Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The C-130 bounced like a rollercoaster at a cheap traveling circus. I sat on the cargo netting bench seats surrounded by ...

An all-female assemblage of 70 paratroopers from the Army’s 11th Airborne Division on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson jumped from an aircraft operated by an all-women Air Force flight crew Thursday.

CAMP NARASHINO, Japan — Col. Ricky Taylor, commander of 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, has jumped 99 times from military aircraft as a paratrooper, but only once in Japan. He was as ...

FORT BENNING, Ga. (WRBL) – Hundreds of paratroopers dropped into Fort Benning, ready to brighten the holiday season for families in need. With the return of Operation Toy Drop, the U.S. Army collected ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Some relatives of D-Day veterans are getting the opportunity of a lifetime: jumping out of an airplane onto Normandy. One of those relatives is 76-year-old Fred Krause, whose dad ...

An Indiana fire department got a call from a local National Guard base with an unusual — though not unheard of — request. A paratrooper on a training jump at the Guard’s Muscatatuck Training Center ...

FORT MOORE, Ga. (WRBL) — Newly-minted paratroopers graduate from Airborne School at Fort Moore nearly every other Friday. Today’s graduation, including more than 300 soldiers, was extra special. April ...

ATHENS, Ala. (WAFF) - An employee with the city of Athens will participate in a paratrooper jump at a D-Day celebration later this year. Cody Brown, who works at Water Services for Athens Utilities, ...

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