Army leaders are confident that reclassifying 22,000 paid parachutist jobs will improve the readiness of paratroopers. The ...

“For the last three fiscal years, the 82nd Airborne per capita is jumping less than four times — somewhere in the two-and-a-half to three jumps per paratrooper. That doesn’t even meet ...

Wallace was a paratrooper in the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division, and was among those who parachuted into Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944 - D-Day. The Allied landings in Nazi-occupied France ...