Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: This is the most crucial moment for every student during Airborne School: the moment the parachute deploys after jumping. If anything is wrong with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every year, about 15,000 students perform five jumps from a live aircraft before graduating from the United States Army’s Airborne ...

FORT LEE, Va. -- The U.S. Army Quartermaster School’s Aerial Delivery and Field Services Department dedicated one of its parachute-packing classrooms July 21 in memory of a XVIII Airborne Corps ...

Charles Plumb was a U.S. Navy jet pilot in Vietnam. He has been the subject of a short story familiar to many. Plumb’s plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile and he ejected safely, but ...

Every year, about 15,000 students perform five jumps from a live aircraft before graduating from the United States Army’s Airborne School, each depending on a parachute to get them safely to the ...