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Rangers train for parachuting into water
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Two Army Rangers in training from Camp Frank D. Merrill float down into Lake Lanier during water landing training.
It’s pretty hard to breathe underwater with a parachute on your head. That’s why Army Rangers practice, Capt. Thomas Shandy said. “The purpose of this (training exercise) is to practice the most dangerous type of landing, which is a water landing,” Shandy said.