Airborne insertion goes wrong on Badger DZ. Jump was at 1200 FT AGL. Winds aloft were 30 Kts. Winds on DZ were 5 Kts. Parachute was a T-10D. Aircraft was a C-130
I can. I was the dude in the video. High winds aloft. Landed about 200m downind of the POI. Landed in a tank ditch. Was trying for a right front PLF and my leg stuck on the upslope of the ditch I would up in.
@@bananagunner is there anyway you can explain this in simpler terms? I understand you were falling way too fast and you clearly landed wrong but what does the cap letters stand for? Other than the wind what else failed? I’m sure you knew what you were doing but clearly things went sideways. What happened after the video cut out? Did you recover okay? (I hope you did). Details, man, we need the details!!🧐
@@Bethlam I landed about 200 meters from where I was supposed to. The Point of Impact (POI). I was trying to do a right front parachute landing fall (PLF) and my leg stuck and my body rotated around my leg and broke it.
Dude landed straight on his legs, as someone who shattered there kneecap from falling I think I'd rather curl my legs and brake a rib than land with my legs out and take all the impact into my knees, atleast they give you morphine in hospital lol
I have 135 jumps and there are times when you "just hit hard." Fortunately I've never been seriously injured. I feel for this guy and hope he recovered and went on to do whatever he wanted to do. Hard Corp Brother!!
@@keithh1380 He didn't use the parachute landing fall (PLF). It's a technique for a paratrooper to safely land. Basically once u land u roll over your body to the side or back to spread the weight of the body across the body rather than putting all the weight and pressure on your legs (ankles). As u can see this guy just landed straight down all the way with his legs. The gliding down a paratrooper goes through isn't slow.
@@keithh1380He didn't land correctly. The joke of airborne is it literally makes you shorter by hitting the ground so damn hard. Like your spin gets compressed like a pancake.
My first duty station was Benning and during reception I had a 2LT get all in my face because I told her I wasn't going airborne..😅😅 I hit her with a "no ma'am. I see no reason to jump out of a perfectly good aircraft. If it's going down, I'm a quick learner."
@@eriktrevino5374 it's funny because i initially typed, "now shaped like a swastika in progress", but that seemed a little bit too edgy for the current climate we live in.
@@holazaddy naw just land on your legs but always bent. Let your thighs and knees take the brunt of the force. If you ever watch parkour or guys who do ridiculous height jumping always bent legs.
There are SO many comments wanting to sound smart when in reality they have no idea of what happened. According to the OP, high winds pushed them far off course, and by bad luck he was pushed into a tank ditch. He ATTEMPTED to land and roll as everyone is ignorantly claiming he didn't do, but his leg got caught in the ditch and his roll ended up snapping his leg. After 12 failed surgeries, he ultimately decided to amputate his leg, and says he's doing better now with the robot one. He continues to skydive to this day. Thank you for your service.
@@eliasziad7864except this is an exercise and if I remember right this was done in cooperation with the Dutch over a training field in the Netherlands. He is as much am invade as you are a smart person.
@Drilltayler...Just for the record "Airborne Ops", along with hi winds/training accidents happen "almost" every day and night. It's something our people train for over and over again until we can do it in our sleep. Not to sound like a know it all, but some of us do have an idea of what really happened. And I am just curious as to how many Airborne daytime/nighttime static line Ops you been on highspeed...btw did anyone else eyeball a tank ditch in that training jump video? Or anywhere close to the jumper in question? I only eyeballed a single lane improvised dirt/sand trails/roads running throughout the DZ, which our recovery vehicles and military tactical/medical vehicles use. Btw we do not "attempt" to land...Once we jump, us old schoolers conduct what we call a DPLF- aka Dynamite Parachute Landing Fall. Sorry to see what happened to this jumper...but sometimes bad things happen to all of us, whether in training or whatever the case maybe.
It happens. One of my West Point instructors told us he was on a jump and got a serious head injury, almost detached both retinas. High winds dragged him way off course. He said he spent like 2 months in a dark room in a hospital with a blindfold on recovering. Same thing happened to the Sergeant Major. These guys were highly experienced. These are not recreational parachutes, they drop much more vertically. The newer chutes are safer.
