EVER WANTED TO SEE WHAT ITS LIKE TO JUMP PARA STYLE?

[Gil Boyd]

The 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment under French canopies in Corsica during training with their partners of 2e Regiment Etranger de Parachutistes

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[30Three]

The ground seems to come up real quick at the end! I take my hat off to anyone that can do that for a living.
I don't mind flying, as long as there's a landing at the other end!

[browningautorifle]

The ground seems to come up real quick at the end!

Jump off a twelve foot high wall and keep your feet and knees together, that's what the landing can be like. Can't match the sickening drop from a balloon basket, takes the parachute a bit longer to deploy as there's no slipstream to catch and open it. Then...night drops...wind...rolling terrain...

[Gil Boyd]

.....................and eventually you need both hips and knees replaced, just ready for the next war

[Skip]

That canopy sure has changed when I jumped with the old T-10.

[browningautorifle]

the old T-10.

You got that right!

[Sarge]

BFD!
I've done that about 70 times in the US, Mexico and Viet Nam.
The fun jumps are done from about 800' with full combat gear.
Sarge

[browningautorifle]

The fun jumps are done from about 800' with full combat gear.

At night...and the anemometer looks like a pinwheel...but you go anyway.

[Sarge]

Yep, I've got a couple of them do it in the dark jumps.
You can usually see the ground just before you hit it - depending on how bright the stars are.
Sarge

[browningautorifle]

You can usually see the ground just before you hit it

Sometimes you can see your shadow coming down with you...