“I said, ‘Stick up your hands ... Perkowski asked what job paid the most and was told serving as paratrooper, so he responded: “Sign me up.” He was assigned to the 517th Parachute Infantry ...
Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Jim Akin carried an estimated 10,000 paratroopers as a pilot, and when he skydived at 99 years old ...
The battalion commander dispatched another force under the command of a platoon commander in the paratroopers' NCO course ... throwing a stick at the drone. At 4 p.m., six hours after the incident ...
NOTEWORTHY Tied the discarded head of a 5-iron to a bamboo stick and started playing golf at age 16. ... Joined the Royal Thai Army in 1989 at age 20, becoming a paratrooper, before turning ...
A successful attorney and decorated vet gave up everything to fight for Ukraine. His family is still trying to figure out why ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Spanish counterpart, President Pedro Sanchez, on Monday inaugurated India's first ...
At inspections, Steiner often gets his troops’ attention by firing off a few rounds from his Browning, then lectures them, his walking stick under ... a former French paratrooper and veteran ...
Betty Webb, 97, points with her walking stick to a ground floor room in the ... Later he became a paratrooper and took part in the invasion of Italy. In September 1944 he was dropped into the ...
A former Army paratrooper, he'd served three tours in ... he told friends he was going to stick it out. He had a soft spot for green troops, and he thought he could whip the newbies into shape.
If you flunked out on your jumps, you would be sent back to the infantry, but I had the chance to stick with the parachute ...