Trust or Stupidity?

[Sleepy Doc]

While this seems a bit silly to you and I, to these guys it makes perfect sense.

And that's what it's all about. If you're that good, you can pull stunts like that off and do it while mitigating the risk. I think it's bad ass.

There is always an assumed risk, but when you reach a certain level of mastery the risk gets closer to zero.

Look at it this way; I remember being at Bragg once and we were shooting at static targets shoulder to shoulder 3,5, 7 meters.. you know the drill. When range control came out he lost his fucking mind and almost shut us down. He couldn't (and wouldn't) accept the fact that we felt perfectly safe not being behind the 25 meter line and were not wearing k-pots. To him we might as we might as well have been shitting on Bibles, burning the American Flag and dancing around the flames. I remember him getting into a heated argument with the OIC and platoon daddy. For us it was business as usual.

Same thing, different "sport"

[EvilCouch]

While this seems a bit silly to you and I, to these guys it makes perfect sense.

And that's what it's all about. If you're that good, you can pull stunts like that off and do it while mitigating the risk. I think it's bad ass.

There is always an assumed risk, but when you reach a certain level of mastery the risk gets closer to zero.

Look at it this way; I remember being at Bragg once and we were shooting at static targets shoulder to shoulder 3,5, 7 meters.. you know the drill. When range control came out he lost his fucking mind and almost shut us down. He couldn't (and wouldn't) accept the fact that we felt perfectly safe not being behind the 25 meter line and were not wearing k-pots. To him we might as we might as well have been shitting on Bibles, burning the American Flag and dancing around the flames. I remember him getting into a heated argument with the OIC and platoon daddy. For us it was business as usual.

Same thing, different "sport"

I always wanted to fill out a DA 7566 like this:
Initial Risk Level: Extremely High
Controls: Being fucking awesome!
Residual Risk Level: Low

[Nomad]

so what was the mitigation, two chuted clowns plus a camera guy?

Essentially speaking yes. Those clowns fly just as good as they walk.

It's no different than you trusting someone to take a shot right next to your head. IF he misses, you might be dead. Chances are he won't and you wouldn't be in the situation to have someone pull the trigger that close to your brain housing group if everyone weren't extremely proficient.

[Bravo57]

I would never try that shit, but it was BAD ASS!

[RTO]

I would never try that shit, but it was BAD ASS!

X2 I can only imagine the fear/adreniline rush receptors were off the charts. Jumping with a chute is scary and exciting enough for me, this must be like 10 times more of a rush.