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Eastern Washington University EWU Digital Commons Smokejumper and Static Line Magazines University Archives & Special Collections 10-1-2001 Smokejumper Magazine, October 2001 National Smokejumper Association Charlie Palmer Charlie Roos Ron Thoreson Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.ewu.edu/smokejumper_mag Recommended Citation National Smokejumper Association; Palmer, Charlie; Roos, Charlie; and Thoreson, Ron, "Smokejumper Magazine, October 2001" (2001). Smokejumper and Static Line Magazines. 33. https://dc.ewu.edu/smokejumper_mag/33 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives & Special Collections at EWU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Smokejumper and Static Line Magazines by an authorized administrator of EWU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The National Smokejumper Quarterly Magazine SmokejumperAssociation October 2001 Inside This Issue: An Interview with John Maclean .................................................................11 The Uranium Jump .....................................................................................26 Remembering a Fallen Friend ......................................................................43 Check the NSA Web site 1 www.smokejumpers.com CONTENTS Observations from the Ad Shack .................. 2 Observations Election Results ........................................... 2 My Brush with History/CPS 103 Jumpers ..... 3 NSA Members—Save This Information ........ 3 from the Ad Shack My Highest Jump and the Hospitality of the Silver Tip Ranch ........................ 5 Sounding Off from the Editor ....................... 8 Smokejumper magazine. A Commitment to Art Jukkala ...................... 9 At our June board meeting, “Army Brat” Commands Active Legion Post .................................................. 10 Fred Rohrbach and others An Interview with John Maclean, author suggested that the NSA should of Fire on the Mountain .................. 11 Down Side ................................................. 13 not wait five years to host The Night Pierce Burned ............................ 17 another reunion. None of us are Idaho City Jumps the Fires of Hell ............. 18 Is There Life After Smokejumping? ............ 19 getting any younger and, besides, Lois Stover ... Memories ............................ 20 we all seem to enjoy these Checking the Canopy .................................. 21 reunions. Our last reunion in Remembering My Last Season .................... 22 Historical Evidence Concerning Wag Redding went over with a bang, Dodge’s Escape Fire .......................... 25 and lots of jumpers asked when The Uranium Jump .................................... 26 Touching All Bases ..................................... 29 and where the next one will be Who Packed Your Parachute? ..................... 34 held. In response to these com- Smokejumper milestones .......................... 34 ments, your board of directors Items from the Fire Pack ........................... 35 Member Profile ......................................... 36 by Larry Lufkin agreed to hold NSA reunions as James T. Hain ............................................. 36 (Cave Junction ’63) often as possible. Ten Standard Firefighting Orders .............. 37 Featured Life Member ................................ 38 PRESIDENT Past reunions have been held H. W. “Skip” Stratton .................................. 38 A MAJOR ORDER OF BUSINESS at the in Missoula, Boise, and Redding Featured Life Member ................................ 38 June 2001 NSA board meeting because these were the only Robert A. “Bob” Walker ............................. 38 Odds and Ends ........................................... 39 was setting the date for our next jump-base sites that had facilities Mouse Remembered .................................. 41 NSA smokejumper reunion. large enough for our group. Our Reunion Information ................................. 42 Off the List ................................................. 42 And, it seems these days that next reunion will be held in 2004 Fallen Friend ............................................. 43 more smokejumper groups are and we will be going back to A Star for David ......................................... 45 holding reunions. The West Missoula. Barry Hicks will chair Jump List, October 2001 ............................ 46 NSA Guest Book ......................................... 48 Yellowstone Smokejumpers just the reunion committee, with The One-Manner ........................................ 48 held their 50-year reunion. Cave Chuck Wildes assisting. We have Blast from the Past ..................................... 50 Letters ....................................................... 