Our dad was a pilot in WWII, Korea and Vietnam. Thanks to G-d, he survived and returned home to us. Dad used to say: "There are two types of people that jump out of airplanes. Idiots, and people in the armed forces." Yes, our dad had jumped out of airplanes. That said, if he still had two wings, he would fly, glide down instead of jumping.
That's amazing. My Dad was a bombardier on a B-24 in the Pacific Theater in WWII and refused to even get on a plane after his service until he flew on a 747 with me in the late '70s.