I see leg bags as distinct from the choice of harness because both types of harnesses require strapping the leg bag close to your torso/leg for exit and opening.
Once their parachutes are open, modern paratroopers pull quick-release buckles to lower their rucksacks, rifles and snowshoes on 3 or 4 metre long lowering ropes.
As soon as you land 3 or 4 metres off to the side of your rucksack, you have vastly reduced the risk of landing on top of it.
As for a motive ??????? you tell paratroopers that they will jump into a mountain valley populated by pretty girls. They will have a few days Liberty and then they will have to walk out. The more ambitious paratroopers will stuff their best civilian clothes in their duffle bags and jump with their duffel bags.
Alternately, you could have an MG34 assistant gunner tire of shoving a spare barrel inside his jacket, wrapping mg belts around his torso, around his arms, around his legs, etc. The bright lad stuffs all of his mg spares in a duffel bag and ties the duffel bag to his harness.
Master Corporal (retired) Rob Warner, CD, BA, etc.
Canadian Army Basic Paratrooper Wings, West Germany Army Bronze Para. Wings, plus more than 6,000 civilian jumps.
Once their parachutes are open, modern paratroopers pull quick-release buckles to lower their rucksacks, rifles and snowshoes on 3 or 4 metre long lowering ropes.
As soon as you land 3 or 4 metres off to the side of your rucksack, you have vastly reduced the risk of landing on top of it.
As for a motive ??????? you tell paratroopers that they will jump into a mountain valley populated by pretty girls. They will have a few days Liberty and then they will have to walk out. The more ambitious paratroopers will stuff their best civilian clothes in their duffle bags and jump with their duffel bags.
Alternately, you could have an MG34 assistant gunner tire of shoving a spare barrel inside his jacket, wrapping mg belts around his torso, around his arms, around his legs, etc. The bright lad stuffs all of his mg spares in a duffel bag and ties the duffel bag to his harness.
Master Corporal (retired) Rob Warner, CD, BA, etc.
Canadian Army Basic Paratrooper Wings, West Germany Army Bronze Para. Wings, plus more than 6,000 civilian jumps.