I was going to say, I have been skydiving, (first jump solo but with instructors initially holding on) and I don't remember hitting the deck that fast.
This reminds me of my first, and last, jump. The parachute opened up okay, and at the right time. But it was a cold and windy day. Each of us had radio communication with those guiding us from down below, doing their best to direct us to exactly where we should land. But on this cold and windy day, the ground was completely dry and rock solid. I felt that I got lucky and did not end up with a broken hip, because I guess I overdid the roll method that is used to minimize impact. I felt even more lucky when fire engines and ambulances showed up, all to help others who were not so lucky. Some of the others had ended up stuck in the trees, or had a nasty bone busting ground impact. OUCH ! Simply put, there should have been no parachuting on that day.
Isn't rude to say Im sorry it ended your (military) career? That shit ended his good times. He might be in a wheelchair for the rest of his life but anyway not fit to have a Street fight or intensive lifting jobs. In a way, its a good thing his mind screamed out of pain. For his heart would have cried and screamed for a whole day.
@@rohanofelvenpower5566 i didn't mean it in a rude way when I mean I'm sorry that that ended ur career means I'm sorry that that had to happen and end ur career
I've seen this one before and unfortunately I know exactly how it feels. After 9 knee surgeries and a dozen back surgeries my body feels decades older than it is.
😮 OmGG! That is a horrible mechanism of injury! People don’t understand the pain of broken bones unless they go through it…my career almost ended when I fell through the roof of a structure fire I was working and before we could step back on the ladder the whole roof just caved and 2 of us went down 30 feet to the basement landing on our back, I got it worse because I broke his fall and I was the paramedic on duty that day…I broke a LOT of bones, blew 4 discs and had to have a anterior and posterior lumbar fusion, 3 artificial discs put in my neck, etc. Took 3 years but I finally made it back to full duty 6 mo ago. That had to be so incredibly heartbreaking, not just physically but mentally. I’m sure you had to work really hard to get there, & not being able to deploy with your brothers sucks too, I bet the VA just gave you “stellar” care. 😢 🥺 kinda makin’ me tear up rn…Thank you for your service, hope you are proud of yourself for overcoming all of that pain, and stress. I hope you are recovering well ❤
Once that initial hit of pain (notification) came the first few seconds you can hear it got slightly better (point made now lets survive) and it was just agony. The brain is so cool.
The sound of someone screaming in real pain has always made the hair on my neck stand up. It's somthing movies will never get right. There was a few times I knew i was walking up on something bad, just from that high pitched desperate scream.
The moment when you see that your friend is in so much pain he ain't even screaming just pressing air out of his lungs,redface and twitching eyes, about to pass out. Its frightening to see.
I went to a guy’s house on an ambulance run and I saw his airborne ranger uniform picture on the wall. I told him “I was a mech grunt”. He said “your back and knees will thank you”.
My dad was airborne for over 15 years. He was 6’3” when he first became airborne. Was only 6’ by the time he got out. He still swears it’s because the landings squished his height over time.
RoninTF2011 - yep. People shrink with age so it was probably combination of both. My mom says he used to be much taller too. He shrank 2-3 inches while in the army. He also has a lot of back problems now a days with multiple surgeries.
0:00 Technical Camera Difficulties 1:05 Jump 1:08 Chute Pull 1:16 Lmao 1:41 Realization 1:48 Regret 2:21 Landing and also Career Ending frame 2:37 Help has Arrived 2:45 Begins helping (i think) 3:00 Tears start rolling :(
There's a part in the book Currahee where the men are practicing landing by jumping off an elevated platform, One of the men believes he has broken his leg and informs the commanding officer who instructs him to continue with the drill and jump again. "After the next jump, it was clearly visible that he had broken his leg."
When I broke my leg I was so confused. Didn't even hear the snap. I just remember this extremely agonizing pain. When they dropped my broken leg off the stretcher and my thigh made a right angle that's when it hit me...
Definitely cuz of the instant adrenaline I've done it a lot in the past ill get adrenaline boosts and I basically lose all control of my nerves and I dont realize how much strength I use
Lmao. I thought you were gonna say skmething like "when they dropped my broken leg off the stretcher and they started moving, i realized my leg stayed there as i watched it getting further and further away from me until i couldnt see it anymore.."
