TOWNSVILLE, Australia — U.S. paratroopers made the most dramatic entrance possible to Australia during Exercise Talisman ...

QUEENSLAND, Australia - Under the cover of darkness, more than 350 U.S. Army paratroopers assigned to the 11th Airborne ...

Since World War II, the number of soldiers the Army has trained to be able to jump into combat has more than doubled. But as the service prepares for a future war, it worries there are too many ...

Liberty Jump Team was formed in 2006 by Dom and Jil Launay, Peter Plank, and Roger Wolf to honor paratroopers like Jil’s dad, Lt. Col. (Retired) Gordon K. Smith, who parachuted into Normandy ...

Paratroopers from 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, prepare for a mass tactical jump from a C-17 Globemaster III onto Salerno Drop Zone on Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Dec. 7, 2022.

Former US Army Parachute Team member and combat veteran Michael Elliott rates nine airborne jumps in movies, such as "Mission: Impossible — Fallout," for realism.

In the Italian campaign of 1943, American paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne had made combat jumps into Sicily. Gale-force winds scattered the drops and blew gliders off course.

Sgt. William Alverson, with Breacher Company, 6th Brigade Engineer Battalion (Airborne) recovers his parachute after making his first-ever jump from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter on Tuesday.

Test Parachutists from the Airborne and Special Operations Test Directorate conduct combat equipment jumps from a U.S. Air Force C-17 over Holland Drop Zone at Fort Bragg, North Carolina while ...

An 82nd Airborne paratrooper was killed during a training jump, officials at Fort Bragg said. The North Carolina Army post said Spc. Abigail Jenks, 21, of Gansevoort, New York, was part of the 3rd … ...

Olson, now 89, served as a member of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment of the Army’s 101st Airborne Division and made two combat jumps during the war — the first over France during the ...