FORT BRAGG (WTVD) -- Several hundred 82nd Airborne soldiers will be coming home soon after nine months deployment to Iraq. Their mission there to advise and help train Iraqi troops fight ISIS forces, ...

Maj. Gen. James “Pat” Work relinquished command of the 82nd Airborne Division to Maj. Gen. Brandon Tegtmeier. The ceremony included a pass in review with the Army’s newest infantry squad vehicle and a ...

On Sept. 12, 2024, Army Spc. Matthew Perez made his way to the ramp of a C-17 and prepared to take part in a parachute jump at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Johnson, Louisiana. Perez, ...

Airborne units are typically the first American forces to reach a crisis zone, which means their equipment must prepare them for immediate contact the moment they land Units like the 82nd Airborne ...

FORT LIBERTY, N.C. — Airborne and special forces Soldiers at Fort Liberty are testing the latest small arms weapon sights. The 82nd Airborne Division, joined by the 3rd and 10th Special Forces Groups, ...

FORT BRAGG, North Carolina — Operational testing of the Army’s newest generation sniper system — the MK-22 Precision Sniper Rifle (PSR) — marks the project’s final hurdle before fielding. “The modular ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth knew how to play to the crowd when he spoke to the assembled paratroopers, veterans and their families at the 82 nd Airborne Division Review, the concluding public event ...

FORT BRAGG — A flyover of Blackhawks and Apache helicopters, passing of unit colors and pass in review aboard the Army’s newest infantry squad vehicle on Fort Bragg means one thing for the 82nd ...