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Brig. Gen. Michal Strzelecki, the commander of Poland's 6th Airborne Brigade, told BI that he's focused on light infantry ...
The 3rd Infantry Division is moving soldiers into specialized teams focused on drones and electronic warfare threats.
Carl Strock served six years in the division, first as a scout platoon leader, then as a company executive officer and assistant operations officer in the 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry ...
In this photo from 1945, a C-47 of Troop Carrier Command carries parachutists of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion to the scene of a remote fire in Wallowa forest, Oregon. An event in ...
Task & Purpose checked and learned that the U.S. Army Infantry School dropped the 5-mile run as a graduation requirement for the Basic Airborne Course in 2018, according to Col. Scott P.
FORT MOORE, Ga.− Parachute riggers of the 1st Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade, pack the parachutes used daily in airborne training. Recently ...
For Operation Urgent Fury, he was attached to the 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment tasked to provide air and artillery support. The unit, he said, was one that stayed the longest ...
Payton was part of the 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment. “This is the best place to be to train for your job, and our job was to conduct force entry into any country around the ...
506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. At 19 years old, he had trained for that moment since joining the Army in 1942. His unit's objective was to capture two bridges and keep the Germans from sending ...
The Army will redesignate its current Stryker element in Alaska to a light infantry brigade amid the formation of the 11th Airborne Division on Monday, according to a source with direct knowledge ...
Staff Sgt. Seth Michael Plant served with the 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, according to U.S. Army Alaska. Plant died Tuesday as he and two others were preparing for upcoming ...
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