Photo by Spc. Armani Wilson | Joint Force Headquarters - Iowa National Guard | 02.02.2024
Capt. (Chaplain) Tim Hadley, assigned to the 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division, Iowa National Guard, smiles for a portrait on Feb. 2, 2024, after graduating from the U.S. Army Airborne School at Fort Moore, Georgia. Hadley's journey to airborne qualification was hindered by the COVID-19 pandemic, but culminated three years later with his......
Photo by Nathan Snook | Fort Benning Public Affairs Office | 04.28.2020
FORT BENNING, Ga. – Maj. Gen. Gary M. Brito, commanding general of the U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence and Fort Benning, leads a COVID-19 town hall meeting April 28, live-streamed on Facebook . During the town hall, officials announced the first cautious steps toward what could become a broader, phased transition to lifting many additional restrictions that have been in place since......
Photo by Patrick Albright | Fort Benning Public Affairs Office | 04.14.2020
FORT BENNING, Ga. – At Fort Benning's Lawson Army Airfield April 14, Soldiers who recently graduated here from One-Station Unit Training for service with the Infantry or Armor, exercise social distancing and wear masks or other face coverings as they board an aircraft enroute to their first post-training duty station. Until earlier this month, OSUT graduates could not move to their next......
Photo by Patrick Albright | Fort Benning Public Affairs Office | 08.16.2019
FORT BENNING, Ga. – A World War II-vintage C-47 transport plane makes an airdrop over Fort Benning's Fryar Drop Zone Aug. 16, 2019, in observance on National Airborne Day. Making the jump were historical re-enactors in World War II paratrooper uniforms. Fort Benning is birthplace of the U.S. Army Airborne, and home to the U.S. Army Airborne School, which trains paratroopers for the Army and......
Photo by Spc. Jeron Walker | 124th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 11.29.2018
U.S Army Airborne School School instructor, Staff Sgt, Brian Rutz, from the Fort Benning based, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, conducts pre-checks of a reserve parachute during the pre-inspection jump video shoot at Clay National Guard Center, Marietta, Ga on Nov. 29, 2018. The Airborne Accident Prevention Program produces airborne safety videos to educate qualified service members about......
Photo by Patrick Albright | Fort Benning Public Affairs Office | 08.17.2018
FORT BENNING, Ga. – In this U.S. Army file photo from 2018, a restored Douglas C-33 aircraft flies low over Fryar Drop Zone as part of National Airborne Day. The Maneuver Center of Excellence and Fort Benning is scheduled to host the 2019 National Airborne Day event beginning 9 a.m. Aug. 16 at Fryar Drop Zone with freefall parachute jump demonstrations by two separate jump teams, followed by......
Photo by Patrick Albright | Fort Benning Public Affairs Office | 08.17.2018
FORT BENNING, Ga. – In this U.S. Army file photo from 2018, parachutists in World War II period uniform drop from a restored Douglas C-33 aircraft over Fryar Drop Zone as part of National Airborne Day. The Maneuver Center of Excellence and Fort Benning is scheduled to host the 2019 National Airborne Day event beginning 9 a.m. Aug. 16 at Fryar Drop Zone with freefall parachute jump......
Photo by Patrick Albright | Fort Benning Public Affairs Office | 08.16.2018
FORT BENNING, Ga. – The Maneuver Center of Excellence and Fort Benning is scheduled to host the 2019 National Airborne Day event beginning 9 a.m. Aug. 16 at Fryar Drop Zone with freefall parachute jump demonstrations by two separate jump teams, followed by a graduation ceremony of the nation’s newest paratroopers. (U.S. Army file photo by Patrick Albright, Maneuver Center of Excellence,......
