A U.S. Army special operations soldier died Sept. 22 from injuries he sustained during an airborne training event.

In the grey chill just before sunrise Thursday, the steady hum of C-27 C-27J Spartan high-performance aircraft broke the ...

Airborne operations include inserting specialized infantry and paratroopers into a hot zone through parachuting. Paratroopers typically only have a few supplies, as their mission is to create ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — A number of soldiers from a Columbus-based unit of the U.S. Army Reserve are scheduled to parachute at Wright-Patterson Airfield on Friday. According to the 88th Air Base Wing, ...

Picture this: a nuclear weapon detonates high above the United States. Ground-based communication networks collapse in milliseconds. Power grids fail. Command centers go dark. In that terrifying ...

US military officials are considering deploying a combat brigade from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East to support the war with Iran and potentially take part in an operation aimed ...

JOINT FORCES TRAINING BASE LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. — Soldiers with the U.S. Army Reserve's 351st Civil Affairs Command conducted Operation Sunset Canopy Sept. 11 at Joint Forces Training Base Los ...

In addition to the American and Japanese paratroopers, airborne troops from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Singapore, the Philippines, and the United Kingdom ...

This year, Ukraine has continued to expand its use of airborne transport, naval amphibious, and ground combat drones. Last month, Ukrainian drone forces carried out an airborne operation in ...

The D-Day invasion is typically remembered for the brutal fighting on the beaches of Normandy, but the battle had already begun hours earlier. Thousands of American and British paratroopers were ...

BATARAJA, Indonesia — Paratroopers from U.S. 1st Special Forces Group, 11th Airborne Division, Tentara Nasional Indonesia (TNI) and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) jumped into the Bintang drop ...

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 ...