Whether on a special ops jump from 25,000 feet or with hundreds of paratroopers filling the sky, U.S. troops use a wide range of parachutes. By Joshua Skovlund Updated Aug 12, 2024 10:05 AM EDT ...

A Marine was killed in a parachute incident that occurred Monday at the Multi-Mission Parachute Course in Coolidge, Arizona. Because of the accident, the Corps has suspended all double-bag static line ...

Welcome back to the Daily Aviation for a new documentary video about static line made by US paratroopers from Boeing C-17. Static line is a parachuting method used to open parachutes automatically, ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- Knuckles bloody, hands red and swelling, one Soldier sits alone. His eyes are closed but he isn't asleep. He is shadow boxing, his tired hands precisely moving against an unseen ...

A jumpmaster's failure to properly inspect a paratrooper's static lines was determined the "single most definitive failure" that led to the parachuting death of a young female soldier, an Army ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- Okinawa-based Special Operations Soldiers traveled here to support an airdrop certification test of the RA-1 Parachute System in the Double Bag Static Line configuration with the C ...

A Fort Bragg paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division died during an airborne training operation Monday.Officials said Spec. Abigail Jenks, 21, of Gansevoort, New York, was a fire specialist, ...