Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DENVER (KDVR) — Sgt. James Dassinger was a Vietnam War paratrooper. It was his job to jump out of aircraft and into harm’s way.

One paratrooper was killed, and at least one other soldier was injured during a training parachute jump on Sept. 13 at the Army’s Joint Readiness Training Center in Louisiana, Task & Purpose has ...

New record: Oldest tandem parachute jump (female) – Rut Linnéa Ingegärd Larsson at the age of 103 years and 259 days. She first tried paragliding at the age of 90 ...

Jumping out of a plane is certainly a memorable way to celebrate a 100th birthday.Newly minted centenarian Tom Rice, who served in World War II as a paratrooper, wanted to recreate a parachute jump he ...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 15 - Premier Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday said that she parachute jumps every day and can't make mistakes citing the famous story of a US airman who bailed out over Vietnam, Charles ...

Task & Purpose photo composite. On Sept. 12, 2024, Army Spc. Matthew Perez made his way to the ramp of a C-17 and prepared to take part in a parachute jump at the Joint Readiness Training Center at ...

WASHINGTON — A contingent of U.S. lawmakers from the House of Representatives made a commemorative parachute jump Friday at Normandy marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day and the historic assault that ...

Wearing a World War II uniform and carrying mementos from two members of the Greatest Generation, U.S. Rep. Keith Self of Texas will solo skydive Friday, and a bipartisan congressional delegation will ...

After Vincent Compeau's death in November, his family asked U.S. Sen. John Hoeven to help fulfill his final wish to take one last jump over Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Lt. Col. Eric Spicer, an Army ...