HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Military officials are investigating after 32 parachuting soldiers were injured, four badly enough to require hospitalization, when 87 jumpers were blown into trees during a night training exercise in Mississippi. Injuries during training jumps are fairly common, but the scale of this accident is fairly rare, Col. Christopher Landers, commander of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, said during a brief news conference Thursday. “In my career, I’ve seen about a half-dozen times where this many jumpers end up in the trees,” he said. He said the last soldier was brought down from the trees about 8 a.m. Thursday but equipment was still being retrieved that afternoon. All injured soldiers should recover fully, with the most severely injured probably taking about three months, Dr. Duncan Donald, trauma medical director at Forrest General Hospital, told reporters earlier . He said five soldiers had broken vertebrae, but none of them had an injured spinal cord. The soldiers were among 650 jumping in to open a 10-day training exercise at Camp Shelby, a 134,000-acre (525-square-kilometer) National Guard site that includes a joint forces training center for active and reserve service members, officials said. Landers said the Army is investigating just what caused the accident. Each similar accident has had a different cause, he said. Col. Bobby Ginn, post commander for the Camp Shelby Joint Forces
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