re: #184 Obdicut

Yeah, sorry about that. I was loose about saying ‘logging’ when what I meant was commercial logging, and I didn’t account for regional variations.

A friend of mine is a smoke jumper. Well, he just retired from field service, but still uses every excuse he can to get back in there. He’s some sort of ‘inspector’ now, but he’s got the use of a truck so he tends to do his inspecting right up at the fire line. He survived a fire actually burning over him by doing a pre-burn and using that insulated blanket shelter thingy.

Craziest bastard I know, but damn good at his job. He jumped into more than a hundred fires in his career. Macho as all get out.

Also gay as the day is long, in that ultra-butch way.

Those guys are heroes. Crazy, yes. But in a heroic way. Besides the very real possibility of getting killed, they jump out of a plane with no plans of returning to civilization for two weeks. And if they jump into wilderness, they come out on foot or on a mule.