Justin Tyme posted:

They're just round chutes with holes and flaps cut and sewn into them, they're not HALO aerofoils. Presumably it's because staff/command needs to be able to reliably not land in trees and way out on the opposite end of the DZ unlike Joe Grenadier.

That double standard always pissed me off, sustained airborne training is always conducted and as gay as it is it's a pretty big safety thing that these fucks always think they can skip because they've done it a million times and think it isn't a big deal. I can't imagine the jumpmaster on that plane got away scott-free since they would have to had known they were jumping MC-6s if they JMPI'd them and they should have known the minimum altitude and what altitude the plane was going to drop at- it's all stuff that gets briefed to everyone.