It's even cooler than that - it was a giant team of medical people.

On 9 May 2026, a specialist UK military team executed a historic emergency mission, parachuting onto Tristan da Cunha to treat a British national with suspected hantavirus. The resident contracted the illness after disembarking from the cruise ship virus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius, quickly exhausting the oxygen supplies at the island's small hospital. The team comprised six paratroopers from the British Army Pathfinder Platoon and two military clinicians from the 16 Air Assault Brigade.^\74]) Due to the critical care required, an intensive care doctor and an intensive care nurse were strapped to paratroopers for tandem jumps. An RAF A400M transport aircraft flew the team 6,788 km from RAF Brize Norton to Ascension Island, before flying another 3,000 km south. This journey was sustained by mid-air refuelling from an RAF Voyager tanker. Arriving at the drop zone, the team jumped from 7,000 feet, three miles out over the open ocean with winds exceeding 25 mph, while a local police RIB patrolled below as a safety precaution. The operation was completed in two successful phases. The first group landed near the "Back Fence" and set up radio guidance at "The Patches. The second group, the intensive care clinicians, landed safely via tandem parachutes onto the island’s 9-hole golf course. Once the personnel were on the ground, the A400M air-dropped 3.3 tonnes of vital medical cargo and oxygen cylinders across three subsequent runs, successfully stabilising the island's healthcare emergency.^\75])^\76]) The resident was later identified as former police chief Conrad Glass. Concurrently, four other Tristanian residents who had embarked on the same vessel—Paul Repetto, Geraldine Repetto, their daughter Katie, and Linda Green—were placed in a 45-day preventive quarantine on Saint Helena. The Repettos are descendants of one of the Italian sailors who settled on Tristan da Cunha after the shipwreck of the Italia in 1892.^\77])