The Airborne and Special Operations Test Directorate (ABNSOTD) at Fort Bragg, North Carolina -- whose lineage traces directly back to the original Parachute Test Platoon of 1940 -- is home to the ...

One paratrooper was killed, and at least one other soldier was injured during a training parachute jump on Sept. 13 at the Army’s Joint Readiness Training Center in Louisiana, Task & Purpose has ...

Paratroopers of 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, rehearsed an in-flight parachute rigging scenario to prepare for intercontinental combat missions, Nov 22-23, 2011.

U.S. Army Paratroopers assigned to Crow Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division execute a brigade-level live fire exercise at ...

In 2001, Staff Sgt. Alexander Gessner, an 82nd Airborne jumpmaster, died after his reserve parachute deployed inside a C-130 plane and forced him out the door during a nighttime jump.

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Since joining the military in 2005, Master Sgt. Michael Mabry has jumped out of military aircraft more than a hundred times. Yet a jump in January is what the 45-year-old ...

The House members dressed in khaki World War II uniforms, bearing patches of the 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions, standard-issue paratrooper helmets and boots of the same period.

An estimated 800 paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team will parachute into Estonia Friday night, weather permitting. About half will make the 11-hour flight ...

The Fort Bragg division is best known for its parachute jumps in World War II. Today, its specialty is rapid deployments - with or without parachutes. The 82nd Airborne Division turns 100 years ...

The 82nd Airborne uses the T-11 parachute, while 3rd Special Forces Group uses the MC-6 parachute, ... Sgt. Maj. Towns made sure he was the one who inspected his son's parachute before the jump.

FORT BRAGG - For seven years, including four tours in Iraq, Maj. Andy Ulrich has served with the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, a storied unit trained to parachute into battle at a moment’s ...