Alabama!? I thought you were in Tennessee. Boy, I got that wrong. When I lived in Columbus/Ft. Benning, GA, I used to cross the Chattahoochee on occasion to Phenix City and other points of note. I recall going to Talladega to watch a NASCAR race once. One time, I had the opportunity to experience a STABO extraction/insertion. We wore a five point harness with a D-Ring on each shoulder. Four 100-foot lengths of ropes dropped from a UH-60 hovering overhead. The rope had a Y end with snap-links attached to our D Rings and then a safety line went through each of our harnesses, se we were all tied together. That way, if one person's rope broke, the other three would hold that person in place. We started on the Alabama side of the river, took off, flew around the Chattahoochee River, southern Ft. Benning and then back to where we started. It was pretty awesome. I can honestly say, I have flown several hundred feet in the air while not being inside an aircraft. :)