Video or it didn't happen....
You don't have to HALO them... you just have to put them in cages that open on impact. US Special Forces jumped in tons of livestock in Vietnam. Part of Hearts and Minds to get everything from pigs to oxen to whole flocks of ducks into the hands of VN farmers in the villages or strategic hamlets. Air America often provided the transport. Pigs were dropped in crates wrapped in chickenwire. The crates would break on impact, absorb the shock and the pigs would be able to come out unscathed. Those that were 'scathed' were delicious.
But I heard this story on the news earlier this week and w.out corroboration.... I call porcine scatology.
Cheers,
Sirhr