On March 24, 1945, the largest single-day airborne assault in history dropped 16,000 paratroopers on the eastern bank of the ...

The Army will recode 20,000 parachutist jobs in a major airborne restructuring. Here, an Army paratrooper assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade recovers his parachute in Pordenone, Italy, on March 20 ...

Parachute riggers assigned to Group Support Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) successfully executed the ...

The D-Day invasion is typically remembered for the brutal fighting on the beaches of Normandy, but the battle had already ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US Army quickly deployed assets to Alaska's Aleutian Islands amid Russia and China's Pacific naval drills. The 11th Airborne ...

FORT LIBERTY, N.C. — Airborne and special forces Soldiers at Fort Liberty are testing the latest small arms weapon sights. The 82nd Airborne Division, joined by the 3rd and 10th Special Forces Groups, ...

Air Assault Brigade continues to strengthen interoperability with the US 82nd Airborne Division and France's 11e Brigade ...

The U.S. Army is restructuring its airborne forces, leading to pay changes for thousands of parachutist positions. According to a report from the American military newspaper Stars and Stripes, an ...

Airborne units are typically the first American forces to reach a crisis zone, which means their equipment must prepare them for immediate contact the moment they land Units like the 82nd Airborne ...

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

The shape of things to come for the U.S. Army became clearer last week. Formation of the nation’s first division of airborne troops was announced by Under Secretary Robert Porter Patterson—and a ...

The Naval Air Systems Command, known as NAVAIR, is conducting market research for a weapon it calls the Advanced Emission ...