1986_09 The Daily Collegian September 1986

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Students earn summer 'wings'
By LeRoy Barnett
Staff Writer
Seven CSUF Army ROTC cadets jumped
their way through airborne training at
Fort Benning, Ga. this summer" and now
wear silver airborne wings on their uni¬
forms.
The cadets — Henry Cole Stage, Robert
Sitze, Roy Seidmeyer, T.C. Fuller, Kath-
eryn Murch, Keith Vollert, Matthew Butler
— were sent two at a time through the
three week course, with some cadets gradu¬
ating Sept. 4, according to Lt. Col. James
W. Henderson, CSU F-profcssor of military
•science.
The primary purpose of the airborne
training is to build self-confidence in the
. cadets, Henderson said. Their training did
not deal solely with techniques of leaving
an aircraft and landing on the ground, he
said.
During the first week, the cadets were
taught the basics of the Parachute Land¬
ing Fall, how to wear the parachute, how
to land without breaking a leg. how to exit
the aircraft and were put through intense
physical training. Henderson said.
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"They Dush you real hard to see if yoaj
want to be there," Stage said. "They push
you real hard to see if you will fall out."
The program is voluntary and the part¬
icipants can go home at anytime.
The second week is tower week where
the cadets jump from a 32-foot tower and
are dropped from a 250-foot tower.
The 32-foot tower is on a pulley and the
cadets learn how to exit the door of the
aircraft and "the jolt they'll feel when the
chute finally fills with air gives them a
yank upon leaving the aircraft," Henderson
said.
The cadets were pulled up to the 250-
foot tower and automatically released.
The chute expanded by a metal frame
when released and the cadets fell 250 feet.
In the third week, the cadets were
required to make five successful jumps
from a C-130 prop engine air plane or a
C-I4I jet traveling at 120 knots from an
altitude of 1,250 feet over the drop zone.
"You have to make five successful exits
and four successful landings," Vollert said.
Murch said it was quite different to
jump off the tower than from the airplane.
"With the tower you can see the ground,
you are only 32 feet off the ground and
you're saying, 'I really don't trust this
thing.' After the first five or six jumps
from the tower, you decide that you are
not going to fall and they are going to
catch you," Murch said.
"When you get up in the plane it is like,
'I'm better than a thousand feet off the
ground, I don't want to go,' but you're in
the middle of everybody else and you say,
'Okay, I'm gonna go.'Once you get out of
the airplane, it's great."
Vollert said, "The first jump (from the
airplane) is pretty bad — you don't know
what to expect — but after that it gets a lot
better because you know what to expect."
Stage said, "Some of us got to be-the
first man in the stick ( a Iine'bf soldiers)
and the jump master looks at you. slaps,
his thigh and says. 'Stand. Hit the door.'"
"So you walk up there and put your
hands on the outside of the aircraft, put
your toes over the edge, put your knees in
the breeze and stand there for about 30
seconds and watch the drop zone come
up.
"Then you feel this explosion intheseat
of your pants and he says. 'Go.' And it's
over with      it's quiet, it's peaceful. You
See ROTC, page 8
The Academic Senate Executive Com¬
mittee will meet today at 3 p.m. in Room
203 of the Main Cafeteria.
The CSUF International and American
Business Students Association will meet
today at 4 p%.m. in Room 310 of the College
Union.
College Night will be held this evening
at the Fresno Convention Center Exhibit
Hall from 6 to 9 p.m. More than 70
universities and colleges will have represen¬
tatives available to answer questions and
provide information on admission require-
r"-">fs for Fresno area students in prades
seven through 12 and their parents.
The Student Affairs Committee will
meet Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. in Room 203 of
the Main Cafeteria.
The Personnel Committee will meet
Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. in Room 203 of the
Mam Cafeteria. X
The Faculty-Staff Bible Study Will meet
Tuesday at noon in Room 193 of, the Old
Science Building.
The CSUF Child Care Advisory Board
will meet Tuesday. For more information,
call Joi Gleason at 294-2656.
PEACE
Continued from page 1  _/ '_.
the event a month ago. "From research
that was done by the national chapter
of ESR. we found that at best,
childrcrf have a vague concept of
peace and at worst, a negative con¬
cept." said Reeves.
According to Reeves' the event
came about "rather spontaneously"
after she spent every night of last
month on the phone organizing
various groups. "All of the groups
put in a lot of work." said Reeves.
"Every group contributed an aft
activity and there were more than 20
groups that were interested, but
unable to participate this year."
The fair was sponsored by The
Fresno Year of Peace Committee
and the Fresno Bee, which con¬
tributed 20,000 of the 27.500 brofc
chures mailed throughout the com¬
munity to advertise the festivities.
Amid the activities taking place were
booths that contained printed
materials and art activites for both
the children and their parents.
. One booth was sponsored by Psy¬
chologists for Social Responsibility.
Their exhibit contained a large bill¬
board with a list of things Children
know about nuclear weapons.
According to the list, childreri
aged ten and above know that large
numbers of nuclear weapons exist:
that they and their family have no
protection from nuclear weapons;
and that nuclear weapons may be
capable of destroying life on earth.
Liz Maury, a psychologist" who
works in Fresno at a private practice.
See PEACE, page 5
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