Then that would be my dad's job he was a u.s navy sarc corpsman and if you are wondering what sarc means it stands for special operations amphibious reconnaissance corpsman
The relief of seeing the canopy deployed is undescribable...the ground rush is very sudden and i once tore ligaments in my right ankle despite having rigid boots on, this lad had a bad landing but his brothers were there to assist. Hope he is ok now.🇬🇧🇺🇸❤️
For anyone who doesn’t know, you’re suppose to bend your knees and turn 90° so you land on your side/hips to help break the fall. He came in forward and straight down.
back in the day we jumped t-10 charlie chutes and it was always feet and knees together and try to follow your 5 points of contact 6 if you count your kevlar helmet hitting the ground......ft bragg days.
Makes me think of how many paratroopers mustve broke one or both legs on D-Day middle of the night who didn't dare cry out for help because enemies were all around them but also since they can't cry out it was very unlikely that any of their own guys found them....
I’ve dislocated my knee twice, (different injury, I know) and hearing you scream out in pain made me shudder. That brought back some nasty memories. Glad your alright, mate.
I love how this is a serious video of an incorrect landing just minding its own business. Then youtube recommends it to everyone and its full of memes. GG RU-vid.
It pisses me off so much that a man who broke his leg is being joked about on RU-vid. Yes, “it’s a joke”; this isn’t the right place to be joking. (Not directed at you mate)
o k If you can’t take a joke then don’t go through the comments, original jokes were about stuff like this, but people nowadays don’t understand the true meaning of a joke and only perceive it as being funny in a nice way, that’s why Dark humor is becoming more and more popular nowadays because many understand that it’s making fun of a messed up situation to bring joy
Damn! Poor guy looked like he knew what he was doing, but things must have gone sideways at the last second, and he was a soldier to boot. Hope he has healed 100%
I've broken bones before and I know that pain like it's still with me,I remembered the brutality of the bone touching the nerve and poking the muscle. It's not a fun experience.
Ive broken several bones before, my collar bone my arm and my leg not at the same time though. My collar bone playing intense soccer,my arm playing football and my leg doing parkour with my buddies.
He was caught in a draft. It has been known to kill airborne. That’s why he said “This is going to suck” and why I’m going to Air Assault over Airborne because anything can go wrong even if you do everything right
I went to AB school in 1992 and it was certainly an experience. We lost two personnel to broken legs on the very first jump and a handful more as it progressed. Keep your feet together and do a PLF to keep your legs intact. I jumped over 10 years and I was lucky enough to never have a malfunction. Hope this guy recovered OK.
No big deal. The screen didnt turn red, he has around 35%hp left. He need a medi kit to get fully healed in 30sec. * Edit: WOW thank you for the likes, i love you all :)
I’m a licensed recreational skydiver so we fly rectangular chutes which are very different but I’ve had my share of hard landings due to my own error and inexperience, the force of a hard landing can be serious or even fatal. I’ve had nothing close to an injury like yours. I hope you’re doing well mentally and physically after this. Thank you for your service sir!
"The VA has determined this is a non-service related injury. But, here's two ibuprofen and some water." I'm so sorry this happened to you. Thank you for your service, brother. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
The Sergeant Major be like he's fine send him back to the chalk shit when i was in the sick in PANAMA back in 89. I broke both of my legs during a HALO crawled on my hands and knees through a minefield and some concertina wire got shot 12 times in the ass 6 in left cheek and 6 in the right tuck some shrapnel from a mortar that exploded near by it cut my face up pretty bad . I manged to kill 32 terriost with my K-BAR tossed a grenade's and loaded 12 hostages onto a Blackhawk . I got awarded a Purple Heart & the Brone Star and sill completed the mission in record time . The rest of the AIRBORNE be like Sergeant Major howcome you never told us that story before? Because i just thought it up all of the sunden it sounded good didn't it? I was motivating you now shut the fuck up and get onboard that C-130. We've got a RENDEZVOUS WITH DESTINY.
