Craig Morgan

It was a badge of honor, so to speak.

Yeah.

My parents couldn't be there, and since I did that, Red King, who was the first enlisted man ever to jump out of an airplane, and Colonel Leonard B. Scott, who wrote the book about Vietnam, Charlie Mike, who was the commander of the airborne school, gave me my blood wings.

Yeah.

Even then when that happened, I thought, yeah, whatever the commander and some old guy gave me my wing.

And then you look back and go, my God, man, you know, you think about the first guy who ever jumped out of an airplane with a parachute gave me my blood wing.

Yeah, it's pretty cool.

I don't remember much.

I had a migraine so bad I couldn't see.

My eyes were closed for most of the jump.

Everybody says your first jump's a night jump no matter what time of day you do it.

There's static line jumps.

So you're basically following the guy in front of you, and then you step off the aircraft, and the wind blows your drawers up your ass, and then your parachute opens, and then you just fall to the ground.

Oh, my goodness.

Do what they call a dynamite PLL, parachute landing fall.

Land on the balls of your feet, calves, thighs, buttocks, and push-up muscle.

All five muscles.

So you basically just fall down and get back up, pick your shit up, and run.

Yeah.

No, I'm not cool.