It’s not completely unheard of for military paratroopers to land, well, not where they expected, whether it be in some nearby trees or on someone’s kitchen floor. And a recent video making the rounds ...

Sgt. Maj. Keith Platt was closely watching as a stream of Army paratroopers hustled out the door of a C-130. As one of the mission’s jumpmasters, Platt stood in the final safety position, closely ...

A paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division was getting ready to jump toward the earth when a sharp-eyed jumpmaster stepped in and saved him from a potentially fatal injury — a split-second ...

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany - For U.S. paratroopers, the jumpmaster is the first person they see when they step onto the loading ramp of a military aircraft and last person they see before they step out ...

A jumpmaster's failure to properly inspect a paratrooper's static lines was determined the "single most definitive failure" that led to the parachuting death of a young female soldier, an Army ...

When Sgt. Nicholas L. Schuch exited the left door of the C-130 Hercules aircraft in the early evening of Aug. 7, he had a lot more to look forward to than making a safe, soft landing on Nijmegen Drop ...

An Army investigation into the death of Sgt. Shaina Schmigel found that a jumpmaster did not properly inspect the paratrooper's line before the jump that killed her last year, according to an Army ...

FORT MITCHELL, Al.. (WTVM) - More than 400 men and women graduated a few days ago on Fort Moore from the U-S Army Basic Airborne Course. That includes a new soldier who had wings pinned on him by his ...

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