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 ...

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 ...

PETERSBURG – The Pennsylvania man killed in a skydiving accident on Sunday had just completed a four-hour static line jump course through Skydive Rick’s, co-owner Kay Kuhns said Monday. The ...

Whether on a special ops jump from 25,000 feet or with hundreds of paratroopers filling the sky, U.S. troops use a wide range of parachutes. By Joshua Skovlund Updated Aug 12, 2024 10:05 AM EDT ...

Those familiar jump commands echoed from the Greatest Generation Aircraft C-47, Southern Cross, over the skies above Corsicana Municipal Airport in Corsicana, Texas during the hot and humid last week ...

A group of mostly junior Army infantrymen and noncommissioned officers sat in a staging area Thursday, waiting to put on their parachutes for a nighttime jump into the Holland Drop Zone at Fort Bragg, ...

The chutes were packed and checked. But Mother Nature wasn't quite ready: Rhode Island's soggy morning skies had imposed a schedule delay. Ninety-seven troops waited for the opening drops of the event ...

FORT BENNING, Ga. — The call goes out, “hook up!” The airborne students all repeat in unison, “hook up!” as they attach the static line to the anchor line cable in the C-130 aircraft. They check the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A video captured a jumpmaster acting as the flight ‘safety’ grabbing a soldier whose static line had wrapped around his neck. A ...