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TWO MEMBERS OF the Defence Forces have been injured during a routine parachute display team training exercise.
The Defence Forces parachute display team comprises members from all ranks and services of the Defence Forces, permanent and reserve.
The incident happened today at the Defence Forces training centre.
A statement from the Defence Forces this evening said the injuries sustained by both personnel were non-life threatening.
The pair have been transferred to hospital by a Defence Forces Ambulance and are in a stable condition.
“An investigation is ongoing as per Defence Forces standard operational procedures,” the statement said.
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From what I heard ..due to us free loading on other countries for protection, in order to do training 1 of them make plane noises while the others jump from a table with their coats acting as parachutes..I heard that the table broke with too many on it.
@hi from heaven: not funny
More money wasting, parachute display team, what the hell do we want them for. Spend the money on the navy patrols and get better equipped for the Garda. The army should be dismantled and blended into the Garda and navy.
@brendan C5: go boil your head ya big cabbage
@Ross McGee: CLOWN.
Listening to Tom Petty is banned from US parachute training. Same rule should apply here.
@Susa delrosario: Okay for a
@Susa delrosario: Here they jump in pairs and if one of them doesn’t jump their commanding officer sings:
“Take your parachute and jump
You can’t stay here forever
When everyone else is gone
Being all alone won’t seem that clever………”
Probably didn’t bend the knees when landing, rookie mistake lads.
@Sean Money: yeah you tell em. Those defence forces parachute display team members are soooo inexperienced.
This is important work. They’re needed in Croke Park to celebrate limericks 5 in a row!
They have parachutes ??? What do they jump from ? A high wall or something
It’s the greens fault.
@a million ,really ! country is gone mad .:
Yeah, the greens were not blowing enough hot air to them , its down to global warming thats what they will tell u…..
Parachutes ? Surely these two must have been members of Dáil Éireann bailing out before the next election.
They won’t make the cut
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