NVA Parachutes used by the BW?

[Gordon Craig]

Gentlemen,

There is a thread running on the DDR Sub Forum about NVA parachutes. The question has been ask "Did the BW ever issue and jump with NVA parachutes?" For example; the RS-9 or the RS-4. Can anyone answer this question for me?

Regards,

Gordon

[Proud Kraut]

Gordon, I don't know, if the Bw ISSUED NVA parachutes. Referring to the following website with very detailed informations about the NVA Fallschirmjäger in September 1990 - right before unification - 74 soldiers from 12 different western nations had the possibility to jump with NVA parachutes and earn NVA jump badges:

http://www.google.de/imgres?q=bundes...38,s:100,i:118

I'm sure some Bw Fallos were among them. Is that the kind of use you mentioned?

Lars

[Gordon Craig]

Lars,

Thanks for the link but that is not the type of use I was asking about. The question on the DDR Forum was if the ex NVA parachutes were actually used by BW Fallschirmjaeger.

Regards,

Gordon

[markus]

For whatever it is worth:

I did not use ex NVA parachutes during my stay at the LL/LTS in Altenstadt from March to April 1996.

Neither did I hear anything about NVA parachutes being used anywhere at the time with our Fallschirmjäger troops in Germany.

The whole NVA/DDR issue was still very much present, a lot of my fellow conscripts were from there, serving in Varel, Oldenburg (FJ Btl 313), but there was never any talk about using former NVA chutes.

We were issued AKM bayonets, NVA underwear and some other items coming from NVA stocks, but the use of chutes in that year at least was unheard of.

Cheers,
Markus