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  • initialism High Altitude, High Opening.

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Examples

  • You also need to know max glide rate for HAHO. .then get somebody OTHER THAN ME, to do the trig to determine just how far from the DZ selected you will have to be.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Gentlemen’s Club. 2010

  • Gotta be HAHO in order to give her enough time to scope things out and/or to get the best vector into her LZ - especially if it is going to be the top of a building.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Gentlemen’s Club. 2010

  • Not knowing NYC but having seen a couple of maps in my time a HAHO insertion would be plausible and look at the sports pitches on the east/lower east side.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Gentlemen’s Club. 2010

  • They insert them by having them jump off a commercial jetliner via a HAHO technique.

    Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil (2006) digitaldoc 2007

  • Many LRSU unit members are qualified in HALO/HAHO and combat diving skills.

    THE NEWS BLOG 2005

  • Eight years earlier, when he had participated in the exercise for the Secret Service, he and his men had conducted a HAHO jump out of the back of an Air Force C-141 StarLifter.

    Transfer of Power Vince Flynn 1999

  • Eight years earlier, when he had participated in the exercise for the Secret Service, he and his men had conducted a HAHO jump out of the back of an Air Force C-141 StarLifter.

    Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #1 Vince Flynn 1997

  • The weight was a problem in the thin air during HAHO — high altitude, high opening — jumps.

    Rogue Warrior Marcinko, Richard 1992

  • All the signs were there: fresh intelligence from NSA; a real-time scramble and loadout — and a 56-man mass HAHO night jump and ten-mile para-glide onto our objective, something no unit had ever accomplished before.

    Rogue Warrior Marcinko, Richard 1992

  • By the time I showed up, Gold Team had already resumed its HAHO training.

    Rogue Warrior Marcinko, Richard 1992

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