It took less than a minute for each soldier to touch the ground after exiting a pair of C-130Js during training jumps launched from Aviano Air Base.

Airborne paratroopers prepare, gear up, and take to the skies for a mass tactical jump operation. Multiple C-130 aircraft release waves of soldiers over the drop zone in perfect coordination. From the ...

U.S. Army Paratroopers from the 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade conducted an airborne ...

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn Share via Email WASHINGTON — Since the inception of airborne warfare, the practice of using parachutes to insert troops into combat ...

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 ...