The Army has about 56,000 paid parachutist positions and plans to reclassify 22,000 of them. Here's why.

The Army has about 56,000 paid parachutist positions and plans to reclassify 22,000 of them. Here's why. News Sports Weekender Lifestyle Advertise Opinion Obituaries eNewspaper Legals ...

Service members from every branch go to this school to earn their jump wings despite this being an Army course. This is a short course for the military, clocking in at just 3 weeks.

U.S. Army Sgt. Theodore Armstrong, a soldier assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade, disconnects a p arachute concluding a jump in Exercise Agile Spirit 23 at Vaziani Training Area, Georgia on ...

As members of the Silver Wings, soldiers put in hours of weekly practice in preparation for their demonstration jumps. The team’s mission is to represent the Maneuver Center of Excellence’s 1 ...

I did my best to stand up straight in formation to accept my Canadian Jump Wings from a colonel who pinned them to my chest. Next came a major working the line. By now, I’d lost my military bearing.

The jump wings awarded to Lee Jackson Bowers, a first lieutenant, who participated in D-Day airborne operations on June 6, 1944. (Sgt. 1st Class Ian Morales/11th Airborne Division) ...

A paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team receives German jump wings f rom German army Capt. Andreas Trenzinger, April 18, 2013, at Normandy Drop Zone during ...

I passed the infamous Pegasus Company (P-Company) training and earned my military jump wings in 2016. The P-Company is an intense training that prepares soldiers to serve in a parachute role.

Haley Britzky with Army Sgt. 1st Class Rich Sloan, mid-jump. (U.S. Army/Golden Knights) If you’re going to jump out of a plane, you might as well do it with the best of the best.