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Over 20 hurt in military parachute training accident

By Tim Pearce
Published October 3, 2019 12:34pm ET
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Over 20 hurt in military parachute training accident
U.S. paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg in North Carolina, reach the ground after jumping from a US Air Force C-17 aircraft during Saber Strike military exercises at the Gaiziunai Training Area, some 130 kms (80 miles) west of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, Saturday, June 9, 2018. A major U.S.-led military exercise with 18,000 soldiers from 19 primarily NATO countries is taking place in the alliance's eastern flank involving Poland and the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. | (Mindaugas Kulbis/AP)

At least 22 soldiers are injured after a parachute training exercise at a Mississippi military base went wrong.

About 90 soldiers jumped from a C-130 plane during one run, but the soldiers were blown off course and many landed in a clump of tall pine trees, according to WDAM. Some soldiers remained stuck in trees and had to be rescued by local firefighters.

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