Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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us right then , I f elt fully confident about
being able to take care of mys elf out there in
that water.
White
We were well prepared in this area,
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McDivi tt
P~rachut e t raining.
I thought t hat the parachute
training that we had was good.
I thought that
t he parachute training into the water wit h
pressure suits on was by far the best t hat we
had. It was the most realistic and it was the
kind of training that we would need during
actual flight .
White
And I recommend highly that all crews do this
and they go in suits as close to the same kind of con­
dition that you 're going to plop down in that water
with, and go through the full inflation and not
skimp on a thing.
McDivitt
You get all tangled up in a parachute just the
way you're going to get all tangled up in the
parachute when-­
White
That's right .
Inflate the life rafts and inflate
the Mae Wests and inflate the whole works every
time.
And if we don ' t have enough life rafts