Yeah, I wonder that too, but I've read that 42% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Navy Helo Down, all hands safe.
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Yeah, I wonder that too, but I've read that 42% of statistics are made up on the spot.
Yeah, but 25% of the time it works all the time.
phrogpilot73
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Man, you guys must be lucky. Like HH-60H said, I remember the initial API stuff being PAINFUL classroom stuff on all thing physiological. More than about 30-45 minutes.
When I requaled in the dunker in Jacksonville, I seem to remember the first day was classroom then we were in the pool every day after that. I have to do it again as part of my coming back in, so I guess I'll see...
"Watch what the monkey eats...and then...eat the monkey."
Fair enough, as I was referring to the helo portion of the training, which is pretty quick in the classroom, as well as the 4 year requal course, which is mostly in the pool.
For those of you who haven't been through a water survival requal in a while, you'll find it very different from the olden days of API. I think there was a thread about this at some point, but the big push has been to make it realistic and hands on as opposed to the Powerpoint induced coma. I've done two, one at Miramar (day rescue, since the pool was outdoors) and one at NPA (night rescue) and it was pretty realistic...except for that whole swim 10 feet and bonk your head on the wall thing.