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 Airborne fought on D‑Day.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Army will recode 20,000 parachutist jobs in a major airborne restructuring. Here, an Army paratrooper assigned to the 173rd ...

At 19 years old, Army Pfc. Mace Veit completed four of the Army's most challenging training schools in a single year.

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 ...

The second week of October was unseasonably warm around Aviano Air Base, Italy, with several warm days of almost cloudless skies. That made it just a bit easier for hundreds of Sky Soldiers to ...

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- Command Sgt. Maj. Terry M. Sanchez, command sergeant major of the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), with over 500 jumps, took part in his final airborne operations on ...

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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 ...

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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, ...

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 ...