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What are the most important tasks for ground crew?
Anyone carries oxygen for eventual resuscication?

keep the beers cold,clean the place,make sure no one is sneaking arround,warn the jumpers if nessary,video the thing

above could warry i guess,but it kind of sums it up i guess

Ground crew need to be smart and heads up. They must be able to effectively handle a vehicle for quick effcient get aways and they must be able to keep cool when things are moving fast. They must able to handle a radio or cell phone in a crisis (not everyone can do that) and equally important, they must be able to keep quiet about the jump when they return to the D.Z. so as not to blab to the more reckless jumper who might other wise blow the sight.
Good ground crew is worth their weight in gold or at least worth the fines a jumper might pay if caught

Agreed! we just got a new gc / base hopeful in our crew. Went out last night at midnight to our local "A". Weather was supposed to be good. Turned out to be lighting and rain and just plain shitty. got one off anyway. GC never complained once , even when getting eaten alive by skeeters. (pants next time dude, pants!) Didn't even hesitate to say yes when asked to pull an all-nighter, despite having to be at work at 5:30 am . Totally heads-up and intuitive too. Even drowned us in our favorite alcohol. Welcome to our crew!!

We havn't had GC this motivated, ever!

Thanks Zet!

To the original question : Kevin summed it up perfectly.

edited to include relevance.

Thanks Bryan!
And thanks again for letting me tag along and help out. GC was fun! I really enjoyed seeing how it all goes down after hanging out the other week. Being sneaky was half the fun!
Glad I was a mischevious kid who had plenty of practice sneaking around at night. And yes, shorts and tall grass/biting bugs don't mix so it will be long pants all the way from here! Many lessons learned, great night!

The best ground crew I ever had was a girl named Stacy from CO. The jumps went fine except only one of us landed in the spot where the car was actually waiting. The first jumper made it but the last two of us took it too deep to make it that far . I had a 90 right and the last jumper had a 90 left forcing us both to land in different areas each on different sides of a parking garage. Three jumpers on three different sides of the building and all of us separated by a parking garage. Not good.
I thought so much for a quick getaway. I gathered up my canopy and made a run for it. About 30 seconds later, I heard the screeching of tires behind me. I turned around expecting to see the cops. Instead it was stacy driving that car like a bag man for the mob.
She skidded to a stop next to me and I dove in. With out hesitating, she spun the tires and took off. The last jumper was loose some where in the city.
Stacy did not give up. She made it around that building in about 15 seconds. We came around a corner and there was the last jumper, with his partially inflated canopy slung over his shoulder making a run for it. Stacy swerving this way and that blasted straight across 4 lanes of traffic to picked up the last guy. Honestly, the ride after landing was almost as exciting as the jump.
I'll never forget how focused and dedicated she was.
Stacy is the yard stick by which I measure all potential ground crew. She thought fast, acted fast and drove even faster. I have no doubt that she is the reason we all got away. Stacy will always be cool in my book.

Kudo's Stacy!!!

Joy

That was an awesome story. :)