Firefighters help paratrooper finish jump after missing the ground

Firefighters help paratrooper finish jump after missing the ground

An Indiana fire department got a call from a local National Guard base with an unusual — though not unheard of — request. A paratrooper on a training jump at the Guard’s Muscatatuck Training Center had not quite completed a key part of a mandatory task on a training jump — namely, reaching the ground. Instead, the Indiana National Guard soldier had gotten hung up in a tree just off the Bowden Drop Zone, about 30 feet up. A rope rescue team from …