AA:
Frankly if the guys don't like the prospect of landing in trees/water/slurry pits then they should join a craphat regiment.
While I'm happy to agree with that sentiment entirely there is the little issue of 1 1/2
miles...
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Now, there's risk put upon one by the nature of the job and there's that put upon you by the incompetence/errors/call it what you will of others... Put me on the DZ and in a tree - My problem. Put me a mile from the DZ in trees - Your problem.
Someone mentioned that maybe the DZ co-ordinates were wrong.
*COUGH* It's Otterburn... It's a fixed, mapped DZ that has probably been there since I was jumping.