The Army’s Mobile Protected Firepower vehicles are in many ways smaller, lighter versions of the service’s M1 Abrams main battle tanks, and are designed to give light infantry and airborne units more ...

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 ...

The Army in Europe deactivated one storied cavalry squadron and activated a parachute infantry battalion in its place.

The 11th Airborne Division, the Army's newest major unit, will be formed June 6 out of an assortment of soldiers in Alaska. "It's long overdue; this is a compilation of years of effort to get us to a ...

Soldiers with the 101st Airborne at Fort Campbell, Kentucky are the first to receive the Army’s new Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) system this week. On Thursday, soldiers from the 1st Battalion, ...

Army football will honor the legacy of the 101st Airborne Division with their specialty uniforms for the annual showdown with archrival Navy, being held Dec. 14 at Northwest Stadium in Landover. The ...

Paratroopers of Gainey Company, Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division stand in formation during the uncasing ceremony of Gainey Company on Fort Liberty, N.C., March 29. (Spc.

As a young man, U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Connor Cozad grew up watching Band of Brothers, a 2001 HBO miniseries depicting the history of "Easy" Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry ...

Brig. Gen. Patrick Work, the incoming commander for the 82nd Airborne Division, Command Sgt. Maj. Randolph Delapena and Maj. Gen. Christopher LaNeve, the outgoing commander, conduct an inspection of ...

The Army’s command in Alaska has a new name now, to reflect its new focus on fighting in the Arctic and helping develop tactics and equipment for the region. U.S. Army Alaska officially became the 11 ...

U.S. Army Alaska will be redesignated the 11th Airborne Division with the aim of instilling a better defined “sense of identity” for soldiers as the service grapples with troop suicides in the state, ...

Allied paratroopers and glidermen had given the greatest demonstration of the power of airborne attack in the invasion of France; never before had such masses been dropped into heavily defended enemy ...