Jackson Jambalaya

Chowke's "free the land" paratroopers?

Try to understand that some foreign kids get put into "Airborne" with very little training and may not have even flown in an airplane before.

I remember a jump with Hondurans who were not only illiterate and totally untrained, but terrified. One fell on the ramp of a CH 47 slippery with hydraulic fluid and several were thrown out. Boots in behinds.

Jumpmasters should have been on their behinds. Sitting on the ramp like a kid testing out the pool water to see if it's "too cold?" But LMAO at the one going belly down out after falling. The ones landing off the DZ because of spazzes could get killed.

Not so sure they aren't Reservists or Guard folks as a guy shouts "Go" in English. Very poorly trained, though. They could have easily had malfunctions. Hopefully a US trainer or aircrew at worst and not our troops doing this sloppy exit.

Only their laundry knows how scared they actually were. Luckily looked like everyone got a good main up and survived.

Weekend warriors, baby.

There must be something intrusive that my privacy tools are blocking. I don’t see a video.

Those aren't reservists. Not here anyway. I'll be those are foreign troops.

*sigh*
No those are just zoomers. They are military aged now.
And they are all just like that everywhere in the world.

Think some of them had peanut butter in their shorts well before they exited the plane.. Too dang funny!!

Wonder what pronoun these "elite" forces use to identify themselves ?

Nuttin there.

Standup, hookup, check your gear...

“Not so sure they aren't Reservists or Guard”

Hey 9:38,

There is no separate airborne school or training for reserve/national guard forces. Active duty, Army Reserve and National Guard all receive the exact same training and the airborne classes are mixed with Soldiers from each, with no distinction.

You sound like an ignorant civilian or a really old boomer that doesn’t understand how the National Guard of today has transitioned into an operational reserve force that is constantly sending units on overseas rotations because the active Army component is unable or unwilling to meet its global obligations. Today’s National Guard equals and often exceeds the training and equipment readiness of our active duty peers even though we are a part time force. Right now the latest generation of M1 tanks and most experienced tank mechanics in the entire US Army are at Camp Shelby, MS. The MS Army National Guard has all Army helicopter frames, an armor brigade combat team, a special forces detachment, military police, air defense, an engineer brigade and many other capabilities.. all right here in MS.

I know that for one thing, they all learned about how gravity actually works. Good for them. Will do better next time or just won't show up.

I'm not going to lie. I'd be the one who turned around and started trying to claw my way back into the plane.

As a kid, I was also the one who would get on the high dive at the city pool, stand there in agony for 5 minutes (with everyone screaming "JUMP!!!") only to turn around and climb back down the ladder and make everyone in line get out of my way because I was NOT going to "jump!"

Needless to say... I did not join the military. LOL

its a good thing that they were not required to pull a rip cord on that jump

@8:49 PM - Good decision, as Clint Eastwood would say, "A man's got to know his limitations."

Been there. Ft Benning, GA. First jump ain’t easy.

Are these some of the ones will be going in to Ukraine to do another bang-up job of saving democracy and freedom?

It is when there is a boot in your ass. ;-)

Glad I served as a paratrooper in Italy. European troopers were much better trained.