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Jumping out of CH-47s is like taking a nice short walk, with that last step being a long one.
We had a jump on the Naval Academy Dairy Farm once where we jumped in 8-12 mph winds gusting to 20-30. I think our Group Commander was in a hurry to get to altitude to do his HALO jump, so as soon as the DZSO reported a break in the winds, we started jumping. People were dragged all over the DZ. This DZ was full of troublesome obstacles (a culvert full of concrete chunks, a power relay station at one end, a manure pond at the other end), but luckily no one was seriously injured that day. We did have a cherry jumper drown in the manure pond once though.
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