MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Some relatives of D-Day veterans are getting the opportunity of a lifetime: jumping out of an airplane onto Normandy. One of those relatives is 76-year-old Fred Krause, whose dad ...

Over Ie Shima Training Facility in Okinawa, Japan, on Sept. 18, 2025, Force Reconnaissance Marines with the 31st MEU executed static line and freefall jumps from an MV-22B Osprey. These parachute ...

Welcome back to the Daily Aviation for a new documentary video about static line made by US paratroopers from Boeing C-17. Static line is a parachuting method used to open parachutes automatically, ...

Leapfest, the largest static-line military parachuting competition in the world, is set to kick off in Rhode Island on Aug. 2, 2025. Paratroopers from around the world, including Belgium, Oman, and ...

NORMANDY, France -- It's early June, and Normandy is teeming with thousands of paratroopers. Paratroopers walk the streets, drive the roads, and fill the skies of the French countryside. Nearly eight ...

FORT BENNING, Ga. — The call goes out, “hook up!” The airborne students all repeat in unison, “hook up!” as they attach the static line to the anchor line cable in the C-130 aircraft. They check the ...