stackyFACTSWhen jumping out of perfectly good aircraft at low altitudes, there is no time to manually pull a ripcord. Soldiers are physically clipped to a long static line inside the plane that forcefully yanks their chute open the second they fall out the door, making the process idiot-proof and brutally abrupt.
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