To "parachute in" means just what it sounds like - you jump out of a perfectly good airplane trusting a bit of silk tethered to a harness around your body to somehow keep you from crashing into the ground at a very terminal velocity.
To "parachute out" is a little bit different. That's when they wrap your dead carcass in that same bit of silk as a makeshift body bag to carry you home in for the last time.
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To "parachute out" is a little bit different. That's when they wrap your dead carcass in that same bit of silk as a makeshift body bag to carry you home in for the last time.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake