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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 3698593" data-attributes="member: 39593">Like everything it varies, but people can take a lot more punishment than most are willing to believe.  Humans are fairly resilient creatures.I've personally done a fifteen mile roadmarch with one kneecap cracked, both feet broken and one lower leg fractured (though not badly).  Never realized how bad it was until after the roadmarch was done, however I was a lot more careful about handling pallets after that.I knew someone who sawed half their own index finger off cutting away parachute shrouds that tangled in a tree during a night jump and didn't even realize it until he made the assembly point.  Luckily they shot right-handed.I'm sure there are a lot more such incidents if you just look.For example the russian bomber crewman during WW2 who jumped without a parachute from more than 20,000 feet and survived.  Or this nugget of the incredible:  According to British Admiralty records, in February 1891, James Bartley, a seaman on board the whaler Star of the East, left the ship as part as a longboat crew during a whale hunt. The sea was rough, and the ship went under and all the sailors were picked up except Bartley. The whale which they had been harpooning then died and its body floated. It was cut and sectioned and a shoe attached to a foot and leg appeared from the flensing. Then Bartley was pulled out from the whale’s stomach, alive but unconscious. He remembered little except for the opening of enormous jaws and sliding down a long tube on the way to the whale’s stomach.  Bartley’s sight was affected by his experience and his skin was bleached. He spent his remaining years on land.</blockquote>

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