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Fast-roping is a convenient and effective way to insert troops quickly, but it has inherent dangers.

No parachutes. Here's What You Need To Remember: Fast-rope descents are increasingly used around the world by military forces, and while it may look simple it actually requires extensive training as there is no safety line to prevent a solider from falling. Last week during the Friendship 2020 joint military drills, Russian and Pakistani paratroopers took part in a unique airborne assault training exercise. What made this particular drill notable is that the paratroopers didn’t actually use parachutes, but instead practiced a fast-rope technique from helicopters that hovered high above the...

United states, and it was ten years in the making, two presidents were involved in it, hundreds of thousands of our intelligence and military personnel, and it ended successfully. president obama's involvement was to make one decision, an important decision, one decision. and i think what offends people is that instead of recognizing it as a national triumph and having everybody share in it, that the obama administration has tried to make it look like the president did everything, including fast roping out of the helicopter and pulling the trigger. that's what i find objectionable, because tha...