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 ...

Welcome back to the Daily Aviation for a new documentary video about static line made by US paratroopers from Boeing C-17. Static line is a parachuting method used to open parachutes automatically, ...

Leapfest, the largest military parachuting competition of its kind, was poised to take off from Quonset State Airport on Saturday morning. The chutes were packed and checked. But Mother Nature wasn't ...

U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to the 31st Rescue Squadron spent the week at Yokota Air Base, Japan Aug. 22–29, 2025, ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Eighty years ago, some 13,000 paratroopers geared up for a jump behind enemy lines, not knowing if they would see another day. What has been called “The Longest Day,” was really ...

UTAPHAO AIRFIELD, Thailand - U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Regiment 3 and Royal Thai Marines conducted bilateral aerial delivery training here Feb. 8 during Exercise Cobra Gold 2009. Cobra Gold ...

STORCK BARRACKS, Germany (09/10/2021) — He felt the nervousness in his gut as he prepared to jump out of an aircraft for the first time. It was late, around two in the morning. They were flying 1,000 ...

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 ...

Pfc. Jean Cruz De Leon, 20, of Marrero, Louisana, died from a parachute malfunction during training at Fort Benning, Georgia. (Army) The 82nd Airborne Division released the name Thursday of its ...

A paratrooper recovers his parachute during an exercise at North Carolina's Fort Bragg in February 2019. (Spc. Darius Knight-Elliott/Army) An 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper was killed during a ...