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By Michele Gorman
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A soldier with the U.S. Army Special Operations Command was injured on Tuesday after his parachute failed to deploy during a training exercise in western Montana, an Army official said.
He was part of a group of parachutists who were conducting a free-fall jump from Blackhawk helicopters in the city of Hamilton, Montana. The soldier, whose name has not been released, was forced to land in a residential area after his device malfunctioned.
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Nearby residents rushed to help, and the aircraft used for the trainees made an emergency landing to rescue the soldier, according to local news. He was transported to a hospital in Missoula, where he was being treated for his injuries on Wednesday. The extent of the soldier's injuries are unknown but he is expected to recover, an Army official told Newsweek.
A businessman in Hamilton who witnessed the incident told the Ravalli Republic that the soldier's parachute appeared tangled. "He went straight down like a dropped pencil," he told the local newspaper. "He went straight down through the others. It happened really fast."
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