When the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment was activated at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, on 15 November 1942, it began life with a rich airborne heritage. The famous test platoon, the prime ancestor of all ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — An evolved version of the iconic U.S. military’s Jeep was tested in North Carolina at Fort Bragg and is now in production in North Carolina near Charlotte. The 82nd Airborne ...

Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division and other units are headed to the southern border to relieve troops who have spent months carrying out security operations, the Army said this week. The fall ...

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — Roughly 200 Airborne Infantry Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) are running the Next Generation Squad Weapon system through its paces at Fort Campbell from ...

A few days into the spring of 1994, paratroopers waited for an airborne training operation on the tarmac at then-Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina. It was March 23, and the skies above the ...

Two weeks before the D-Day operation on June 6, 1944, the 101st Airborne Division (aka "The Screaming Eagles") was getting ready for battle when they realized that they needed a quick way to get the ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- During Black History Month, ABC11 takes a closer look at the first all-Black airborne unit in U.S. history. The 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion often referred to as the ...

The Soviet Union created the world’s first airborne force by imagining infantry that could strike deep behind enemy lines ...