With sweat, grit, and plenty of good-natured banter, two combat engineers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade are preparing to ...

Sgt. Joe Harris lived a beautiful life. He sailed to earth on numerous missions as a member of the U.S. Army's first all-Black paratrooper battalion during World War II, the 555th, aptly nicknamed the ...

BELFAST, March 28 (Reuters) - The sole British soldier charged with murder over the 1972 'Bloody Sunday' killings of 13 unarmed Catholic civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland will face trial in ...

Fusilier Eddie — a member of the British Army’s parachute display team The Tigers — said it was the first time he had broken a bone in a decade of skydiving. But it has not put him off ...

The words 'parachute', 'military', 'Falklands' and ... It found he had enlisted in the British Army on November 23, 1979, but was discharged less than two weeks later - before he could even ...

For this very reason, several years ago, the Army announced that it purchased a UK-developed emergency parachute that releases “once the jumpmaster cuts the aircraft anchor line cable.” ...

A former paratrooper said today he fabricated his ... His account differs from the official British army view that only justifiable shootings were carried out against rioting gunmen and bombers ...

Army veteran Ken Spode is celebrating his 100th ... The great grandfather joined the second Regiment Paratroopers before being demobbed in 1947. He was sent to Colchester and told about how ...

At the age of 17, he enlisted in the British Army, and in the rank of corporal became a Section Commander in the Parachute Regiment. From 1978 to 1982 he served with the 3rd Battalion, Parachute ...