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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft operated by the 517th Airlift Squadron conduct flight operations, refueling, and ...

Airborne units are typically the first American forces to reach a crisis zone, which means their equipment must prepare them ...

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 ...

Welcome back to another General Discharge video! By popular demand, here is an overview of the U.S. Army Airborne Jump School in Fort Benning, GA. Service members from every branch go to this school ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...