Never been on a drop zone I take it?
Soldier does a bad PLF and breaks his leg? Don’t expect any sympathy from those who watched it.
I saw a full pallet of C Rations burn in. Looked just like an A Bomb going off. Lots of “Oh”, “Ah’s” and other comments on that one.
Pulled LZ duty at Ft Campbell with the 101st in '67 for test drops of pallet loaded 55gal drums of water training for fuel drops. Had more than a few side straps break resulting in 4 to 8 barrels coming down like bombs. Learned to keep the jeep running watching the sky with the foot on the clutch after popping smoke for the pilots. 55 gal metal drum looked like a pancake after they hit.
Heck, we see when a guy gets nailed in the stones, other guys kind of joke and laugh about it, albeit somewhat nervously...