When I was with the 82nd Airborne, the exact same thing happen to me, except my jump was at night. I prepared for a hard landing in the trees, and my feet barely touched the ground. Softest landing ever. LOL
Strange same thing happened to me in 85. Canadian Airborne we worked with 82 a lot it was at night jump I went straight up almost 1000 feet this is impossible I got really scared when is it gonna end I landed way a way from the drop zone peaceful dropped my kit and it set me down so gently.
***** I'm not sure it had anything to do with the pilot.. He threw the streamer out, ignored it, got the greenlight and just jumped. If he did his homework right, with the wind and possibly the plane being a bit off zone, he shouldnt have sent them.. Which he can do..It's one thing if only 1 or 2 land in the trees, it's completly different when 8+ land in the trees
His buddy didn’t notice if you look to the left of the the screen his other buddie said of fuck shit bc if you look to the left he was going down in the trees aswell
FTW AWESOME.....good work fella! Hat firmly in my hand. as soon as you jumped we could se you tugging just to try and get away from the trees.. whoever was your spotter should have been buying the beers that night for sure.
I just graduated Airborne in June, and we only jumped the T-10D once (the one you saw in the video). The other four drops we jumped the T-11, which is not much different, just a square version that falls a bit slower. The whole point of both of them though is to drop a paratrooper fast enough so that he is in the air the least amount of time (as to not take enemy fire from the ground, or air for that matter) but still land safely with a full combat load. All about quick insertion.
I like the T-10. I feel more harnessed. T-11 I feel like I'm holding on to nothing. I don't like the toggles. Who-Wa Airborne All The Way Bad-Asses 🪂🤘😜🇺🇸
Ram air parachutes are almost certain to collapse if they ran into each other, combine that with a pretty quick forward thrust that they generate and about 100-1000 troopers in a square mile. You'd have soldiers free falling to their deaths with nothing but a streamer above their heads. The parabolic chutes used in the video and by all low level static line jumpers will stay inflated in most collisions and provide easier simpler descents but at the cost of maneuverability.
FUNKER530. I noticed a lot of your videos are are taken around the third infantry division. My brother is currently serving with them, he's an MP with a bomb detection dog. Right now your videos are hitting close to home. Thank you.
What a great video! The look on your face when you couldn't believe you stood it up was priceless. Hope you get into sport jumping too. You would fit perfect.
Cause the aim of the drop is to have everybody gathered right after landing. That's why parachutes are not steerable. If so, everybody would be so spreaded around. There is tons of other reasons, but this one is the main. The plane drops soldiers at 65m/s with 1 to 1.5 seconds interval. So on the ground, theoricaly, distance between 2 soldiers should be routhly 65-80 meters
For your info Stacey, in the Canadian Forces, it's not the responsibility of the jumpmaster to spot the drop when jumping from a fast moving aircraft, it's the navigator's in the front of the plane.
@@jamszalay "Bro", if you're actually a jumper (and a JM) you should know it's the job of the crew on the Herc to communicate with the DZ controller and ensure the path of the aircraft will ensure that when the green light goes on, the stick will be dispatched with any wind drift resulting in the stick landing somewhere close to the center of the DZ. Not the JM. You should also know that when the JM is last in the stick and follows the last jumper he dispatches out the door, he doesn't stop, pause, and look out the door before exiting. Thanks for coming out, eh!
@@jamszalay Bro, you’re the, JM*** 🤦🏻♂️ first, you have no idea how to use proper spelling in YOUR sentence, AND, YOU’RE completely wrong with YOUR assessment! I know this was 10 years ago… I’m a bit late to the party in the comments, but, still.. you should know wtf YOU’RE talking about before posting anything! .. and you seriously need to know the difference between “your” and “you’re”… because to someone that can read properly.. it makes no sense! But luckily I have at least half a brain and can put together what you couldn’t 😂 you’re probably the type of guy that uses “there” and “to” for every situation.. quick English lesson? “Their” keys are right over “there”, oh, and the guys? “They’re” right over “there”.. I “too” need “to” grab “two” things from my house… 👍🏼
To elaborate on my last post, the navigator calculates the release point using a ballistic table, weight of jumpers, air speed, air temperature, altitude, type of parachutes used and programs the result of the calculations in the GPS. You may or may not know that the navigator is an officer and that officers are never wrong. So the only logic explanation to the off DZ drop is that the Drop Zone moved due to global warming...
