This video covers the U.S. Army Airborne Jump School at Fort Benning, Georgia. Open to service members from all branches, this intensive three-week course trains students to master the fundamentals of ...

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 ...

AL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq - Private 1st Class Matthew Fram did not expect to make his first jump after airborne school with 82nd Airborne Division in Iraq. The chemical specialist with Battery B, 3rd ...

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 ...

The Army is reducing the number of soldiers who will be paid parachutists. Since World War II, the number of soldiers the Army has trained to be able to jump into combat has more than doubled. But as ...

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 ...