Over 20 hurt in military parachute training accident

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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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