Have taken off many times in a 10. Never landed in one. Great bird.
IIRC, the cargo compartment isn't very big. How many guys with chutes would you fit in there?
When I worked on them in the early 70's, we were training Iranian and Venezuelan pilots. The US had sold a bunch of them to those countries. Used for forward air control and spotting targets for the Phantoms, never knew guys jumped out of them.
Larry