VICENZA, Italy — When Jim Matchin visits the home of his former unit, the 173rd Airborne Brigade, he sees memorials to fallen soldiers from World War II and conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Matchin, ...

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn Share via Email VICENZA, Italy – The 173rd Airborne Brigade's legacy was written in blood long before the mountains of Afghanistan ...

Jim Matchin, a Vietnam veteran with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, spoke at a building renaming ceremony on Caserma Ederle in ...

Memorial Day is a difficult day to write about and for many to think about as we remember our loved ones - ancestors and veterans - and especially those who died in a war. We remember the patriots of ...

As 173rd Airborne Brigade jumpmaster Sgt. 1st Class Thomas Harris stood at the open door of the C-130 Hercules, the roar of the engines and the rush of the wind filled his ears. He had jumped at ...

Fifty years ago, the Vietnam War ended with a chaotic scene on the roof of a Saigon building that housed employees of the United States Agency for International Development. American GIs and the staff ...

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 ...

JONESVILLE, Va. (WJHL) — The Vietnam War was the first to be shown on television, especially on the nightly news. But that only gave a glimpse of how horrific the war really was. Ed Johnston was one ...

Editor's note: The headline and story were updated to reflect that Robert Howard is the only soldier nominated three times for the Medal of Honor. Marine Dan Daly and Gen. Douglas MacArthur also were ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Chuck Macaluso, a Vietnam veteran who earned three Purple Hearts, still feels someone was looking out for him from above during the war. “Because there were a lot of people around me ...

Each small drone, compared to "steerable mortars," is made in-house with soldiers building them themselves to then train with them. By Nicholas Slayton Published May 11, 2025 8:12 PM EDT The U.S. Army ...