Army Aviation developed rapidly during World War I with significant advancements in aircraft types, weapons, ordnance, instruments and flight gear, including parachutes. Initially, parachutes were ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - About 200 members of the Nebraska National Guard made their final parachute jump last Friday, as the 2nd Battalion, 134th Infantry Regiment’s airborne operations came to an end.

On March 24, 1945, more than 16,000 Allied paratroopers dropped into a storm of enemy fire on the eastern bank of the Rhine River. German antiaircraft guns tore through a column of transport planes ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — A number of soldiers from a Columbus-based unit of the U.S. Army Reserve are scheduled to parachute at Wright-Patterson Airfield on Friday. According to the 88th Air Base Wing, ...

In his first address to his Soldiers, Maj. Gen. William C. Lee of the 101st Airborne Division declared prophetically in General Order Number 5, dated Aug. 19, 1942, that "the 101st Airborne Division, ...

National Airborne Day coincides with the Airborne & Special Operations Museum's 25th anniversary and a Liberty Tree commemoration. A ceremony marking the 250th anniversary of the Liberty Tree will be ...

Strengthening Surveillance Capabilities The United States is intensifying its airborne surveillance efforts over the Middle ...

It’s built for a doomsday scenario. The U.S. Air Force E-4B “Nightwatch” – known as the “Doomsday Plane” -- can be in the air at a moment’s notice during a national emergency. There it can serve as ...

Retired Gen. James Lindsay, whose nearly four decades of distinguished service in the U.S. Army and efforts in his retirement to bring the Special Operations Museum to downtown Fayetteville, ...

Special operations units have unique skills, the kind needed for specialized combat and missions. Belarus’ special operations units have their own take on what that entails. Aug. 2 is Airborne Forces ...