AVIANO, Italy — Jumping out of an airplane is a feat that demands both courage and trust. Now imagine doing it 100 times. That's exactly what 1st Sgt. Jovon Propst, Spartan Company, 54th Brigade ...

Editor’s note: This piece was first published in The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. The C-130 bounced ...

I will always be in awe of people who voluntarily climb into aircraft, soar into the heavens, then leap into the open air and trust that what is essentially a bed sheet and some rope is going to see ...

A frightening new video shared on social media underscores that being a paratrooper is inherently dangerous and jumpers are always seconds away from disaster. The 22-second TikTok video posted by U.S.

The paratrooper manages to open the reserve parachute shortly before hitting the ground. This video was filmed during the Anakonda-16 exercise in Poland. It shows a Polish paratrooper reacting to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this Jan. 26, 2020, photo, U.S. Army Spc. Parker Firth readies for a jump in Melgar, Colombia, as a fellow paratrooper helps ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. (Aug. 7, 2015) -- Many paratroopers pursue hobbies that enrich their life when they're off duty. For some, it may be as simple as dropping a fishing line in the water and waiting for ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Fort Bragg has identified the Fort Bragg paratrooper who died during a training operation Monday, according to CBS affiliate WNCN. According to the station, the 82nd Airborne ...

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 ...

Relatively few paratroopers have jumped through the remnants of an atomic bomb’s mushroom cloud and lived to tell about it, especially 61 years later. In fact, 82-year-old Al Tseu, who made such a ...