JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft – that’s how some would describe what Pfc. Edgar Sandoval was prepared to do the drearily cloudy Alaska morning of Aug. 5. The perfectly good aircraft in question was a UH-60 Black Hawk piloted by 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment, Alaska Army National […]
DEADHORSE, Alaska – U.S. Army Alaska paratroopers conducted the largest U.S. airborne operation north of the Arctic Circle in over a decade Tuesday to hone their skills in conducting Arctic airborne and mobility operations. Paratroopers from the 6th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division conducted an airborne jump operation Tuesday […]
On the heels of the scrapping of the truce between the Ukrainian government and the pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, the first U.S. Army paratroopers arrived in Poland for the start of military maneuvers that are slated to last approximately one month. The paratroopers are part of what is set to involve about 600 troops […]