FORT BENNING, Ga. -- Fort Benning, birthplace of the Army's Airborne, will observe National Airborne Day Aug. 16 with a series of parachute jumps, followed by a graduation ceremony of the nation's ...

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 ...

U.S. Army Airborne School students do a combat jump April 26 onto Fryar Drop Zone. The students must complete five total jumps from 1,250 feet to earn their wings from the Fort Benning school. The ...

FORT RUCKER, Ala. — Sgt. 1st Class Riley B. Watts III is the first sergeant for A Company 1-14th Aviation Regiment, the Army’s largest AH-64 Apache helicopter company, but his interest in becoming a ...

Cadet Laura R. Condyles, USAR, daughter of George and Harriet Condyles of Mechanicsville has completed the US Army Airborne School at Fort Benning, GA. on September 5, 2008. Cadet Condyles completed ...