My fiance is immune to advil now because military so I snorted at this comment. Thanks I kinda needed some small amount of joy after that. Military guys don't scream like that..
That's about it. Was at the Corregidor Jump zone at Ft. Campbell and picked one guy off the deck. Both his main and reserve failed. He hit a pine tree and bounced to the deck. He was back at work in 48 hrs.
So many dudes get injured in military parachuting, mostly when using the roundies...I did about 250 jumps on land (T-10C from 1000ft) and around 100 in water (MC1 from 1500ft) and although it definitely contributed (just the land jumps) to my lower back and knee problems I have these days, I never actually broke anything and I am extremely lucky to not have done so. I hope your leg healed and you have full use of it again without any ongoing problems...
Accidents happen and even people who have done something many times over become complacent in. Every adult has some responsibility that could cost life or limb but we hold no value to attentive practice of skill and safety. This man will jump no more because he was complacent and failed to adapt. If this happened on deployment he could have died or gotten everyone else killed too. Thank God he is not dead and has learned from this. Hopefully they won't med board him and he can join another branch or do another job in the Army after recovery.
@@donut7907 On all of my jumps it was always... Feet, ass, head! 😅 ...and it always hurt afterwards too! 😂 Day jumps were the nice ones (unless there was high wind, but mine always got canceled if it was too high). Those were the only ones where you landed lightly enough you could practically land standing up (though I never risked it, primarily because you don't know exactly what it is you'll be landing on). Most of my jumps were always at night. Night jumps on the other hand, you dropped much faster, sometimes you couldn't even see the ground (fog), and judging your movement in relation to the ground was even more difficult. From what I see, this guy didn't fight his angular momentum (sideways movement due to wind and flight), plus he's much higher (like he's @ Benning), so he picked up even more speed as a result. Lastly, don't ever fight the landing or stiffen up. But you know this already having bailed out of a perfectly good airplane nearly 100 times! 🤣 😉👍
@@donut7907 Is that because of all the gear you have and your really heavy? or is that how every para drop goes? It seems like recreational parachutists(?) dont drop that hard idk tho
@@VashStarwind its a different type on parachute, yes the gear etc also affect it but with these military parachutes you are falling pretty much straight down and much faster with much less control
Been watching this video every few years for a long time. Never knew that it ended with you losing your leg. Glad you made it out the other end in a better spot almost in one piece, almost.
Hello. I was a paratrooper and a medic in the 82nd ABN infantry. I have a couple dozen jumps with all this same equipment. He was first out the door. Not guaranteed but most likely means he was an experienced jumper. His exit, and chute inspection after it deployed were both good. His fall rate and lateral movement(wind speed) were NOT fast. Some fall a little faster than others but there is NO malfunction, this was not unusually quick. On average, and trained to impact at 18-22 feet per second. If wind speed is too high they will cancel or delay the jump. This didn't look anywhere near the speed needed to scratch the jump. He releases his rucksack just after the 2:00 mark. It is attached to a cord/lanyard on your harness around your hip. This is so the weight of your gear impacts before you, meaning you don't have the weight on you when you impact. Now at one point you see him pull his right straps down. This may or may not of been an error. If it was to slip(steer) him in a direction no problem. You do this for many reasons, for example avoiding collision with another jumper, a road on the ground, tree etc. I would even do this after I became more experienced just so i didn't have to walk as far to the 'meet-up' point, nothing wrong with this. It is an error if this is him Flaring his chute. Flaring is pulling your chute down to slow your descent. You do this around tree top level. About 50-100 feet off the ground. If he was flaring, it was way too early. If you flare early, the air you grabbed doing it will escape causing you to speed back up. After this he didn't seem to flare at all, or near enough. His landing was poor. You're supposed to do a PLF, parachute landing fall. It's essentially a roll. You distribute the impact around your body. I cant see if he did or not, but his knees should be bent, he should of been looking down towards his right, his shoulders and upper torso should of been turned to the right. He didn't seem to do his PLF correctly. Perhaps there was a rock, or his foot got wedged. It's hard to tell without looking at him rather than from his eyes. What I mean is, i would guess this was his main error but it also could of just been bad luck. He did have the good sense to release his parachute retention strap from his harness. You know this because once the guy arrives to help, he pulls it away meaning it was already detached. This is excellent. Your chute can violently drag you after you land if you don't release this mechanism. The fact that he did this immediately while in so much pain is good to see---good on him, good training. I really hope my fellow trooper recovered well and has no lasting problems from this. ALL THE WAY! thanks for reading.
