James Dassinger was a Vietnam War paratrooper ... Dassinger was in the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam. As it turns out, that’s the very same unit a close family friend is currently attached ...

Cindy wanted her late paratrooper father to jump one last time from a military ... While activated during the Vietnam War, 173rd Airborne Brigade was known as 173rd Airborne Brigade (Separate ...

Matchin, who served with the unit during the Vietnam War ... when the 173rd Airborne Brigade Association has a reunion in New Orleans. “By getting the word out, families in the U.S. may want ...

Each small drone, compared to "steerable mortars," is made in-house with soldiers building them themselves to then train with them.

More recent are our memories of veterans from World War ... jump in the Vietnam conflict on Feb. 22, 1967 called “Operation Junction City.” There were nearly 3,000 soldiers serving the 173rd ...

U.S. paratroopers dash across a clearing to helicopters that will lift them out of this section of jungle in War Zone C in Vietnam in ... are of (4th Batt.) 173rd Airborne Brigade, about 65 ...

Then, he was sent to jump ... out of class of around 400 of us, I think about 300 went to Vietnam at that time,” he said. Newton was assigned to the 173rd Engineer Company, 173rd Airborne ...

On the first night of the Bowdoinham Ice and Smelt Festival, Vietnam veterans shared stories of what it was like amid the fog of war and how ... sergeant in the 173rd Airborne Brigade.

The Army will recode 20,000 parachutist jobs in a major airborne restructuring. Here, an Army paratrooper assigned to the 173rd Airborne ... be required to maintain jump status or receive jump ...

C-rations were the infamous canned meals that fueled many American troops during the Vietnam War. The proper name ... Special Forces and the 173rd Airborne Brigade on their missions.

Photographer Tim Page, whose images and exploits from the Vietnam ... the war, “Dispatches.” Herr wrote that Page once railed against a publisher who had asked him to take the glamor out ...