The Fort Hood Air Assault School class 003-12 graduated 87 students Sept 17. ... "The Air Assault School creates and reinforces strengths that are universal to all aspects of our military profession.

In addition to repelling from helicopters, qualified air assault troops must also be able to properly sling-load, or tether, military equipment and vehicles to rotary-wing assets.

SAN ANTONIO, Philippines — U.S. soldiers and Marines and Filipino troops demonstrated an air assault on three islands guarding a key strait near Taiwan, sending a message to China that America ...

Roughly 12 to 14 assault troops would be able to fit in the V-280 during those hypothetical island-hopping scenarios. “This is an advanced tilt-rotor, so it’s a generation beyond our V-22 ...

Incredible images show British Armed Forces helicopters during a major exercise which includes a dramatic air assault training mission. Exercise Hades Warrior is a high-intensity, multi-service ...

The Army Air Assault Course is one of the toughest military challenges, designed to push soldiers to their limits with rope ...

An Air Assault instructor, left, ... Rose L. Thayer is the military editor for the Killeen Daily Herald. She joined the paper in February 2011 as a health and military reporter.

To haul the gear they needed alongside the 1,100 air assault troops and their accompanying units, the 101st called on the Air Force’s 61st Airlift Squadron out of Little Rock, Arkansas, McIntosh ...

A strong military needs the best equipment. That's why the Army is speeding up delivery of the new tiltrotor for Future Long-Range Air Assault. Its far more advanced than its predecessor.

Soldiers with the 80th Air Assault Brigade loading into an armored personnel carrier in eastern Ukraine. Image Troops with the 80th have been fighting near the ruined Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.

Operation Varsity was the last Allied air assault of World War II, and the troops involved used the best firearms that could be had in March 1945.

U.S. troops in Romania are extremely close to Putin's war, conducting exercises with NATO allies that "replicate exactly what's going on" over the border.