FORT LEE, Va. -- The U.S. Army Quartermaster School’s Aerial Delivery and Field Services Department dedicated one of its parachute-packing classrooms July 21 in memory of a XVIII Airborne Corps ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An investigation into the death of Army Spc. Matthew Perez cited numerous failures in safety procedures leading up to his fatal ...

U.S. Army Airborne School at Fort Benning is a fast-paced but intense three-week course that trains soldiers from all branches to conduct parachute operations. This video shows what it really takes to ...

Fourteen years after losing both his legs to an IED, Jon Harmon will step out of a C-47 and jump into same spot the 82nd ...

A veteran 82nd Airborne paratrooper who lost both his legs during combat in Afghanistan will jump onto the Normandy drop zone ...

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn Share via Email VICENZA, Italy – On March 26, 2003, during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, 1,000 paratroopers or “Sky Soldiers” from the ...

Every year, about 15,000 students perform five jumps from a live aircraft before graduating from the United States Army’s Airborne School, each depending on a parachute to get them safely to the ...

The paratroopers accomplished a series of tactical objectives, including parachuting the battalion’s advance group onto designated landing sites, thwarting enemy reserve approaches, neutralizing ...

Airborne Systems traces its origins to 1919 when a stunt-man for the fledgling California film industry made the world’s first free-fall parachute jump.

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — This week marked the 80th anniversary of Operation Market Garden, a pivotal World War II battle that led to over 11,000 allied force deaths and preceded the Battle of the Bulge.

Paratroopers assigned to a brigade under the PLA Air Force’s airborne troops open their parachutes after jumping out of a transport aircraft during a parachute training exercise in mountainous area of ...