As a former paratrooper, I can't even imagine what would make someone do this. If convicted of 13 counts of attempted murder, he'll be facing quite a few years in prison. It could be worse. They could hand him over for 13 minutes with those Marines who had damaged chutes.

On my 12th jump, I had many things go wrong, so many that I refer to it as my clusterf**k jump. Immediately after the chute opened, I checked the canopy only to find several broken suspension lines hanging around me. That really got my attention. (And that was the least of my problems on that jump, but it's a long story). A few months later, I read a news article about a company (with organized crime connections) who'd sold known defective parachute suspension line to the military. I wonder if their crappy line ended up in my chute.