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.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - A new monument honoring some of the Army’s finest paratroopers, nicknamed the sky soldiers, is now sitting at Fort Jackson National Cemetery. That monument, honoring the 173rd ...
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The US Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade, known as the “Sky Soldiers,” has conducted what officials say is the first test in the United States of a first-person-view (FPV) drone shooting down another ...
Each small drone, compared to "steerable mortars," is made in-house with soldiers building them themselves to then train with them. By Nicholas Slayton Published May 11, 2025 8:12 PM EDT The U.S. Army ...
Grafenwoehr, Germany, Aug. 13, 2019: Soldiers maintain a 105 mm 119-A3 howitzer during an exercise in Grafenwoehr, Germany. The 173rd Airborne Brigade conducted a live-fire exercise this week to ...
Paratroopers assigned to 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade prepare for the unforgiving crucial that is land combat through realistic air assault live fire ...