As airborne operations shrink across the country, largely due to budgetary restrictions and the cost to train paratroopers, ...

U.S. Army Paratroopers assigned to 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, conduct airborne operation ...

The A-10 Thunderbolt II has been serving in the Maryland Air National Guard since 1979, flying both domestically and overseas ...

Soldiers of the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, are coming home over the next few weeks after a ...

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 ...

Soldiers of the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, known as the “Wings of Destiny,” are returning to Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

CENTENNIAL, Colo. – In a display of cooperation and capability, Soldiers from the Colorado Army National Guard and the Jordanian Armed Forces recently conducted a joint airborne operation in Watkins, ...

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

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 ...

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