What was your worst Jump?

I have to confess to never jumping out of a good aircraft. I did fly a lot of airdrops and watched nearly as many from the DZ as a DZ Safety Officer. CPT (Join to see), you can bet if I'd been on the DZ the day the winds were blowing to 27 knots, it would have been a no drop. I would have closed the DZ. Sorry you were allowed to jump. Dumb decision on the part of leadership all around.
As far as I know, I never flew a drop where the troopers were injured. I am both thankful and proud of that.

Our unit did have some interesting experiences with airdrops in the Arctic environment.
-During an exercise when the troops were in full winter gear, the Loadmaster stopped a stick and called no drop because a paratrooper had his static line wrapped around his neck. Had he exited the aircraft, he would have broken his neck and been killed.
-During a different exercise, a trooper's static line failed to deploy his chute. The trooper was being dragged behind the C-130 at 125 knots. The ambient temperature was -20 degrees F. The loadmaster told the pilot the trooper was moving (proving he was still alive). The pilot directed the Loadmaster to cut the static line releasing the trooper (a major deviation from procedure). The trooper fell free of the C-130 beyond the drop zone, deployed his emergency chute and landed safely. If the aircrew had followed procedure and race tracked back over the drop zone, the trooper would have frozen to death before the aircraft would have returned to the DZ.

On my 8th jump (3rd one after jump school). It was 1991 and I was at Bragg. C141 near simultaneous door exit cause the jumper from the left door to kick me in the head. I thought it was a bird at first until I saw a leg stuck in my suspension lines. As his chute deflated his weight caused him to pull down my right side suspension lines and he wound up upside down under me. His chute swirled around me and I was frantically pushing it down so I could deploy my reserve. As soon as I got his silk out of my face I saw tree tops which forced me to snap into a good tight body position for landing. someone on the ground later told me he pulled his reserve at tree top which pulled him semi upright before landing. He landed before me so I can tell you that 1/2 of a T10 will carry 2 jumpers to the ground somewhat safely. I did another 80 jumps after that and had some bad ones but that was the worst. coming in 2nd was a C141 whose engines died as we were were ul to jump, causing a swift 9p degree bank t
that ejected an entire stick 2 minutes early...good times...good times

It was probably around ‘74, my SF unit had a night equipment jump set for the DZ at Fort McClellen. Whoever the idiot officer was in charge of the jump forgot to requisition drop lines for our rucks or bags for our weapons. We were jumping from three C-141s and the winds were high. At the last minute, somebody on the air crew hit the wrong switch and the white lights came on inside the plane, blowing our night vision. We exited as the first sticks on each plane with rucks (no drop lines, remember) and slung weapons. The DZ there has a hill in the middle and also doubles as a training field for armor so there were big ruts everywhere. I came down behind the hill, having braced to land when the horizon was level, the horizon kept rising, then I hit, head over ass because of the ruck at my knees. No PLF, just bruises! My M-16 broke in half. I handed it off to the first sergeant at the rally point along with some editorial comments. Others weren’t so lucky — we had about 30 percent injuries — broken legs, backs and shoulders — from that first pass and the rest of the drop was cancelled. As best I know, nothing ever happened to the doofus in charge. Still, I’d give almost anything for one more military jump.

Went in stiff legged as my WECE release would not release. Night jump no less. Ft Bragg, 79. Wasn't sure if they were going to find me or not. Busted both knees up. Led to termination. Started drawing disability 5 years ago and just recently it was determined that there was nothing more short of surgery that the VA could do for me, so they have decided I am cured now and took the disability away. Just wish I felt cured.

1983 I did a deployment to Hill AFB, Utah. Boarded a C-141 and headed out. Somewhere over the U.S. we did in flight rigging. After getting all chuted up and JMPId. I have to piss !!!......I had to detach my ruck and climb over a bunch of guys. After getting back and reattaching the ruck I sat down. I thought everything was good until I exited the aircraft and my chute opened....As soon as the chute opened I immediately found out balls weren't where they needed to be !!......I'm 800 feet in the air trying to fix the problem when before I knew it, the ground was coming up....BAM.. I landed with my ruck still attached and the ground was hard as a rock. I hit hard and landed points 1 then right to my 4th. I just laid there for a minute in pain !!

Display determination 1985 jumping into turkey did inflight rigging only to have jump cancelled do to weather we landed and jumped the next day. You could tell the weather was bad do to how rough the flight was, doors opened went out the door my chute opened I looked down and could see the ground going by so fast it was a blur and very close. I didn't have time to drop my ruck, hardest I ever hit the ground, first and only jump in the rain, have no idea how low we were but there was no need for reserve chute because, would of never been able to use it. Didn't recognize any land features on the map because we weren't even on the map. Division injuries that day I believe we're over 30 percent. The excessive was D.D.-85 we called it Death Drop 85. Don't get me wrong it was the most fun I ever had in the field!!!!