Got quite a few jumps and JM jumps and yes I have put guys in the trees. Almost all my jumps were visual release, but if the DZSO screws up the panel placement, no matter how good you are the jumpers, as least some are going into the trees. Turner DZ at Devens in 69 was actually a 2 - 3 person DZ but 4 went on a regular basis, that is how the DZ was enlarged originally, cut down trees getting chutes out. When I returned to Devens in 74 I could not believe the size of Turner and it got bigger.
I have seen CARP jumps, and there was a period when they were forced on us, in which as DZSO, I was trying to stop a jump in which the aircraft flew exactly opposite of the wind right down the edge of the DZ, yep, all in the trees.
Take care blaming the JM for a tree landing, and for those of you that never did it, congrates, but my bet is you used Sicily, Normandy and Holland a lot. Try some of the postage stamp DZs we used in the 70s. They were cleared for 6 Conventional and 12 SF.
Basically there were two types of jumpers, those that went in the trees and those that will go in the trees.
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