[drgondog]

'slipping a chute like a T-7 or T-10 is taught with caveat that you don't do it unless drifting into a hazard with near certain death consequences - like hitting power lines, etc.

Any pilot (or trooper) slipping a chute to increase his sink rate, like Kryten says, is nearly always going to learn the law of unintended consequences. It is even worse when one is loaded up with an 'extra' 80-100 pounds of stuff you don't want to search for in the DZ..