MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Some relatives of D-Day veterans are getting the opportunity of a lifetime: jumping out of an airplane onto Normandy. One of those relatives is 76-year-old Fred Krause, whose dad ...

NATICK, Mass. -- Paratroopers from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center, or DEVCOM SC, recently participated in Leapfest, the International Military Parachute ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Eighty years ago, some 13,000 paratroopers geared up for a jump behind enemy lines, not knowing if they would see another day. What has been called “The Longest Day,” was really ...

EXETER, R.I. – U.S. Army Airborne Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians participated in Leapfest 2025, at Exeter, Rhode Island, Aug. 2, 2025. The 767th EOD Company and 722nd EOD Company from the ...

PETERSBURG – The Pennsylvania man killed in a skydiving accident on Sunday had just completed a four-hour static line jump course through Skydive Rick’s, co-owner Kay Kuhns said Monday. The ...

Army Staff Sgt. Jared Leonard (far right) of the 1st Battalion (Airborne), 501st Infantry Regiment, a 2004 graduate of Rantoul Township High School, prepares to parachute out of a C-17 plane during a ...