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Show OREM TIMES Page 11 v v CELEBRATIONS, OBITUARIES, LEGAL NOTICES AND MORE Women's version of war Celebrations veterans Editor's note: This is the third in a series on Irene Adams. Male veterans who have gone through jump school can relate to Adam's experience; here's the version for the women. Thursday, March 15, 2007 There were five women in my company of 200 men (and about 15 women in the five companies). We were no longer called WAC's (Women's Army Corps), but were simply EW's and EM's (enlisted women and enlisted men). Part of the test for women who went to parachute packing school was to pack a parachute and then jump with it the next day and you could be asked to do that at any time. So we had to be jump qualified. Airborne school lasts three weeks. The first week is called ground week, and you do lots and lots of exercises. You especially do a lot of falling fall-ing down, to learn how to fall properly and not get hurt.. So you're standing, jumping in the air a little bit, and then falling. Then you step up on platforms of various heights and fall off. During the second week, power week, you move to higher things. One apparatus swings and drops you. You walk up a stairs, then jump out of a tower and are carried car-ried down a cable. You count to four, then look up to see if your parachute has opened. You are simulating an actual jump. Other towers swing you so you can see what it's like if the wind is hitting you from different directions. Then you go to the high tower. If you pass each stage, you move on Free car seat safety checks The Utah County Health Department, De-partment, in cooperation with the Safe Kids of Utah County, will hold free car seat inspections inspec-tions and safety belt fit tests on Tuesday from 2 to 5 p.m. at Ba-bies-R-Us., 106 East University Parkway, Orem. Inspections will be conducted conduct-ed on a first comefirst served basis in the parking lot. 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Nobody wants to recycle, and nobody wants to get hurt. If you do get hurt, you don't claim it. All of us were given a number, num-ber, which we were called by. I was "Whisky One." The helmet read "W001" "W" for WAC, "O" for officer, and some other symbols. So it was "Whisky 1, get on the tower," and so on. That's how the jump sergeants kept track of how well you did. When a person was dropped from the tower, it was important that the sergeant ser-geant down below, calling instructions, tell you which riser to pull to steer yourself away from the tower. So there were all of us down below, be-low, looking up, waiting for our turn, helping each other get hooked up. The sergeants would entertain en-tertain themselves by saying, "All Marines, give me 10. ... All blacks, give me 10. ... All officers, give me 10" 10 pushups, plus one for the airborne. And we were wearing wear-ing steel helmets, so we were looking up in the sky, then dropping down for pushups. It could be painful. I knew of no injuries to us women. Everyday, there were lines of guys washing out, but none of the women did. I think the men were ridden harder than we were. We were sometimes cited as volunteers, for example, for a blood drive, and then the men were asked to volunteer. Who's going to say no after "Child passenger safety is not just about babies and toddlers," tod-dlers," said Andrea Miller, UCHD injury prevention coordinator. "Too many kids move from a booster seat to a safety belt before they're big enough" Studies show that babies ride in safety restraints more than 90 percent of the time, but children ages four to seven ride in safety restraints less than 73 percent of the time. "That's an alarming difference," differ-ence," said Miller. "It shows that many parents and care givers are unaware of the importance im-portance of booster seats." Kids who have outgrown car seats (usually 40 pounds, but some car seats are rated for 60 pounds or more) are safest saf-est and most comfortable on a I -A 1 all the women have volunteered? volun-teered? We women were overtrained, over-trained, though we were never nev-er given an explanation for it. I think the airborne didn't want one of us to get hurt, because that would" be bad publicity for our experimental group. The guys had to jump from the tower twice; we had to do it five times. And we had to do other things several more times than the guys did. The third week was jump week, and I made five actual jumps at about 1,250 feet. I was the first person at the airplane doorway, so I was standing there quite a while, looking down and thinking, "We don't have a lot of time to get our parachutes open. The ground is a lot closer than I thought it was going to be." We were told to count to four, then look up and make sure the parachute had opened. If it hadn't, then you pulled your reserve chute. The landing is the hard part. That's where you can get hurt. But it was all a good experience, a lot of fun. Next week: Irene goes on to parachute packing training. train-ing. i Some veterans may wish, on their own, to tape or digital record their memories of military service. These will be transcribed and archived. For instructions on how to do this, e-mail Don Norton, at donnortonbyu.edu. booster seat until they are four foot, nine inches tall and 80 to 100 pounds. Most kids reach this weight and height between the ages of eight and 12 years of age. To conduct your own Safety Belt Fit Test, have the child sit all the way back in the vehicle seat and ask yourself the following fol-lowing questions: I Does their knees bend over the front edge of the seat? Do their feet touch the floor? I Buckle the lap and shoulder shoul-der belts. Does the lap belt rest on their upper legs or thighs? 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