51 Junction and CPS-103 jumpers not set a final date yet but will will be hosting reunions in June publish that date when it has 2002. McCall jumpers will be been determined. holding their reunion in the After 2004, your board plans SMOKEJUMPER, ISSUE NO. 33, OCTOBER 2001 Smokejumper is published by: summer of 2003. to hold NSA reunions even more THE NATIONAL SMOKEJUMPER ASSOCIATION Because of the number and often, perhaps as often as every ISSN 1532-6160 two years. Start marking your The opinions of the writers are their own and popularity of these events, Chuck do not necessarily reflect those of the NSA. Sheley plans to include a reunion calendars for these coming events NSA e-mail: [email protected] schedule in each future issue of because we want to see as many NSA Web site: http://www.smokejumpers.com of you as possible. If you can, Managing Editor: Chuck Sheley 12345678901234567890123456789012123456 12345678901234567890123456789012123456 Copy Editors: Ed Booth, Melody Martenson 12345678901234567890123456789012123456 12345678901234567890123456789012123456 visit other groups and enjoy their 1234567890123456789012345678901212345Election Results 6 and Wendy Nichols 12345678901234567890123456789012123456 12345678901234567890123456789012123456 reunions. Editing: Ed Booth, Chris Sorenson, Melody 1234567890123456789012345678901212345The following were elected to a 6 12345678901234567890123456789012123456 12345678901234567890123456789012123456 Martinsen, Jim Budenholzer, Darren 1234567890123456789012345678901212345three year term in the recent elec- 6 12345678901234567890123456789012123456 Marshall 12345678901234567890123456789012123456 Deadline for articles, news 1234567890123456789012345678901212345tion for the NSA Board of Direc- 6 Profiles and Features: Roger Archibald, Jim 12345678901234567890123456789012123456 12345678901234567890123456789012123456 and features for the 1234567890123456789012345678901212345tors: Fred Cooper (North Cascades 6 Budenholzer, Ted Burgon, Carl Gidlund and 12345678901234567890123456789012123456 January issue of 1234567890123456789012345678901212345’62), Ted Burgon (Idaho City ’52), 6 Pic Littell 12345678901234567890123456789012123456 12345678901234567890123456789012123456 Smokejumper is October 15 Illustrators: McElderry Books, Nick Holmes, 1234567890123456789012345678901212345Neil Satterwhite (McCall ’65), and 6 12345678901234567890123456789012123456 Send all magazine communications to: 12345678901234567890123456789012123456 Chris Demarest, Ken Morris, Dan 1234567890123456789012345678901212345Dave Bennett (Missoula ’61). 6 Chuck Sheley 12345678901234567890123456789012123456 Veenendaal and Eric Rajala 12345678901234567890123456789012123456 1234567890123456789012345678901212345Thanks to all of you who took 6 10 Judy Ln. Layout/Printing: Larry S. Jackson, Heidelberg 12345678901234567890123456789012123456 12345678901234567890123456789012123456 Chico, CA 95926 1234567890123456789012345678901212345the time to participate in the elec- 6 Graphics, Chico, CA 12345678901234567890123456789012123456 (530) 893-0436 12345678901234567890123456789012123456 Cover photo: Courtesy of Mike McMillan/ 1234567890123456789012345678901212345tion process. 6 12345678901234567890123456789012123456 [email protected] spotfireimages.com 12345678901234567890123456789012123456 Check the NSA Web site 2 www.smokejumpers.com My Brush with History/CPS 103 Jumpers by Gregg Phifer (Missoula ’44) light fire season in 1942 enabled remaining jumpers to get through the year. By the spring of 1943 only five experienced jumpers were available. Regions 4 and 6 entered the program as the Forest Service selected those 60 men from 300 CPS volunteers. Cooley wrote about his discomfort of requiring the service of consci- entious objectors, but he testifies (page 52) that: “Undoubt- edly we would have had to discontinue the smokejumper project for the years 1943-45, if we had not had the services of the CPS men.” He continues: “We soon began receiving field reports that one jumper was equivalent to the typical eight-man crew after they walked to the fire.” Manpower shortages made it impossible to maintain all Forest Service lookouts during the war years. Patrolling Johnson Flying Service planes took up some of the slack. For three years those of us from CPS 103 became the primary fire fighting 1234567890123456789012345678901 The Eagle parachute’s opening shock sometimes caused a monentary 1234567890123456789012345678901 1234567890123456789012345678901 blackout. (Courtesy of Wally Henderson) Gregg Phifer (inset) 1945. 1234567890123456789012345678901 (Courtesy of Gregg Phifer) 123456789012345678901234567890NSA Members—Save This 1 1234567890123456789012345678901 123456789012345678901234567890Information

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