Or something that own Grunt Style and Soldier Systems.

Graphic represents a Fast Rope attached to the rotor plate mount or whatever it’s called that’s an arm sticking about 4 feet out from the doors of the helo, on both sides below the rotor blades. [edit: Blackhawk Helo]

Guys line up and jump out the door into the air, grabbing the rope with gloved hands and then putting their boot insoles around the rope to slide down, similar to a fire pole but much faster. Fast roping became a lexicon when Ranger PFC Todd Blackburn somehow missed grabbing the rope when he jumped out and fell 60-90 feet at the beginning of Gothic Serpent (Blackhawk Down) in 1993. Before that, everyone rappelled.

The Nine Line request is a set of info you use to call in a medevac request on the radio, detailing conditions of patients and medevac requirements.




[Post edited by reconhokie at 03/21/2022 7:58PM]