Airborne!
October 6th, 2011 | Photography | Posted by Alan Lessig
Members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade jump out of a military airplane during a training in Hohenfels, southern Germany, on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011. Some 1,500 US paratroops have jumped over the Hohenfels training area in a massive airborne training operation. The exercise Wednesday pitted soldiers from the Vicenza, Italy-based 173rd Airborne Brigade against a battalion of Slovakian soldiers. The American military says not only are its soldiers now training with Eastern bloc enemies who are now NATO, but the operation also represents a change from exercises designed to prepare for operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Go Forward
October 5th, 2011 | The Wires | Posted by Mike Morones
Former Army SSG. Jonathan Miller throws a discus in front of his wheelchair as he takes part in the Paralympic Military Sports Camp at the Olympic Training Center, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011, in Chula Vista, Calif. The former airborne paratrooper was among more than 60 injured military members and veterans taking part in the camp, which aims to help them with their reconditioning and therapy. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Parachute landing fall
March 1st, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Alan Lessig
Paratroopers with 1st Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division (Advise and Assist Brigade), land on a drop zone near Al Asad Airbase, Iraq, on Feb. 12 as part of a training exercise they hope will lead to combined U.S.–Iraqi training jumps. The jumper rolling on his back is performing a “parachute landing fall,” a maneuver that dissipates the energy of impact, avoiding injury to the paratrooper. (Army photo by Spc. Michael J. MacLeod, 1/82 AAB, USD-C)
Beachfront Property
February 24th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
Soldiers with the 82nd Airborne at FOB White, near the pier at Port-au-Prince, eat their meals (all MREs, all the time – this isn’t Afghanistan, y’know) on the beach – it keeps the rats away from tents.