Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sierra Nevada Corp. plans to turn five Boeing 747-8 aircraft into the Air Force's new fleet of Survivable Airborne Operations Center planes, which would allow the president to direct ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - About 200 members of the Nebraska National Guard made their final parachute jump last Friday, as the 2nd Battalion, 134th Infantry Regiment’s airborne operations came to an end. While the 2nd-134th Infantry has been conducting its ...

On the 80th anniversary of the fateful airborne operation of World War II known as Operation Market Garden, nearly two dozen 21st Theater Sustainment Command Soldiers assigned to the 5th Quartermaster Theater Aerial Delivery Company provided sustainment ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The E-4B "Nightwatch" is nicknamed the "doomsday plane" because it can survive a nuclear attack. In the event of nuclear war, it would serve as the US military's command and control center.

National Airborne Day coincides with the Airborne & Special Operations Museum's 25th anniversary and a Liberty Tree commemoration. A ceremony marking the 250th anniversary of the Liberty Tree will be held at the museum on August 16. The event includes a ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — A number of soldiers from a Columbus-based unit of the U.S. Army Reserve are scheduled to parachute at Wright-Patterson Airfield on Friday. According to the 88th Air Base Wing, soldiers from the 412th Civil Affairs Battalion ...