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tomscharbach learning how to rappel head down

I've been wondering about this. They taught us to rappel feet first, so we'd end up standing on the ground when we got there. Why did your instructors want you to rappel head down? Were they just that mean?

tomscharbach

WetGeek I've been wondering about this. They taught us to rappel feet first, so we'd end up standing on the ground when we got there. Why did your instructors want you to rappel head down? Were they just that mean?

The head-down technique allows a soldier to fire a weapon while descending and is standard in the UK, Canada and Australia military. The US uses the feet-first technique we both were trained to use, which gets a soldier on the ground more quickly in most cases (drop and catch) but leaves the soldier entirely vulnerable during descent. The head-down technique is frightening, to say the least, in comparison to the feet-first technique. I think that the US now trains Airborne, Ranger and Special Ops soldiers in both techniques.

WetGeek

brent err on the side of caution

Sounds a lot like "measure twice, cut once." I always thought that was good advice.

WetGeek

It's understandable that much of our news coverage today is about the death of Queen Elizabeth II, and that will continue for at least 10 days. But I thought I'd catch up on what's happening in the Artemis progam.

There was some speculation that Artemis 1 would need to return to the assembly building for serious testing and repairs, but that's now changed. They're now working on it on the launchpad, which may allow them to get it ready for another launch attempt sooner, rather than later. As the linked article indicates, they may still need to return it to the assembly building for further repairs.

brent

WetGeek There was some speculation that Artemis 1 would need to return to the assembly building for serious testing and repairs, but that's now changed. They're now working on it on the launchpad, which may allow them to get it ready for another launch attempt sooner, rather than later.

I don't think 11 down days of fixing and testing is rushing (attempting sooner rather than later) but semantics/pov. I get the impression 11 days was an 'easy' isolated repair contained to a section that has this luxury of time to get dialed in and foolproofed...unless things are cutthroat and political and there's things we can't know about like payload deadline, investors, etc etc? Heck i didn't even know the queen died til you told me....even Americans like me track and follow the Crown its part of American life....I loved Di and Fergie🙂....but if you ever told me back then that Camilla would ever sniff that rarefied Crown air I would of laughed and said
no way. Laugh's on me.

tomscharbach

Artemis has been delayed again, this time because of Tropical Storm Ian, which threatens to be a hurricane when it hits Florida next week.

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