68. I know the first group sent to Vietnam was put together and sent post haste. I think this helmet reflects that. The lid and cover were sealed to the liner for a very long time. This is what I found when I pulled them apart. Go to my post on this M-1C for the rest of the pics.

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U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Gary M. Rose during U.S. Army Jump School at Fort Benning, Ga., September 1967. Photo courtesy of Gary M. Rose.

 

Rose was awarded the Medal of Honor October 2017 for actions during Operation Tail Wind serving as a 5th SFG Medic with an Exploitation Force.

 

https://www.army.mil/medalofhonor/rose/

 

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Doyler, Who was number "748"? My yearbook stated Benning Jump school could train 750 jumpers at one time....

I would have hated to be number 748 in the chow line....joking, although we marched to chow and the mess hall, I do not remember lining up in any numerical order.

 

 

Stephen Perry is the name.Photo was from Ft.Benning early 1966 graduation from Jump School.He wrote the book Bright Light and served with SF/SOG in Vietnam

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917, I was interested to see your yearbook date as I believe I graduated in aug 78.

Cool. A few years ago I took my boy to Benning on a weekend, walked the towers, and noticed some buildings gone....I went to the nearest building and stated I was here in 78 and things look different. The Sargent took me outside and asked what building I was in ,I replied my number was C 62, he said "the Charley company building is slated to be torn down in a few months, Alpha and Bravo barracks have already been leveled for the new barracks". That said, you need to make a trip back some day, the young soldiers treated me like a legend, I was very impressed with their discipline, respect, and courtesy shown to me and my boy...yeah , I know, what is a 59 year old ex-paratrooper doing with an 11 year old? Airborne all the Way!

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I posted this helmet before. It has a cover with graffiti that indicate he was 1st Air Cav. in Vietnam 1966 to at least 67 and maybe 68. I know the first group sent to Vietnam was put together and sent post haste. I think this helmet reflects that. The lid and cover were sealed to the liner for a very long time. This is what I found when I pulled them apart. Go to my post on this M-1C for the rest of the pics.

Given that info, I believe your liner helmet is not a jump school helmet, but obviously his Vietnam in theatre helmet...taped "223, three chalk marks", markings only the owner would understand. Three kills with the new 223 black rifle? Three in theatre jumps? ...trying to figure out what a late 60's 18/19 year old kid was thinking will drive you crazy.
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The roster number was also used at Air Assault School. Had to have your roster number painted on your steel helmet after 0 day for day 1 of training.

 

Roster number 241 was my number, ironically that was the same roster number I had during basic training at Fort Benning, GA in infantry school too. I thought the number would stick with me through my career but it was just a coincidence.

 

Leigh

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The roster number was also used at Air Assault School. Had to have your roster number painted on your steel helmet after 0 day for day 1 of training.

 

Roster number 241 was my number, ironically that was the same roster number I had during basic training at Fort Benning, GA in infantry school too. I thought the number would stick with me through my career but it was just a coincidence.

 

Leigh

Starting to make some sense, did our Air Assault boys also use jump helmets? I have no idea. Few Vietnam paratroop jumps are recorded, however, helicopter Air Assault operations were every day common.
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