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 ...

501st Parachute Infantry Regiment. "As the primary stewards of the Airborne legacy, it's only fitting that today one of the battalions of the very first parachute infantry regiments activated in ...

3 in Helmand province. 2nd Lt. Darryn D. Andrews, 34, of Dallas; 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, based at Fort ...

Rice earned his paratrooper wings and became a member of one of the most exclusive and demanding regiments of that time—the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) of the 101st Airborne Division ...

The U.S. Army soldier killed this week in a vehicle incident at Fort Bragg that also injured three others was identified Friday. Spc. Luis Herrera, 23, was a paratrooper assigned to the 82nd ...

The 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment said in a statement that 87 jumpers landed in trees next to the drop zone. Early Thursday, there were four jumpers getting help from the fire ...

In the afternoon, the 4th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment was deactivated and replaced by the 2nd Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment. The 2nd Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment ...

Total number of U.S. military deaths and names of the U.S. troops killed recently in the Iraq war, as announced by the Pentagon: 3,427 Fatalities In hostile actions: 2,804 In non-hostile actions ...

One soldier had to undergo surgery for a broken back but is “expected to recover well,” according to a Facebook post from the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment. All of the ...

He was assigned to Company H, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division as a replacement in November 1944 while the unit licked its wounds from the devastating failure of ...

The ceremony marked the inactivation of 4th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment and commemorated the activation of the 2nd Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment. “As the primary stewards of ...