Just call Jaco van Gass Mr Indestructible. The Parachute Regiment veteran, who lost his lower-left arm after being hit by a rocket-propelled grenade in Afghanistan, stormed to cycling gold in Paris ...

The parachute battalion ­immortalised in classic war film A Bridge Too Far could be scrapped in Army cuts. Commanders fear 2 Para, ­famous for its heroics in the Second World War, the Falklands and ...

Afghanistan, March 28, 2010: An elderly man talks with Staff Sgt. Ryan Ledet, of Company B, 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, and Canadian soldiers in the village of Jeleran in the ...

GRAFENWOEHR, Germany — The memory of an American paratrooper who died in Afghanistan in 2005 lives on with a new designation at the Army’s vast rural Bavarian training ground. A landing zone was ...

FORT BRAGG Staff Sgt. Scott W. Brunkhorst, a 25-year-old native of Fayetteville N.C., was killed in action when his dismounted patrol detonated an improvised explosive device in the Arghandab River ...

As thousands of Fort Bragg soldiers prepare for deployment in the war on terrorism, many are making their way home. The command flag and paratroopers from Task Force Panther, 82nd Airborne Division, ...

The American soldier who was fatally mauled by a bear in Alaska has been identified by the U.S. Army as a paratrooper and veteran of the war in Afghanistan. The grisly attack unfolded on Tuesday ...