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

BEIRUT, March 7 (Reuters) - Israel's military carried out an airborne operation that dropped troops into a town in eastern ...

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 ...

Russia's elite airborne troops are taking increasing responsibility for Moscow's offensive operations in Ukraine, according to a new assessment. Russia's military commanders are "seeking to place an ...

National Airborne Day coincides with the Airborne & Special Operations Museum's 25th anniversary and a Liberty Tree commemoration. A ceremony marking the 250th anniversary of the Liberty Tree will be ...

The U.S. Army abruptly canceled a large-scale training exercise for the command headquarters of its elite airborne division, sparking speculation that the unit could be deployed for a potential ground ...

In the unforgiving Arctic environment, where extreme cold, distance and terrain impose relentless demands on Soldiers and ...

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 ...

STUTTGART, Germany — U.S. Army paratroopers in the days ahead will conduct airborne operations stretching from the Arctic to the Balkans while American special operators launch simultaneous ...

It’s built for a doomsday scenario. The U.S. Air Force E-4B “Nightwatch” – known as the “Doomsday Plane” -- can be in the air at a moment’s notice during a national emergency. There it can serve as ...

Retired Gen. James Lindsay, whose nearly four decades of distinguished service in the U.S. Army and efforts in his retirement to bring the Special Operations Museum to downtown Fayetteville, ...