Captain Freedom fine after a 100-foot drop

The soldier ended his hundred-foot drop and hit the ground like a falling tree. The pavement cracked out from the impact point and kicked up the two years’ worth of dust the first helicopter had swept into small drifts. Bits of gravel and dirt pitter-pattered down across the area.
St. George was back on his feet, taking in a breath to shout for medical help. In those few instants the dust cleared and he froze. The man hadn’t fallen from the line.
He’d jumped.
The soldier straightened up from the crouch he’d landed in, a move that reminded St. George of Arnold Schwarzenegger traveling from the future in the Terminator movies.

Excerpt From Ex-Patriots, pg 181
Peter Clines
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