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 ...

Leapfest, the largest military parachuting competition of its kind, was poised to take off from Quonset State Airport on Saturday morning. The chutes were packed and checked. But Mother Nature wasn't ...

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 ...

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, ...

Welcome back to the Daily Aviation for a feature on static line jumps performed by paratroopers from the C-17 and C-130 aircraft, with all the safety precautions and procedures set in place to ensure ...

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 ...

Army Airborne troops participated in a static line jump that called for them to jump out of a plane during a training course.

The chutes were packed and checked. But Mother Nature wasn't quite ready: Rhode Island's soggy morning skies had imposed a schedule delay. Ninety-seven troops waited for the opening drops of the event ...