In the 1950s the Navy and Army worked on small VTOL machines to make troops go airborne. They worked, just not well enough.

The 11th Airborne Division, the Army's newest major unit, will be formed June 6 out of an assortment of soldiers in Alaska. "It's long overdue; this is a compilation of years of effort to get us to a ...

The Army will recode 20,000 parachutist jobs in a major airborne restructuring. Here, an Army paratrooper assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade recovers his parachute in Pordenone, Italy, on March 20 ...

Enduring hardship is intrinsic to life for the few who serve in the Infantry. Tackling demanding challenges and persevering ...

Paratroopers of Gainey Company, Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division stand in formation during the uncasing ceremony of Gainey Company on Fort Liberty, N.C., March 29. (Spc.

This article was published as part of a content-sharing agreement between Army Times and The Fayetteville Observer. FORT LIBERTY — The 18th Airborne Corps and Fort Liberty thanked its outgoing senior ...

The Army’s Mobile Protected Firepower vehicles are in many ways smaller, lighter versions of the service’s M1 Abrams main battle tanks, and are designed to give light infantry and airborne units more ...

As a young man, U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Connor Cozad grew up watching Band of Brothers, a 2001 HBO miniseries depicting the history of "Easy" Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry ...

Allied paratroopers and glidermen had given the greatest demonstration of the power of airborne attack in the invasion of France; never before had such masses been dropped into heavily defended enemy ...

Army football will honor the legacy of the 101st Airborne Division with their specialty uniforms for the annual showdown with archrival Navy, being held Dec. 14 at Northwest Stadium in Landover. The ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Army Staff Sergeant Al Fleming knew he was destined to serve his country. After all, his father was a Marine who fought in Korea. His stepfather and all of his uncles were also ...