Sgt. Maj. Keith Platt stopped a paratrooper from a potentially fatal accident during a training jump in a moment caught on video.

Airborne units are typically the first American forces to reach a crisis zone, which means their equipment must prepare them ...

Vince Speranza, 98, jumped from the sky once more on Saturday more than 75 years after the veteran paratrooper made training jumps in the final days of World War II. Organizers said Speranza, of the ...

From airborne drops over Europe to the hands of collectors today, the WWII paratrooper helmet is an artifact steeped in history. In this video, we restore and repaint a paratrooper helmet, walking ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. (Aug. 7, 2015) -- Many paratroopers pursue hobbies that enrich their life when they're off duty. For some, it may be as simple as dropping a fishing line in the water and waiting for ...

The paratrooper manages to open the reserve parachute shortly before hitting the ground. This video was filmed during the Anakonda-16 exercise in Poland. It shows a Polish paratrooper reacting to a ...

A single soldier taking out a heavily-armed tank on their own is usually the stuff of Hollywood, but it’s become a relatively common occurrence in the war in Ukraine. This is probably best captured in ...

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“I look at the old newspaper articles, look at what’s the information available online and kind of try to run with that,” Amelia Pearn told Dateline. “Sometimes it’s very helpful. Sometimes not so ...

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 ...

Like many veterans of America’s wars, Mike Chamberlain’s father, Carl, rarely spoke of his time serving as a paratrooper during the European campaign of World War II. In fact, the Auburn resident ...

Fort Bragg, NC -- An Army paratrooper entered a plea of guilty Thursday to charges of engaging in sex acts on a military-themed gay pornography website, after a judge denied a request to dismiss the ...