Bad Jump TRAINING = Bad jump EXITS

I switched soundtrack to up-beat Big Joe Turner instead of the original mocking, ghetto music.

After watching this video, compare to: how Brits Jump Low Best:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of4E-2fSeWs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAjNop4uyao

Watch this jump sequence from an USAF C-17 Globemaster III in silence so you can focus all your attention on what's happening. U.S. Army jump procedures that say you can exit an aircraft with any foot/leg leading are WRONG and leads to sloppy indecision at the door where the slipstream can hit the rucksack and jumper slamming him against the trailing edge of the door and a spinning exits because the jumper did not make his body/rucksack into a stiff shape and project this minimal drag shape into the rushing air cleanly. If you are stutter stepping due to undefined footwork procedures its the Army's fault for creating such a dangerous vaccum.

http://www.combatreform.org/fm3_21x220.pdf

Moreover, if you exit stepping off with your foot/leg nearest the slipstream your body will be turned nicely 90 degrees so you face aft for a smooth exit and parachute deployment if you snap into a tight body position knife edge. This should be the goal and the procedure. Step off with the other leg and you will be spun around, which can be ok IF you snap into a tight body position but never as good as if you lead with the foot/leg closest to the slipstream. If you don't snap into a tight body position and lead with the wrong foot/leg you could tumble into your deploying risers and parachute lines and DIE because neither your main nor your reserve can deploy through the tangle. This has already happened wayyyy too many times. Paratroopers need to know what the "slipstream" is so we can stop this non-sense of trying to work around vocabulary ignorance with things like "direction of flight" this or that. Slipstream---the direction the air is rushing past the door.
Boundary LINES should be painted on C-130/C-17 jump floors showing a 45 degree angle (or whatever angle that's currently in effect)--think we can do this without Boeing/Lockheed charging several million dollars? The WW2 can-do generation would DIY to all its airplanes in a day if it would save lives and improve combat power on the drop zone below (hint, hint).

The confusion leading to the door is our own damn fault for half-assed mock door jump school and prejump training wearing nothing and play acting through some laundry lines that are not even an aircraft fuselage. YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR. This must stop. Other, smarter airbornes take ACTUAL AIRCRAFT FUSELAGES (or actual parked aircraft) and have their paras put on the exact parachutes (they can be dummies or designated non-jumping real ones) and equipment and then go through the movement and exit through the door in the EXACT same crowded and overloaded fashion as the actual jump. Its called training as you would fight. Being realistic. Common sense. Then, as the paras exit the realistic door on the actual aircraft or actual aircraft fuselage they snap into a tight body position after exiting with the foot/leg nearest the notional or real (get wind generators) slipstream into sand pits--- which could even be moving to insure jumper separation. If the sand pit is fixed, have the jumpers hop away in tight body position doing their 4 second count. Graders watch and make jumpers redo it until its all done right. Have a videocamera on a tripod record the mock door performances of everyone 'til satisfaction. Take the gear off and have a water/snack break and watch the video together as a high school/college/professional football team watches game film for something far less dangerous---that puts us to shame. Then put the actual parachutes and gear on for the actual jump. Jump injuries and deaths will drastically reduce because we "raised our game".

http://www.combatreform.org/jumpschoolaar.htm
http://www.combatreform.org/jumpprocedures.htm

P.S. yes, we presented these and other facts and improvements and got the victimology/arrogance treatment by Army Safety (Status Quo Preservation) Center and Airborne School who attack the messenger with the more-jumps-than-thou crap as if that's going to somehow change the laws of physics? (NOT) or refuse to more realistically train jump school students so the "Blood on the Risers" mystique fear factor is encouraged so some "legs" can be washed out of the course to make snobs feel smugly superior---nevermind that it costs a few alleged "pussies" to leave the course in a flag-draped coffin. Its always the fault of the individual says the arrogant asshole; real leaders like General Gavin wouldn't put up with setting his Paratroopers up for failure, they stack-the-deck so "Murphy" and Newton's Laws ADD TO the power of LGOPs instead of wasting away individual strength on self-created obstacles.

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[Akatsukiguy123]

anyone who doesnt believe this should listen to blood on the risers. its a song written about a failing chute athough his exit was good. so dosalt yes there is a massive risk.

[dynmicpara]

BLOOD ON THE RISERS IS DEFEATIST BS! The whole point of these videos and our work is to IMPROVE AIRBORNE WARFARE not give-in to fatalism bred by snobbery and technocomplacency.

[ShiekUrBooty]

Thank god I learned how to jump out of a plane with a bunch of alcoholic dope smoking civilians.

[zachisaac357]

that guy who lost his helmet must have benn like" Oh man, i just lost my helmet. My CO is gonna kill me."

[avago361]

@dynmicpara nice one mate I totaly aggree..quality training breeds quality troops..gotta say tho theres some great rivit inspections going on here..

AIRBORNE EASY!!

[oeyesea]

How many of those guys thought, "I just jumped out of a perfectly good airplane"

[soldierkev03]

OH MY GOSH THAT WAS  SO SCARY !!!!! I WANT TO DO THAT!!!

[Sicj]

Man this was fucking ... wicked...

[townclutz99]

@Holidats If you look at the helmets they are all marked with roster numbers indicating this video is from the U.S. Army Airborne School at Fort Benning

[Holidats]

Pure lack of ground training and selection procedure.

Some of your men are hesitant.

Some of your men have not been adequately inspected by their NCO's.

Poor supervision and leadership from above. I blame your bosses, not the gallant young men who train for war.

[cmiller524]

Jumping is not play tme with Sally. It's hard work under stessful conditions with very awkward and heavy gear. On my last jump with the 82nd INfantry, I was supposed to get a cherry jump with no equipment. But, nobody had enough time or jumps to jump in a Dragon anti tank weapon, so I had to do it.

The origtinal video above is a combination of bad jumps, probably young jumpers, heavy equipment...everybody has a bad jump, it's risky business.

Some of the shots are jump school #d helmets

[AsiasDad]

There are reserve chutes? back up's?

[MrBarri13]

@dynmicpara my dad's friend had to pull his reserve 3 times int 3 jumps

[eddvoss]

@dynmicpara nothing replaces good training to begin with. I had the good fortune to have had some of the best instructors available and it showed. Worst injury was a pulled muscle. Great video.