IcarusMaybe

Coming from doing static line military jumps with some snappy openings, and a few incidents involving the family jewels, I wear two pieces of protection. Support shorts, with a cup if I'm doing static line mil jumps, just the shorts for skydiving. They keep everything in its proper place away from the leg straps. The second is slider shorts like baseball players wear. Started doing this when my legs were getting torn up by the unpadded straps on mil rigs. Works great, and a little extra protection if you have to slide out a landing.

Like this (see below) Not mine, mine were always tighter Winder, 08-02, Winter team.

Most of them don't get anywhere near the jumps that most civilian jumpers get. My dad's a PJ and has around 1,200 freefall and a few static line rounds (in a 30yr career). I'm a SERE Specialist and have about 30 jumps on rounds, still waiting to go to military free fall school...hopefully. The jump teams that have been mentioned here aren't an actual job, but rather a special duty, so all those people are qualified in something else as well, which they will probably go back to after a certain number of years with the team. Other special duties that get to jump a lot would be MFF instructor, or Test Parachutist.