A recent report recommends U.S. Special Operations Command take various actions to reduce high-risk training injuries and deaths, which account for the bulk of non-combat accidents. Released this ...

A Camp Lejeune Marine who was killed during a training exercise last week died as a result of a parachute incident, the service confirmed Wednesday. Sgt. Colin Arslanbas, with the 24th Marine ...

Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi on Sunday inspected the annual New Year military drill by the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force 1st Airborne Brigade at its Narashino base in Funabashi, Chiba ...

Okinawa’s governor has asked for a halt to parachute training at the Air Force base on the prefecture’s main island and for a range of other measures aimed at curbing the impact of U.S. forces ...

For most military jobs, training begins in the classroom. Eventually, theory gives way to hands-on experience. But when that experience involves jumping out of an airplane, the stakes - and the risks ...

YUMA, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) — Arizona is home to one of the best army testing centers. Yuma Proving Ground is known for parachute testing and medical training. YPG’s Airborne Test Force conducted a medical ...

FORT MOORE, Ga.− Parachute riggers of the 1st Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade, pack the parachutes used daily in airborne training. Recently they ...

PORTERVILLE, California (KFSN) — A U.S. Navy Sailor died in a parachute training mission out of the Porterville airport in Tulare County last Thursday. Their identity has yet to be released as ...

Master Sgt. Michael Ty Kettenhofen was the tie that held those around him together, his brother said. Whether it was his four siblings, his parents, his friends or his Army brothers in the elite ...

Parachutes opened recently in the skies above Misawa Air Base for the first time in 15 years. It was part of combined training the Air Force hopes to conduct monthly at the airfield in northern Japan.

Few younger people truly got to know World War II like the cast of "Band of Brothers." Not only was the show based on a meticulously researched history of "Easy" Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th ...