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

Paid parachute positions include paratroopers in airborne units as well as soldiers in other staff units. Those soldiers who are coded as paid parachutist positions will still receive jump pay and ...

U.S. paratroopers had a liquid drop zone this week, with Lake Garda serving as the latest scene of water airborne operations ...

A paratrooper on a training jump at the Guard’s Muscatatuck Training ... was assigned to the guard’s 2nd Battalion, 134th Airborne Infantry Regiment. He had jumped from a UH-60 Black Hawk ...

In October, Pittman had the opportunity to follow in his grandfather’s airborne footsteps. For a week, he did paratrooper jump training ... “When I got my wings, I actually broke down and ...