I heard that the Soviets tried the spam-in-a-can method but had dropped/pun it after too many mishaps. I didn’t know they Russians had resurrected it. They used to use braking rockets on the pallets, don’t know if that involved crewed vehicles.
Me, I don’t fly well with a window seat; no way anybody is sealing me inside an AFV.
The idea of night drops bothered me a good bit. I did not care for the idea of possibly coming down in a lake. Or a pond. Or a swamp or bog. Or an ocean....
After 388 jumps, my Airborne days are over. I would have liked to have quit with an even 400, but then I'd have said *Oh, petunias!* and gone for 500 even....