The biggest stories of the day delivered to your inbox.

During the podcast, Anderson said the 22,000 soldiers will still keep their jobs and be reclassified as non-parachutist positions, meaning they won’t receive jump pay, but still have opportunities to ...

The Army is scaling back 20,000 paid parachutist positions to prioritize limited airborne resources for soldiers who would ...

In an honorable and dignified ceremony marked by historical significance, former President John F. Kennedy was officially ...

Major Julian Cook, 3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne, WW2 (1944). Played by Robert Redford, A Bridge Too Far.

For comparison, Anderson said that less than 13,000 soldiers with the 101st and 82nd airborne divisions were dropped into Normandy ahead of the World War II invasion. He said that having 56,000 ...

Historian Donovan (Shoot for the Moon) provides a straight-shooting account of how parachutists and gliders from the 82nd Airborne slipped behind Axis lines in Normandy just before the start of ...

Lt. Gen. Christopher LaNeve passed command of Eighth Army to Brig. Gen. Sean Crockett, his deputy, who will serve in an ...