Treejumping

Treejumping is a form of parachuting, into a forest or jungle – typically, from a relatively low altitude. It is generally considered to be a particularly dangerous form of parachuting. Treejumping is also especially damaging to the parachuting equipment.

In the United States Army, there is one platoon of combat engineers, Bravo Company of the 27th Engineer Battalion, trained to intentionally jump into forested areas in order to create drop zones for follow-on forces.

Smokejumpers train and equip themselves for tree landings to fight forest fires.

Treejumping in fiction

*In "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1954), a character is killed during a World War II treejump.
*In "", the main character treejumps into Vietnam.
*In "", the player performs a HALO jump into a Soviet jungle.