Paratroopers crawl out from under their ponchos during an exercise at Fort Polk, La., in the early morning in 2012.
AI:This archival photo captures paratroopers performing tactical maneuvers by emerging from under ponchos during a morning training exercise conducted at Fort Polk, Louisiana, in 2012. Such drills are fundamental to maintaining combat readiness and tactical discipline within airborne units.Open
More than 700 paratroopers assigned to the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 11th Airborne Division, executed a historic company live-fire exercise at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska.
The British military took critical medical supplies to Tristan da Cunha, a tiny British archipelago where authorities have identified a suspected hantavirus case.
U.S. infantry soldiers and U.K. paratroopers prepared for the force-on-force phase of Project Flytrap 5.0, an exercise that integrates autonomous and unmanned ground vehicles, first-person view drones and counter-unmanned aerial systems on a simulated battlefield in Europe.
Paratroopers assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division recently took part in the inaugural training event with the Bumblebee V2 counter-drone system, marking the first operational test of the prototypes purchased by Joint Interagency Task Force 401 earlier this year.
U.S. Marines and paratroopers who could be sent into combat in Iran are conducting CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear) safety drills at their bases in Europe and aboard ship as they sail to the [...]
The U.S. is sending thousands of paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne to the Middle East. And, congressional Republicans present Democrats with a new deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
Nearly a month into the war with Iran, the Trump administration is keeping its options open: it has drafted a 15-point plan to end the war with Iran and ordering thousands of paratroopers to deploy in the Middle East.