Their goal is to get to the ground as quick as possible without getting too injured. These chutes allow for just that. An extremely fast descent while minimizing injury from the landing. A steerable chute would have them be airborne for much longer unless they went through extensive training which the military doesn't want to do. They just want to throw these guys out of a plane and have them be on the ground and fighting ASAP. Hope this helps!
He did not cast any curses, he merely uttered words that reflected exasperation and his realization that he was about to land in a forest of pointy trees instead of the cleared landing zone. Fortunately he managed to land unscathed and in a perfect standing position, instead of being impaled on a tree, or hitting heavy branches on the way down.
The main reason is because they are a lot cheaper. This jumps looked exactly like the training ones i've done in normal parachuting course. 1000 meters, instant opening (rope attached to a plane), and all this with a modern chute, so i dont think there is any difference.
I have no idea as I have no training what-so-ever in parachuting. I would however believe it to be both cheaper aswell as easier to learn, not to mention the fact an injured trooper would most certainly die if he was rendered unable to control his glide chute.
Something similar happened to me. You're lucky you didn't land in that logging trail. Funny how everyone seems to be heading in the trees too. You can hear the closest guy yelling "WTF?"
When you jump out of a plane in a fashion like this you rely on the pilot to tell you when it's safe to jump. They can not steer their parachutes so they have to jump when they're safely able to reach their designated spot. They're supposed to land in the treeless area but due to pilot error they didn't. He did NOT almost die but landing in a tree can result in serious injury.
I always wondered why paratroopers don't use modern steerable chutes? Can they not be deployed instantly and used for low altitude drops like these "old school" chutes in the video? (sorry for lack of proper terminolgy)
LMAO! That was epic! He was just able to touch the ground like a string puppet! Im glad everything worked out! That could have been REALLY bad plus he would have a long wait for help because the rest of his group was WAY AHEAD of him!
From what I've understood, there are many reasons they don't use ram-air-type parachutes for the "regular" soldiers: 1. the T-11 parachute is much cheaper. 2. T-11 is very easy to pack. 3. soldiers usually carry so much gear and equipements with them and they need such a big parachute. 4. normally they land in a clear area so I think this tree landing was a miscalculation.
The main reason the drop speed is intentionally fast and hard is to avoid enemy fire. With regular parachutes they'd be sitting ducks getting shot out of the sky.
You couldn't have gotten more of that wrong if you'd tried. Beginning with the fact those are T10 parachutes. Second, in a combat jump, the last thing that you would need would be a battalion of paratroopers, all flying around in freefall parachutes. Flying in all directions, instead of all drifting in the same direction according to the winds aloft. Third, static line parachutes take several dozen steps for the packers and riggers to pack, and they require the packing tables to do it. They don't get packed like a bag of dirty laundry like a free fall parachute. Well, that's a start anyways.
because less control of the chute means that you have soldiers dropped in a straight line and not all over the battlefield so it's not a disorganised mess when everyone lands
Why is it that almost every single comment I read, it’s horribly, misspelled, improper, grammar, punctuation, the whole damn nine yards?! How does one mean to spell “have” but spell out “has” and not even notice..? 🤦🏻♂️
check the spot, especially jumping a roundy. you got no penetration after opening. i've never jumped a roundy. how much airspeed can you get on one like that? i've jumped the perinea on one once but didn't get a very long flight
Let's start out with "What is the job of the navigator, sitting up front with the pilots as the aircraft lines up with DZ? Who decides it's the right time to turn on the green light to dispatch the stick(s)"? Then let's move on to "What is a DZ Controller? What is his job, who does he communicate with, and what information does he pass to those he's talking with"?
