Training on how to jump from high heights into water...

[Boondocksaint375]

I didnt look around too much but found this site for you http://www.wood.army.mil/sapper/Photos/helocasting.htm

Just basic photos of a sapper helocasting. Basically the helo flies in.... you hop out, helo takes off, and you swim to shore. It is nothing more than a way to "quickly and covertly" get to your objective.

[dwarfy]

CC,

http://www.army.mod.uk/uksf/special_for ... e_/sbs.htm

Third photo down, is this what your thinking of?

[sneaky beaky]

That poor old Sapper must have a lousy pilot! Through him out from about thirty feet!!
I'd have wanted a parachute from that height!!

Dwarfy's picture looks very much like the view out of the back of a RAF Hercules during a "water jump" session. I believe parachutes were used!!
Sneaky

[anglo-saxon]

Since when has jumping off a bridge (presumably into a river) been considered an adventurous training activity? What possible purpose could it serve? Last time I looked, adventurous training included mounatineering, rock climbing, ice climbing, sailing, caving, windsurfing, and paragliding, etc.