Memorial Day is a difficult day to write about and for many to think about as we remember our loved ones - ancestors and veterans - and especially those who died in a war. We remember the patriots of ...

Jim Matchin, a Vietnam veteran with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, spoke at a building renaming ceremony on Caserma Ederle in ...

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 ...

AVIANO, Italy — More than 100 female paratroopers from six battalions of the Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade stationed in Germany and Italy joined up at Aviano Air Base for an airborne operation made up ...

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn Share via Email VICENZA, Italy – On March 26, 2003, during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, 1,000 paratroopers or “Sky Soldiers” from the ...

A U.S. Army paratrooper with the 173rd Airborne Brigade is missing after allegedly being put under 24-hour watch and escaping from a base in Italy. The paratrooper, a private first class assigned to ...

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 ...

VICENZA, Italy — Soldiers with the U.S. Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade are fresh off an exercise in Croatia, during which they were treated to a new thrill. It was the first time the brigade had fired ...

Return to U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SETAF-AF) VICENZA, Italy – Paratroopers assigned to the 173rd Brigade Support Battalion (173rd BSB), 173rd Airborne Brigade were announced as ...