Some Army Paratroopers Receive Pay Raise -- Funded by Cuts to Training Jumps The Pentagon announced that it will increase hazardous duty incentive pay for paratroopers, commonly known as jump pay. The...
How Normandy Remembers the Only US Military Chaplain Killed in Action on D-Day Catholic chaplain Capt. Ignatius Maternowski was immortalized in 2021 with a stained-glass window depicting his image, his...
Silence Was My Father’s Fortress. I Shared It for a Time Until Poetry Set Me Free. When I came back from Iraq, I carried with me the images of landscapes littered with ruined bodies. To deal with the stew of...
Fort Liberty Soldier Gets Booted After Indictment for Weapons Trafficking, Lying About White Nationalist Ties A paratrooper at Fort Liberty, North Carolina, who was indicted last week on charges of weapons trafficking and lying about...
The All-Airborne 'Remembrance Bowl' in Normandy Should Be a Bigger Deal Than the Army-Navy Game In May 2018, the newly renamed "Remembrance Bowl," sponsored by Patton Legacy Sports, was added to the list of D-Day...
WWII Legend Vince Speranza's Extended Lyrics to the Paratrooper Anthem 'Blood on the Risers' For some, the lyrics to "Blood on the Risers" might be a little disconcerting.
Vigil at 'Iron Mike': Paratroopers Pay Tribute to Fallen Comrades at Iconic Normandy Memorial John Brown was 20 years old when he joined the Army Air Forces in 1947. World War II was over, but he still wanted to serve...
A Paratrooper Started D-Day by Hanging from His Chute on a Church Pvt. John Steele's unit parachuted in the wrong place, while Steele himself was unlucky enough to get his chute caught on a...
How You Can Help the 'Band of Brothers' Cast Recreate Easy Company's Drop into Normandy 80 Years Later Donations to the nonprofit event will cover the cost of the "Placid Lassie" C-47 Skytrain, equipment for the jump and...
The First Parachute Jump from a Fixed-Wing Aircraft Was a Terrifying Risk for Everyone Involved U.S. troops have been jumping out of perfectly good airplanes for more than 80 years, but a significant amount of training...
Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance As President Donald Trump viciously attacked his perceived political foes, he whipped up boos from the gathered troops...
Deep Workforce Cuts at VA, Pentagon Backed by Republican Spending Bills House Republicans are on track to allow job cuts at the Pentagon and Department of Veterans Affairs to proceed in the annual...
Army Officials Pushed Back on Pop-Up MAGA Shop Ahead of Fort Bragg Trump Speech Ahead of President Donald Trump's rally-style appearance at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on Tuesday, Army officials raised...
Guard Soldiers Deployed in Trump's LA Crackdown Aren't Getting Paid Yet According to more than a dozen Guardsmen across four units who spoke to Military.com, none has received formal activation...
Pentagon Encourages Troops to Join Immigration Enforcement, Border Security Job Training Program Hegseth ordered the Pentagon to "prioritize and broadly advertise" opportunities troops who are nearing separation or...