This was a hollywood jump, if it would have been a combat load drop, he would have had a weapon strapped to his left leg (in a nice big, flat, wind catching weapons case), and an assault pack in between his legs. That doesn't exactly make it very easy to sky dive without tumbling, or control a steerable parachute. Trust me the prop-blast alone on that weapons case as you exit makes you tumble enough, especially from a C-17 lol
You think we determine wind drift from the back of a windowless aircraft going 230 knots with a fucking streamer? Seriously? That would be like judging your driving speed by spitting out the window while your eyes are closed. No son, the Herc drivers determine the drift, in this case really shittily. Want to know what he tossed out the window? It was his dip. ..Can't smoke in the plane. Don't want that shit in your mouth when you hit the relative wind...shit goes everywhere.
WTF... "coast over the trees"???? Give us your best guess at how much horizontal distance a CT-10 parachute can cover when the jumper is dispatched at 800 - 1200' AGL.
@@AirborneMOC031holy shit.. you must be handicapped or something.. (mentally) uhhhh it’s a joke.. treating it like he’s playing a video game.. dumb MF 🤦🏻♂️😂
+jonceballos All the other paratroopers were drifting towards the open grass area. He was the last out so he caught an errant wind that was pushing him towards the tall pine trees. All paratroopers dread landing in tall forests. The impacts can break bones or you can be impaled on a tree top. It's unpredictable and in many instances, results in injuries or death. There are many tales of paratroopers in WW2 getting killed when their parachutes landed in trees. Another fate is that he could get stuck at a high level and have to cut himself out and then what? Some times you're 20-30 feet up in the air. He yelled when he realized that the wind was pushing him towards a dangerous area. WOW is that guy lucky or what? A soft landing AND he lands on his own two feet without even a bounce!!! He has guardian angels looking over him. :D
This was a Hollywood jump. A tactical jump weapons are rigged with rucks and battle rattle, strapped to body. About 50' above the ground, ruck, gear, and weapons are released to hang below the jumper on an 18' lowering line. The "thump" of your kit hitting the ground tells you you're about to arrive (really helps on pitch dark night jumps).
I laughed so hard when he landed safely and startet to laugh cause he was so relieved XD
IM ALIVE! xD
When I was with the 82nd Airborne, the exact same thing happen to me, except my jump was at night. I prepared for a hard landing in the trees, and my feet barely touched the ground. Softest landing ever. LOL
+Darnell Jordan Who were you with? 2 Panther here...
+aaron perkins 2/505th
Strange same thing happened to me in 85. Canadian Airborne we worked with 82 a lot it was at night jump I went straight up almost 1000 feet this is impossible I got really scared when is it gonna end I landed way a way from the drop zone peaceful dropped my kit and it set me down so gently.
With the 18th Air Corps, 50th Sig down the street from ya. Way to go Airborne 🪂. All the way with the tree landing! 🏆
1:41 his buddies notice
plot twist: That was actually another paratrooper falling into the forest xD
***** I'm not sure it had anything to do with the pilot.. He threw the streamer out, ignored it, got the greenlight and just jumped. If he did his homework right, with the wind and possibly the plane being a bit off zone, he shouldnt have sent them.. Which he can do..It's one thing if only 1 or 2 land in the trees, it's completly different when 8+ land in the trees
His buddy didn’t notice if you look to the left of the the screen his other buddie said of fuck shit bc if you look to the left he was going down in the trees aswell
@@idonotwastenamesLol... All of them went into the forest.
Been there...not the best feeling goin into trees but the lucky standup landing was nice
Cleavland voice: NO NO NO NO NO NO NOOOOOOO......o, alright then.
