One of the harder puzzles to solve with the Army’s new approach to total fitness is how to improve spiritual fitness or identify a soldier’s sense of meaning or purpose in their work. That “meaning” ...

A soldier tests the controls on a small drone at the 173rd Airborne Brigade's drone lab. The U.S. Army’s rapid response unit in Europe is working quickly to build out its own arsenal of small, agile ...

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn Share via Email The 173rd Airborne Brigade’s Leader Legacy Series is keeping history alive, one veteran at a time. On November 13, ...

VICENZA, Italy — When Jim Matchin visits the home of his former unit, the 173rd Airborne Brigade, he sees memorials to fallen soldiers from World War II and conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Matchin, ...

Back to U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa VICENZA, Italy – U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade’s Bayonet Innovation Team (BIT), alongside counterparts from the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - A new monument honoring some of the Army’s finest paratroopers, nicknamed the sky soldiers, is now sitting at Fort Jackson National Cemetery. That monument, honoring the 173rd ...

IRBIL, Iraq, March 31 -- Commanders of the 173rd Airborne Brigade scouted potential base locations in this key Kurdish city today, and said moving the 2,000-man unit here from Bashur airfield would ...

CAMISANO VICENTINO, Italy — St. Nicholas took on the guise of American “sky soldiers” ahead of his usual feast day, as members of the Army’s famed 173rd Airborne Brigade became toy distributors for ...

A U.S. Army paratrooper with the 173rd Airborne Brigade is missing after allegedly being put under 24-hour watch and escaping from a base in Italy. The paratrooper, a private first class assigned to ...

Four years ago as a student at Helena High School, Jake Leaf took flak for the way he dressed. Now, Leaf is taking flak of a different sort, poised with the U.S. Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade in ...