YAUSUBETSU TRAINING AREA, Japan (Feb. 23, 2015) -- Soldiers from U.S. Army Alaska, or USARAK, and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, or JGSDF, completed Exercise North Wind 2015 here, Feb. 21. To ...
The combined forces of the United States Army and United States Marine Corps took to the skies in Vaziani, Georgia for a joint airborne exercise on August 23, 2023. The jump marked an important moment ...
A video that’s recently gone viral shows what appears to be a U.S. Army paratrooper plummeting toward the earth under a partially deployed parachute during an otherwise routine jump. The short clip, ...
Whether on a special ops jump from 25,000 feet or with hundreds of paratroopers filling the sky, U.S. troops use a wide range of parachutes. By Joshua Skovlund Updated Aug 12, 2024 10:05 AM EDT ...
FORT MOORE, Ga. (WRBL) — Newly-minted paratroopers graduate from Airborne School at Fort Moore nearly every other Friday. Today’s graduation, including more than 300 soldiers, was extra special. April ...
On April 8, Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, XVIII Airborne Corps, hosted a jump into Sicily Drop Zone for more than 50 Soldiers representing the Adjutant General Corps and multiple units ...
A rare Army Special Operations Command exercise involving 550 paratroopers who were planning to jump into Camp Bullis was aborted late Tuesday due to aircraft safety concerns. Moments after lights ...
A group of mostly junior Army infantrymen and noncommissioned officers sat in a staging area Thursday, waiting to put on their parachutes for a nighttime jump into the Holland Drop Zone at Fort Bragg, ...
The Fort Bragg division is best known for its parachute jumps in World War II. Today, its specialty is rapid deployments - with or without parachutes. The 82nd Airborne Division turns 100 years old ...
Two Army noncommissioned officers were able to mark Father's Day early this year with a rare event: a father-and-son airborne jump. Sgt. Maj. Jason Towns, the command sergeant major of 3rd Special ...