Dozens of U.S. paratroopers injured after parachute jump dur

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Dozens of U.S. paratroopers injured after parachute jump during mock battle goes horrifically wrong
Reports 13 paratroopers suffered head, spine and pelvic injuries during the training exercise
By Allan Hall

Last updated at 4:16 PM on 7th October 2011

Dozens of U.S. Army paratroopers have been hurt during a massive airborne drop in Germany.
Sixteen of the 47 injured men are still in hospital, two of them in intensive care after the jump involving 1,000 soldiers went terribly wrong. They suffered head, spine and pelvic injuries.
The exercise pitted soldiers from the Vicenza, Italy-based 173rd Airborne Brigade in a mock-battle scenario with Slovakian soldiers and American troops from the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team over the Hohenfels training area in Bavaria, southern Germany.

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How about this assclown's response?

When was the last time that paratroopers were deployed in wartime? My guess is WW II and I doubt the need to even use them in modern warfare.
- Peter Hobson, Hendersonville, N.C. USA, 07/10/2011 16:58

As for the paras? If it was easy they'd let legs do it! Sometimes you miss the DZ. It sucks. Get over it. "You ain't got a broken bone protruding thru the skin or have lost an eye..... shut your pie hole and ruck up! Pickup an azimuth and let's move out! Wussies!"

Nothing more than God's way of using prevailing winds and AirFarce miscalculations to weed out the weak.............. I'm jus' sayin'

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I liked this comment:

"They should've used more of the fairies they're recruiting, they would've floated down." :D