*Read in Cleavland's Voice*
not too sure what went wrong, but that was amazing! i thought they were kidding you too..
That plane was over a forest they shoulf have landed in the open area
@@Invalid06 Thanks, Ken.
Million dollar smile. Been there
Pretty sure it's the pilot's job to not miss the km wide dropzone, not the guy in the back with a 3 foot door to look out of.
Nice! I was fully expecting him to land in a tree 30 foot up and get a tree up the butt. Pleasantly surprised, he mannaged to fall in the prefect spot
FTW AWESOME.....good work fella! Hat firmly in my hand. as soon as you jumped we could se you tugging just to try and get away from the trees.. whoever was your spotter should have been buying the beers that night for sure.
The safe and efficient dispatch of paratroops and their equipment. Being lined up to the Dropzone is the air crew's job.
I just graduated Airborne in June, and we only jumped the T-10D once (the one you saw in the video). The other four drops we jumped the T-11, which is not much different, just a square version that falls a bit slower. The whole point of both of them though is to drop a paratrooper fast enough so that he is in the air the least amount of time (as to not take enemy fire from the ground, or air for that matter) but still land safely with a full combat load. All about quick insertion.
I like the T-10. I feel more harnessed. T-11 I feel like I'm holding on to nothing.
I don't like the toggles. Who-Wa Airborne All The Way Bad-Asses 🪂🤘😜🇺🇸
Lol quick insertion.
“Gotta be fucking kidding me”
Seconds later lands on feet completely fine
Ram air parachutes are almost certain to collapse if they ran into each other, combine that with a pretty quick forward thrust that they generate and about 100-1000 troopers in a square mile. You'd have soldiers free falling to their deaths with nothing but a streamer above their heads. The parabolic chutes used in the video and by all low level static line jumpers will stay inflated in most collisions and provide easier simpler descents but at the cost of maneuverability.
You got to love that he knows that he's going to hit the tree line and when he does, he lands on his his feet like ''WOW I DIDN'T HIT ONE TREE."
FUNKER530. I noticed a lot of your videos are are taken around the third infantry division. My brother is currently serving with them, he's an MP with a bomb detection dog. Right now your videos are hitting close to home. Thank you.
"I might actually die" to "Better than I could have hoped for"
Surprised that you made it to the bottom without getting hurt too badly I wonder how many people got stuck in the trees
Fucken miracle! 18th Air Corps Ft.Bragg
His reaction when he landed. Gold
1:40 you can hear another paratooper across the way yelling "bro what the fuck"
I just got to laugh with you, if that was me I would have done the same. Good job and glad your alright. :)
Soldier: I'm dead!
when landing, hah i'm still alive!
What a great video! The look on your face when you couldn't believe you stood it up was priceless. Hope you get into sport jumping too. You would fit perfect.
damn you know you facts. Nice to see some mature and smart people on TH-cam that actually know something. Keep up the good work :)
Rosie, that was awesome Brother. Stay solid!
I admit: I closed my eyes at 5 seconds before landfall lol. That looks like a bad time if it went wrong
That is one hell of a video!!! From 3RCR, glad you're ok!!
Cause the aim of the drop is to have everybody gathered right after landing. That's why parachutes are not steerable. If so, everybody would be so spreaded around. There is tons of other reasons, but this one is the main.
The plane drops soldiers at 65m/s with 1 to 1.5 seconds interval. So on the ground, theoricaly, distance between 2 soldiers should be routhly 65-80 meters
For your info Stacey, in the Canadian Forces, it's not the responsibility of the jumpmaster to spot the drop when jumping from a fast moving aircraft, it's the navigator's in the front of the plane.
Dude I was just doing some jumps in Twin Falls, Idaho and cats here were talking about this video. Your famous!!
His famous what?… OHHHH you mean “you’re” famous… gotcha.. 🤦🏻♂️
1:41 "OH WHAT THE FUCK!" lmao
Best laugh ever.
