Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts

2021/05/10

Paratroopers jump into Estonia during ‘complex but awesome’ nighttime drill

Paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division dropped into Estonia early Saturday during an exercise meant to test and strengthen their ability to communicate and cooperate with each other and their allies.

2017/04/20

Saber Junction 14

SkySoldiers from 4th Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment conduct training exercises during Saber Junction 14 at the JMRC in Hohenfels, Germany.

2017/04/19

Arnhem 1944: The Airborne Battle by Martin Middlebrook

Arnhem was Montgomery's uncharacteristic gamble to shorten the war in Europe.

Villafranca Air Base

#SkySoldiers assigned to the 173rd Brigade Support Battalion and Italian Army Paratroopers prepare to board a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules from the 86th Air Wing at Villafranca Air Base (3rd Wing) in Italy. This was in preparation for airborne operations onto Juliet Drop Zone in Pordenone, Italy.

11e brigade parachutiste

54th Brigade Engineer Battalion - #Airborne

#SkySoldiers from 54th Brigade Engineer Battalion - Airborne and 4th Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, as well as French paratroopers from the 35th Parachute Artillery Regiment, 11th Parachute Brigade, performed an airborne operation as part of Exercise Colibri in Tarbes, France.

2017/04/17

#SkySoldiers load into a C-130

SkySoldiers load into a C-130 to leave for Saber Junction 16 at Aviano Air Base in Aviano, Italy. Paratroopers were off to Hohenfels, Germany for a combined operation with participating Allied and partner nations.

2017/04/16

#SkySoldiers

#SkySoldiers assigned to 4th Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment conduct a training jump during an airborne operation at the 7th Army Joint Multinational Training Command's Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany.

2017/03/13

Airborne & Special Operations Museum To Honor Medal Of Honor Recipients

The Airborne and Special Operations Museum in Fayetteville, NC will host special screenings of documentary films honoring some of the United States’ World War II Medal of Honor recipients. The event will take place on March 25 at 10 a.m. in the museum’s Yarborough-Bank Theatre.

2017/03/11

Exercise Saber Strike

SkySoldiers from 3rd Platoon, "Chosen" Company, 2D Battalion (Airborne) 503D Infantry "The Rock" assault an objective during an assault operation during Exercise Saber Strike 16.