Every year, about 15,000 students perform five jumps from a live aircraft before graduating from the United States Army’s Airborne School, each depending on a parachute to get them safely to the ...

Useful for seizing isolated air fields deep behind enemy lines, which can then be used to receive and deploy more troops and armaments, the tactic of mass parachute jumps was used successfully by ...

GARDINER, N.Y. – A skydiver from New York City died after crashing to the ground without his parachute, state police said Monday. William McCartin, 40, boarded an airplane at Skydive the Ranch in ...

The 75th Ranger Regiment should review its oversight of civilian-contracted parachute packers and implement several procedural changes following a March 2019 free-fall accident that killed a seasoned ...

THE Ministry of Defence (Mindef) released a statement today through The Singapore Army Facebook page in response to a viral Facebook post about SAF parachutes being outsourced to “foreign” “PRC ...

New York City skydiver William A. McCartin was found dead in a parking lot near Poughkeepsie after jumping out of a plane. Now, investigators want to know where his parachute pack is, and why it ...