DENVER (KDVR) — Sgt. James Dassinger was a Vietnam War paratrooper. It was his job to jump out of aircraft and into harm’s way. How do you honor that kind of soldier? It’s something his daughter Cindy ...

One paratrooper was killed, and at least one other soldier was injured during a training parachute jump on Sept. 13 at the Army’s Joint Readiness Training Center in Louisiana, Task & Purpose has ...

A Washington state BASE jumper died Sunday after an issue with his parachute and falling over 600 feet to the ground, authorities announced. The man, 47-year-old Elliot Barstow, was BASE jumping ...

WASHINGTON — A contingent of U.S. lawmakers from the House of Representatives made a commemorative parachute jump Friday at Normandy marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day and the historic assault that ...

Task & Purpose photo composite. On Sept. 12, 2024, Army Spc. Matthew Perez made his way to the ramp of a C-17 and prepared to take part in a parachute jump at the Joint Readiness Training Center at ...

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 ...

Wearing a World War II uniform and carrying mementos from two members of the Greatest Generation, U.S. Rep. Keith Self of Texas will solo skydive Friday, and a bipartisan congressional delegation will ...

After Vincent Compeau's death in November, his family asked U.S. Sen. John Hoeven to help fulfill his final wish to take one last jump over Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Lt. Col. Eric Spicer, an Army ...

As Americans continue to recognize the fallen members of D-Day from World War II, Congressman Jason Crow, an Army combat veteran who served in the 82nd Airborne Division and 75th Ranger Regiment, ...

Associated Press Sunday, June 2, 2024 11:00 a.m. | Sunday, June 2, 2024 11:00 a.m. CARENTAN-LES-MARAIS, France — Parachutists jumping from World War II-era planes hurled themselves Sunday into now ...

Parachutists hurled themselves from World War II-era planes into the now peaceful Normandy skies where war once raged, kicking off a week of ceremonies to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day. On Sunday ...