1935 Response from the US Forest Service to a proposal to parachute firefighters into forest fires-

“I will remind you that you wrote some time ago about J.B. Bruce’s scheme of dropping men from airplanes for firefighting. I am willing to take a chance on most any kind of a proposition that promises better action on fires, but I hesitate very much to go into the kind of thing that Bruce proposes. In the first place, the best information I can get from experienced fliers is that all parachute jumpers are more or less crazy - just a little bit unbalanced, otherwise they wouldn’t be engaged in such a hazardous undertaking.”
- Regional Forester Evan Kelley, July 1935

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