YOU'VE GOTTA BE FUCKIN KIDDING ME!! Bro your the JM...
He's dependent on the pilot (green light)?
He can choose not to send them if the landing area is not clear or if the plane is off zone.
@@jamszalay "Bro", if you're actually a jumper (and a JM) you should know it's the job of the crew on the Herc to communicate with the DZ controller and ensure the path of the aircraft will ensure that when the green light goes on, the stick will be dispatched with any wind drift resulting in the stick landing somewhere close to the center of the DZ.
Not the JM.
You should also know that when the JM is last in the stick and follows the last jumper he dispatches out the door, he doesn't stop, pause, and look out the door before exiting.
Thanks for coming out, eh!
@@jamszalay Bro, you’re the, JM*** 🤦🏻♂️ first, you have no idea how to use proper spelling in YOUR sentence, AND, YOU’RE completely wrong with YOUR assessment! I know this was 10 years ago… I’m a bit late to the party in the comments, but, still.. you should know wtf YOU’RE talking about before posting anything! .. and you seriously need to know the difference between “your” and “you’re”… because to someone that can read properly.. it makes no sense! But luckily I have at least half a brain and can put together what you couldn’t 😂 you’re probably the type of guy that uses “there” and “to” for every situation.. quick English lesson? “Their” keys are right over “there”, oh, and the guys? “They’re” right over “there”.. I “too” need “to” grab “two” things from my house… 👍🏼
To elaborate on my last post, the navigator calculates the release point using a ballistic table, weight of jumpers, air speed, air temperature, altitude, type of parachutes used and programs the result of the calculations in the GPS. You may or may not know that the navigator is an officer and that officers are never wrong. So the only logic explanation to the off DZ drop is that the Drop Zone moved due to global warming...
Just so you know... nine years later, you just won the Internet for today with that response.
Probably has to be the best video I've ever seen in my life
An extreme way to clear piles, the sharp end of a pine tree up the khyber pass would bring a tear to a glass eye
Their goal is to get to the ground as quick as possible without getting too injured. These chutes allow for just that. An extremely fast descent while minimizing injury from the landing. A steerable chute would have them be airborne for much longer unless they went through extensive training which the military doesn't want to do. They just want to throw these guys out of a plane and have them be on the ground and fighting ASAP. Hope this helps!
To this day I still love the distant "Oh what the fuck?!"
Did that same thing at Ft Richardson once. High pucker factor.
He did not cast any curses, he merely uttered words that reflected exasperation and his realization that he was about to land in a forest of pointy trees instead of the cleared landing zone. Fortunately he managed to land unscathed and in a perfect standing position, instead of being impaled on a tree, or hitting heavy branches on the way down.
Thats awesome, landed right on a grassy knoll.
That UCP actually looked green for a moment i kinda liked it tbh
Funniest bit is at 1:50 when you can see that they're ALL going into the trees haha!
Rip! Lol
Our worst nightmare on a jump! Who-Wa Airborne All The Way Bad-Asses 🪂🤘😜🇺🇸
Training for that also takes longer too. We have square chutes, that is just the next stage of training.
The main reason is because they are a lot cheaper. This jumps looked exactly like the training ones i've done in normal parachuting course. 1000 meters, instant opening (rope attached to a plane), and all this with a modern chute, so i dont think there is any difference.
All things considered dude, you lucked out on that one
I have no idea as I have no training what-so-ever in parachuting. I would however believe it to be both cheaper aswell as easier to learn, not to mention the fact an injured trooper would most certainly die if he was rendered unable to control his glide chute.
Something similar happened to me. You're lucky you didn't land in that logging trail. Funny how everyone seems to be heading in the trees too. You can hear the closest guy yelling "WTF?"
what was that thing he threw out the door in the beginning?
