Parachute

Skydiving for sport or recreation is among the most popular ways mankind has devised to laugh in the face of our own mortality. As insane as it might sound to jump out of a perfectly good airplane, somewhere in the neighborhood of 350,000 jumpers execute close to 3 million jumps each year in the United […]

Skydiving for sport or recreation is among the most popular ways mankind has devised to laugh in the face of our own mortality. As insane as it might sound to jump out of a perfectly good airplane, somewhere in the neighborhood of 350,000 jumpers execute close to 3 million jumps each year in the United […]

A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster accidentally dropped a U.S. Army Humvee into a rural neighborhood miles from the intended drop zone in North Carolina on Thursday. The Humvee’s parachute deployed and no one was injured in the incident. The Air Force transport plane hailed from the 437th airlift wing based at Joint Base Charleston […]

Airmen parachute from an HC-130J Combat King II aircraft on to the frozen Beaufort Sea several hundred miles north of the Alaskan coastline, March 5, 2018. The operation dropped a package that can provide shelter, heat, transportation, fuel and food for 28 individuals for almost seven days in extreme arctic conditions. The airmen are assigned […]

U.S. Marines with 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, conduct parachute water operations in Okinawa, Japan, October 11, 2017. 3rd Marine Division is the only forward-deployed division in the Marine Corps and has been a force in the Pacific for 75 years. U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Carl Kinga Featured […]

Aside from combat, I am most often asked about my experiences as a paratrooper. To become Airborne qualified (jump wings) you must first attend, and pass Airborne school at Fort Benning, GA. I attended this course directly after Basic/AIT training. However, there were many people in my class that had been in the military for a number […]

Navy SEALs are often thought of as amphibious warfighters, rising from the depths of the sea to engage opponents, but America’s most well-known special operations war fighters need to be experts in far more than just swimming and shooting.  Even the name SEAL, while garnering aquatic imagery, is actually a shortened description of where our […]

Military airdrops are pretty routine events but as with anything sometimes things go wrong. In this case things went wrong not once, not twice, but three times with the results being three totally destroyed Army Humvees! Watch as Humvees fall from the sky (Caution Adult Language) A video circulating on social media shows the vehicles […]

Aside from combat, I am most often asked about my experiences as a paratrooper. To become Airborne qualified (jump wings) you must first attend, and pass Airborne school at Fort Benning, GA. I attended this course directly after Basic/AIT training. However, there were many people in my class that had been in the military for […]

As spectators watched, the paratrooper, who managed to get his parachute to open partially, passed another paratrooper who had jumped before him.

The second paratrooper, realising his colleague was in distress, managed to move rapidly towards him to help.

At the time of going to print it was not known exactly how the second paratrooper managed to help his mate, although he could clearly be seen moving above the top of the twisted parachute.

Positioning himself above it, the [second] paratrooper appeared to struggle with the parachute before it floated away.

The soldier in distress managed to deploy his reserve parachute seconds later.

Going out the aircraft door at a thousand feet over the farmland of central Poland, strapped to a parachute and 130 pounds of combat gear, turns out to be the easy part. A relief, in fact, after a 10-hour flight from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, strapped into fold-down seats along the edges of the C-17 […]

U.S. Marines assigned to Maritime Raid Force, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit conduct jump and recovery training at sea near, White Beach , Okinawa, Short Version https://youtu.be/6TCfk6TajRQ   Long Version https://youtu.be/0dIvoANuPHU   Featured Content – DVIDS