Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. British and American airborne paratroopers jump out of the C17 (Cpl Aaron J Stone) The paratroopers floated down after springing ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. US Army paratroopers jumped into Arctic terrain at an exercise in Alaska last month. Photos show the mission, including troops ...

Penny-pinching defence chiefs are devising plans to slash the jumping capability of the legendary Parachute Regiment, it was feared last night. Just days after Downing Street sources suggested an ...

Army Staff Sgt. Jared Leonard (far right) of the 1st Battalion (Airborne), 501st Infantry Regiment, a 2004 graduate of Rantoul Township High School, prepares to parachute out of a C-17 plane during a ...

As Command Sgt. Maj. Vern Daley prepared for a parachute jump over Alaska on Thursday with the 11th Airborne Division, he had one addition to his standard Army uniform and equipment — his ...

Led in part by Central Florida’s Mike Waltz, 10 members of the U.S. House made a commemorative parachute jump Friday at Normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day and the historic assault that ...

As Americans continue to recognize the fallen members of D-Day from World War II, Congressman Jason Crow, an Army combat veteran who served in the 82nd Airborne Division and 75th Ranger Regiment, ...

ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Georgia – As the community at Robins Air Force Base celebrated the 70th anniversary of the C-130 Hercules in action, a select group of paratroopers from 1st Battalion, 507th ...

U.S. troops have been jumping out of perfectly good airplanes for more than 80 years, but a significant amount of training and preparation has gone into making paratroopers actually combat effective.