Thank you for taking the time to type that, I was actually intrigued and wanted to find out what went wrong, thank you for your service man, you guys are badasses out there, ignore these wimpy, whiney, little snowflakes over here crying about violence or the annoying teens making obnoxious jokes, God Bless our military and stay safe man
@Alex Luca He’d have to be actively transmitting over the radio for that to happen. Unless the Army uses some type of radio comms that doesn’t require manual transmitting.
@@acdeeiprrt if you watch, when he says, "this is gonna such suck", he cuts his gear away and drops it. I think his chute was tangled and he tried to correct it, wasn't paying attention to how he was landing, and tried to land standing up.
For the people who don’t know why he broke his legs it’s because he attempted to land standing up straight instead of Spreading out his weight evenly on his fall.
But aren't you supposed to land om the balls of your feet then roll on buttocks in the event of malfunction to have lower body absorb impact and reduce risk of damaging upper body vital organs???
@@quantumxfluxmd6821 but you are supposed to tunble over in the direction of travel problem was he was only traveling straight down so he had nowhere to fall
Yeah, it’s like a jamming a finger, but with your legs, when going straight into the ground pretty fast your leg has to take some of the shock, that’s why you’re supposed to land with all your body weight so you don’t put it all on your legs and break them.
Its wild how sometimes endorphins kick in immediately and you feel nothing and other times its intense agony. I broke my collarbone on a slip-n-slide (jumped from a small hill and landed on my shoulder instead of my chest) back in 99/2000 and blacked out (I only remeber the jump and then waking up at the bottom of it with my friends looking over me). When I regained consciousness my friends were like "are you ok?!?", I got up, right shoulder/arm pushed inward a few inches and I said "Guys... I think something's wrong..." when I attempted to move my shoulder backwards I could feel the bones rubbing together. There was ZERO pain and I have a pretty low pain tolerance. My mom had me take my shirt off OVER MY HEAD (which is something you definitely don't want to do) and that didnt hurt either. My dad said when he applied slight pressure it looked like the bone was going to pop through the skin. It only started to hurt about an hour or so after it happened and it was a gradual build up from "ow this hurts" to "OMFG this is excruciating". They game me a shot of Demerol in the thigh after my dad freaked out on them and I was on Cloud 9.
I had an accident and shattered my left leg and forgot how bad that pain was until I watched this. Just feels like you've had your leg set on fire then squashed in a hydraulic press.
Its so weird how everything seemed fine even peaceful up until the landing. Ive broken bones before and theres not much that can top it. Sucks that the surgeries didn't help your leg. But im glad youre still doing your thing.
I met this career jumper vet who could barely walk with a cane, couldn’t carry stuff like a suitcase, couldn’t stand up for more than a few minutes, had PTSD, bipolar, was divorced, and would argue with me. Then he would tell me how much money he was making on disability(over $90k). The toll mentally, physically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually is not worth the money.
On big jump nights (dozen or more planes), the ER on Ft. Bragg would be packed with them right after a drop. Saw some crazy injuries when I was at Pope
Hello there, welcome to Earth, our dumbest but simultaneously smartest species are the Homo Sapiens, I am one of those, so take my words with a grain of salt, ... or calcium, whichever takes your fancy. 🤣
can’t believe the amount of people commenting how you landed incorrectly when it’s obvious your descent was much faster than any other person in the video. respect to you for getting back out there with a robo leg and continuing to live your life unafraid. i thank for for people like you protecting our freedom!
@unropednope4644 he was also "running with the wind". Not sure why absolutely no one had picked up on this. You can clearly see that he was facing the direction he was traveling in. At first I wasn't 100% sure of this. But, once he looks up briefly at his risers, you can tell.
It was not his fault , he was falling at greater speed , notice how everyone was up and he was already down ???(01:58) . This might indicate he was given excessive weight , defective parachute or any other factors
