The U.S. Army might have perfected the use of airborne troopers, but it wasn't the first branch to try out the tactic. In 1927, 12 Marines jumped from a transport plane flying over the Anacostia area ...

NASMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "In Britain they were known as The Parachute Regiment, but their German enemies christened them ...

In recent weeks, I have penned multiple articles on U.S. Armed Forces’ elite Special Operations units, from the Army’s Delta Force and Special Forces (SF, AKA “Green Berets”), to the Navy’s SEAL Team ...

Military staff at an Army base were mistakenly put on alert over a “Lee Rigby-style” threat to behead a paratrooper. Security was tightened at the Colchester garrison, where Parachute Regiment ...

Prince Charles’s first attempt at skydiving almost fifty years ago definitely left a lasting impression. The Prince of Wales visited the Merville Barracks in Colchester, England on Tuesday to present ...

A British soldier killed on duty in Ukraine has been named by the Ministry of Defence. Lance Corporal George Hooley, 28, of the Parachute Regiment, died in a “tragic accident” while observing ...