Probably a barf-bag. I used to exit with mine and drop it when under canopy. (I got sick alot)
oh jeez that must have been awful
When you jump out of a plane in a fashion like this you rely on the pilot to tell you when it's safe to jump. They can not steer their parachutes so they have to jump when they're safely able to reach their designated spot. They're supposed to land in the treeless area but due to pilot error they didn't. He did NOT almost die but landing in a tree can result in serious injury.
I always wondered why paratroopers don't use modern steerable chutes? Can they not be deployed instantly and used for low altitude drops like these "old school" chutes in the video? (sorry for lack of proper terminolgy)
LMAO! That was epic! He was just able to touch the ground like a string puppet! Im glad everything worked out! That could have been REALLY bad plus he would have a long wait for help because the rest of his group was WAY AHEAD of him!
I landed in a tree once! It was AWESOME! I had to climb down my reserve.
It's actually smaller than what other armies use for chutes.
The words you are looking for are : Static line and Jumpmaster
And we airborne soldiers jump from 150m to 400m. Not 1000.
RESPECT! I'm glad that the guy is ok. Amazing video.
From what I've understood, there are many reasons they don't use ram-air-type parachutes for the "regular" soldiers: 1. the T-11 parachute is much cheaper. 2. T-11 is very easy to pack. 3. soldiers usually carry so much gear and equipements with them and they need such a big parachute. 4. normally they land in a clear area so I think this tree landing was a miscalculation.
The main reason the drop speed is intentionally fast and hard is to avoid enemy fire. With regular parachutes they'd be sitting ducks getting shot out of the sky.
You couldn't have gotten more of that wrong if you'd tried. Beginning with the fact those are T10 parachutes.
Second, in a combat jump, the last thing that you would need would be a battalion of paratroopers, all flying around in freefall parachutes. Flying in all directions, instead of all drifting in the same direction according to the winds aloft.
Third, static line parachutes take several dozen steps for the packers and riggers to pack, and they require the packing tables to do it. They don't get packed like a bag of dirty laundry like a free fall parachute.
Well, that's a start anyways.
Fu*& yeah.. ROSI thats awesome! Glad you did get hurt brother...Hope everyone else is safe too.
But he didn’t*** get hurt ;) spell check, budz
I am unbelievably happy for this guy XD
my brother in the 82nd landed in a tree and stuck there for 2hrs he said he climb down head first..his last parachute jump too...
that's one heck of a lucky bastard :D
Is it just me, or was that a surprisingly soft landing ? I know i'd expect to break some bones there.
because less control of the chute means that you have soldiers dropped in a straight line and not all over the battlefield so it's not a disorganised mess when everyone lands
C-17 Hollywood! Sometimes you can't slip away I guess, glad it wasn't too bad
Rough terrain jumps are the worst, we used to jump them purposely on Bragg...Grenada DZ...
We'll see you soon enough Mike, has a good one out there!
Why is it that almost every single comment I read, it’s horribly, misspelled, improper, grammar, punctuation, the whole damn nine yards?! How does one mean to spell “have” but spell out “has” and not even notice..? 🤦🏻♂️
check the spot, especially jumping a roundy. you got no penetration after opening. i've never jumped a roundy. how much airspeed can you get on one like that? i've jumped the perinea on one once but didn't get a very long flight
Well, what IS the jumpmaster's job, if it's not to make sure that the stick isn't going to come down in wires, trees, or water?
Let's start out with "What is the job of the navigator, sitting up front with the pilots as the aircraft lines up with DZ? Who decides it's the right time to turn on the green light to dispatch the stick(s)"?
Then let's move on to "What is a DZ Controller? What is his job, who does he communicate with, and what information does he pass to those he's talking with"?
Cracked me up!
I would like to use this footage in a documentary. What is the best way to reach you? Cheers and thanks
This was a hollywood jump, if it would have been a combat load drop, he would have had a weapon strapped to his left leg (in a nice big, flat, wind catching weapons case), and an assault pack in between his legs. That doesn't exactly make it very easy to sky dive without tumbling, or control a steerable parachute. Trust me the prop-blast alone on that weapons case as you exit makes you tumble enough, especially from a C-17 lol
Does anybody know what company in 3 PPCLI does Paratrooping?
