Spot on.
I remember a night jump at Frog Hill, on STANTA which to the non UKMilitary Thetford Military training area where they filmed DAD'S ARMY.
You know sometimes you are glad it happened to someone else, well this was one such night drop of 3 Herc's in line with 180 jumpers, full kit not clean fatique.
It was a moonlit night, and not a sound in the air once the Herc's had left the immediate area.
It was a tactical DZ and drop from 800 feet, (normally 1000) to test Company RV's and rally points for the Battalion for its role as the quick reaction force (QRF) use in the future.
As the last lads came in, there was an almighty shrill and screaming that I have never heard anything like it since to this day, that filled the air.
One of the lads had managed to drop his container but had landed on a solitary concrete wire post not picked up by the RAF ground team which was overgrown, which had parted his legs on contact, but luckily his container had pulled him a fraction to one side, the post went right through his leg missing his vital parts, but it took two blankets and a lot of pressure to stem the bleeding. Had he hit it centrally, it would have gone right up into his chest taking his vitals with it. Nasty business this MILSPEC parachuting lark, and you ask whether we had bad backs
Anyway, thats my sales pitch for anybody considering Military parachuting.......Don't do it, join the Navy![]()