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Several bear encounters interrupt US troops’ parachute training in northern Japan

The soldiers jumped into Narashino Training Area in Chiba prefecture and Ojojibara Maneuver Area in Miyagi prefecture, both ...
SOFREP on MSN

Who Is the 11th Airborne Division and Why Was It Put on Alert for Minnesota

The reactivated 11th Airborne Division, Alaska-based and built for Arctic warfighting, was placed on standby for Minnesota ...
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101st Airborne speeds training attack to beat snowstorm during major exercise

Moving a division of soldiers out of the field and lining up the training scenario to make it work properly were huge efforts ...
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Airborne soldiers sharpen combat readiness with SLAM drills

U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 173rd Combat Engineer Company-Airborne, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 173rd ...
OPB

Event in Pendleton honors nation’s first Black paratrooper battalion, the Triple Nickles

In this photo from 1945, paratroopers of the 555th Parachute Infantry climb into their parachute harnesses before boarding a plane of the First Troop Carrier Command. The C-47 would drop the airborne ...
The Bulletin

Pendleton event to honor all-Black battalion of WWII paratroopers

PENDLETON — A group of former U.S. Army paratroopers plan to honor the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, an all-Black unit from World War II that was based at Pendleton Field, where the Eastern ...
OPB

Event in Pendleton honors the Triple Nickles, the nation’s first all-Black paratrooper battalion

In this photo from 1945, a C-47 of Troop Carrier Command carries parachutists of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion to the scene of a remote fire in Wallowa forest, Oregon. An event in Pendleton ...