stackyFACTSHitting the dirt under a heavy military canopy is the equivalent of jumping off a two-story building. To keep their shin bones from instantly snapping, paratroopers are trained to hit the ground in a violently choreographed tumbling routine that distributes the immense impact across their whole body.
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