NATICK, Mass. - Four parachute riggers assigned to the Combat Capabilities Development Command, or DEVCOM, Soldier Center recently competed in Leapfest 2025, the annual International Military ...

The U.S. Army is celebrating its 250 th birthday with daylong festivities and a major military parade this weekend in Washington, D.C., where attendees will see imposing tanks and aircraft, an army ...

FORT LEE, Va. -- The U.S. Army Quartermaster School’s Aerial Delivery and Field Services Department dedicated one of its parachute-packing classrooms July 21 in memory of a XVIII Airborne Corps ...

Sgt. 1st Class Joshua Evans and Sgt. 1st Class Justin Brenner of the U.S. Army Parachute Team open the Pueblo Air Show on 27 Sept. 2025. The jump is part of several jumps at the Pueblo Air Show in ...

Leapfest, the largest static-line military parachuting competition in the world, is set to kick off in Rhode Island on Aug. 2, 2025. Paratroopers from around the world, including Belgium, Oman, and ...

On Sept. 12, 2024, Army Spc. Matthew Perez made his way to the ramp of a C-17 and prepared to take part in a parachute jump at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Johnson, Louisiana. Perez, ...

TANNER, Ala. (TENNESSEE VALLEY LIVING) - The US Army Golden Knights are spreading smiles around the country by putting on gravity-defying shows in the sky! The parachute team made a special appearance ...

SCOTLAND COUNTY, N.C (WMBF) - A Golden Knights paratrooper was airlifted to the hospital during training in Laurinburg. According to Army representatives, one of the U.S. Army Parachute Team members ...

Some parachutes feature openings or holes, which aid in stability and control. Without a means for some air to escape through the top of the canopy, wind could force the parachute to rock ...