Airborne paratroopers prepare, gear up, and take to the skies for a mass tactical jump operation. Multiple C-130 aircraft release waves of soldiers over the drop zone in perfect coordination. From the ...
The Airborne Soldiers at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) have a dangerous enough job of jumping from an aircraft onto solid ground yet they recently upped that by adding a body of water as their ...
The D-Day invasion is typically remembered for the brutal fighting on the beaches of Normandy, but the battle had already ...
FORT BENNING, Ga. (WRBL) — Paratroopers at Fort Benning quite literally jumped into the holiday season Tuesday morning. That’s because of Operation Toy Drop, an annual initiative to get presents under ...
February 22, 1907 - Sen. Elmer J. Burkett from Lincoln delivered George Washington’s Farewell Address to the U.S. Senate on Feb. 22, 1907. Be bold, get cold. That was the motto at Holmes Lake to ...
U.S. Army Paratroopers from the 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade conducted an airborne operation from a U.S. Air Force 86th Air Wing C-130 Hercules onto Juliet Drop Zone ...
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 ...