Recently, the Secretary of the Army and the Chief of Staff of the Army informed the Senate Armed Services Committee that U.S. Army Alaska is being redesignated as the 11th Airborne Division “Angels,” ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Army in Europe deactivated one storied cavalry squadron and activated a parachute infantry battalion in its place.
Brig. Gen. Patrick Work, the incoming commander for the 82nd Airborne Division, Command Sgt. Maj. Randolph Delapena and Maj. Gen. Christopher LaNeve, the outgoing commander, conduct an inspection of ...
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 ...
GRAFENWOEHR, Germany — When a U.S. Army airborne unit was resupplied during a recent live-fire exercise in the Caucasus, there was something notably absent from the delivery vehicle: a driver. 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 ...
Sgt. 1st Class Michael Hamilton was found dead in his Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on-post apartment Oct. 4, 2021 The 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper had participated in the Kabul evacuation mission ...