What did they throw out the window in the beginning?
is the speed he is "landing" at normal or is the trees compromising his parachute on final descent?
Ummm I think you missed the DZ. How many other people ended up in the woods?
What is he throwing out at 0:19?
That's what I wondered. Looks like litter
It's a streamer used to determine wind drift direction. It's was apparently ignored.
You think we determine wind drift from the back of a windowless aircraft going 230 knots with a fucking streamer? Seriously? That would be like judging your driving speed by spitting out the window while your eyes are closed. No son, the Herc drivers determine the drift, in this case really shittily. Want to know what he tossed out the window? It was his dip. ..Can't smoke in the plane. Don't want that shit in your mouth when you hit the relative wind...shit goes everywhere.
Why did the guy throw something out at the very start? Make sure he has his bearings?
That was a puke bag
What kind of camera was was used recording this
Should have held LT, RT and stick back to coast over the trees.
LOL
WTF... "coast over the trees"????
Give us your best guess at how much horizontal distance a CT-10 parachute can cover when the jumper is dispatched at 800 - 1200' AGL.
@@AirborneMOC031holy shit.. you must be handicapped or something.. (mentally) uhhhh it’s a joke.. treating it like he’s playing a video game.. dumb MF 🤦🏻♂️😂
Why would they even use that type of parachute anymore?
1:42 "Oh. What the fuck!"
WTF indeed.
Why did he say you gotta be kidding me? What went wrong? Just because he wasn't over the clearing? None of theme appeared to be
Landing in trees is usually nasty. The fact that he's not the only one doesn't change that he's about to land badly (at least he thought he will).
+jonceballos All the other paratroopers were drifting towards the open grass area. He was the last out so he caught an errant wind that was pushing him towards the tall pine trees. All paratroopers dread landing in tall forests. The impacts can break bones or you can be impaled on a tree top. It's unpredictable and in many instances, results in injuries or death. There are many tales of paratroopers in WW2 getting killed when their parachutes landed in trees. Another fate is that he could get stuck at a high level and have to cut himself out and then what? Some times you're 20-30 feet up in the air. He yelled when he realized that the wind was pushing him towards a dangerous area. WOW is that guy lucky or what? A soft landing AND he lands on his own two feet without even a bounce!!! He has guardian angels looking over him. :D
i really shared his emotions ... first i was like :"oh gawd thats not good"
and then i also laughed xD he forgot to roll btw xD
blame the air force
And the blind jump master it was broad daylight did even look
Now you see why trees are very important on earth he'
Almost famous last words.
I have a question how do soldiers hold their guns when their holding on their parachute?
This was a Hollywood jump. A tactical jump weapons are rigged with rucks and battle rattle, strapped to body. About 50' above the ground, ruck, gear, and weapons are released to hang below the jumper on an 18' lowering line. The "thump" of your kit hitting the ground tells you you're about to arrive (really helps on pitch dark night jumps).
I think my first words after trying to slip back to the dropzone would have been "FUCKING AIR FORCE" lol
Why dont airborne troops have steerable parachutes like skydivers have?
Sorry but was he scared/angry cuz he is landing in trees and it could be painful or because the parachute could rip or something else??
He was concerned about getting hurt/hung up. Both are inconvenient.
Ric Szalay Or a tree up the ass, that would be my first concern XD
That have me an adrenaline rush just watching it
Amazing, love the expression lol
could have been a smoke grenade, for reference of wind speed and direction, or a can of spam
Man, THAT was an interesting video haha.
nice landing
Looks like a lot of the other guys might've landed in the trees as well
Awesome!
I'd be flinchin' just a bit.
Geez,what a rush! Now I want to jump another 50 times!