Jason Voorhees
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Just look at this video and tell me they dont seem cool asf. Jumping the middle of heavy artillery fire, from thousands of feet above the ground with nothing but a parachute, a knife and a rifle.
In the army I realised how dogshit paratroopers lives were.
Paratroopers have one of the hardest jobs in the military. You're not just jumping for fun. You're jumping into chaos. Into artillery fire, into pitch-black nights with flak bursts lighting up the sky, into enemy territory where everything wants you dead. You hit the ground hard alone or scattered. No safety net. No clean landings. Just hope your chute opens and you're not dropping into trees, water, or a minefield.
And even before that, the training is hell. Long marches with 40kg packs, constant drills practice jumps where . You don't sleep well, you eat on the move, your knees and ankles are destroyed before you even see combat. Most paratroopers have back problems before 30.
A paratrooper described it to me. When you do jump into a real op, it's not a heroic moment. It's panic It's silence in the plane and then wind and fear and praying you're not about to get shot mid-air. And once you're down, you're cold, wet disoriented, probably injured, and you still have a mission to finish.
The cool factor fades fast when you see how many don't walk away from ow many walk away limping for life.
In the army I realised how dogshit paratroopers lives were.
Paratroopers have one of the hardest jobs in the military. You're not just jumping for fun. You're jumping into chaos. Into artillery fire, into pitch-black nights with flak bursts lighting up the sky, into enemy territory where everything wants you dead. You hit the ground hard alone or scattered. No safety net. No clean landings. Just hope your chute opens and you're not dropping into trees, water, or a minefield.
And even before that, the training is hell. Long marches with 40kg packs, constant drills practice jumps where . You don't sleep well, you eat on the move, your knees and ankles are destroyed before you even see combat. Most paratroopers have back problems before 30.
A paratrooper described it to me. When you do jump into a real op, it's not a heroic moment. It's panic It's silence in the plane and then wind and fear and praying you're not about to get shot mid-air. And once you're down, you're cold, wet disoriented, probably injured, and you still have a mission to finish.
The cool factor fades fast when you see how many don't walk away from ow many walk away limping for life.
