Sgt. Maj. Keith Platt stopped a paratrooper from a potentially fatal accident during a training jump in a moment caught on video.
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 ...
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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 ...
A VIRAL video on social media showed a dramatic incident during what appeared to be a military parachute jump demonstration ...
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 ...
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 U.S. Army honor guard folds a flag to be given to relatives of Joe Harris after the World War II veteran's burial at Inglewood Park Cemetery on Saturday. (David Butow / For The Times) Sgt. Joe ...
“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 ...
I hate heights. I don’t have a phobia of tall buildings or being on planes, but I’ve just come to accept that I, as a human being without wings or hollow bones, have absolutely no right to be in the ...
The Malaysian Army has confirmed that a soldier suffered a cracked neck bone during a parachuting training accident at Padang ...
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 ...