It’s built for a doomsday scenario. The U.S. Air Force E-4B “Nightwatch” – known as the “Doomsday Plane” -- can be in the air at a moment’s notice during a national emergency. There it can serve as ...

National Airborne Day coincides with the Airborne & Special Operations Museum's 25th anniversary and a Liberty Tree commemoration. A ceremony marking the 250th anniversary of the Liberty Tree will be ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - About 200 members of the Nebraska National Guard made their final parachute jump last Friday, as the 2nd Battalion, 134th Infantry Regiment’s airborne operations came to an end.

Sierra Nevada Corp. plans to turn five Boeing 747-8 aircraft into the Air Force's new fleet of Survivable Airborne Operations Center planes, which would allow the president to direct forces during a ...

BATARAJA, Indonesia — Paratroopers from U.S. Army's 1st Special Forces Group, 11th Airborne Division, Tentara Nasional Indonesia and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force jumped into the Bintang drop zone ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — A number of soldiers from a Columbus-based unit of the U.S. Army Reserve are scheduled to parachute at Wright-Patterson Airfield on Friday. According to the 88th Air Base Wing, ...

Airborne units are typically the first American forces to reach a crisis zone, which means their equipment must prepare them for immediate contact the moment they land Units like the 82nd Airborne ...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. – In a display of cooperation and capability, Soldiers from the Colorado Army National Guard and the Jordanian Armed Forces recently conducted a joint airborne operation in Watkins, ...

In addition to the American and Japanese paratroopers, airborne troops from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Singapore, the Philippines, and the United Kingdom ...

The U.S. Army is restructuring its airborne forces, leading to pay changes for thousands of parachutist positions. According to a report from the American military newspaper Stars and Stripes, an ...