Story by Sgt. Thoman Johnson | 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) | 02.15.2023
YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz. – In February 2023, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) successfully tested a new unmanned aerial delivery platform, the GD-2000 glider (glider disposable 2000 lbs.). This glider is an alternative to the current means of supply delivery into diverse environments....
Story by Airman 1st Class Thomas Cox | 152nd Airlift Wing | 12.02.2021
Members of the 152nd Airlift Wing, Nevada Air National Guard, will be spending this holiday season overseas as they deployed earlier this week as part of the guard’s federal mission requirements. Aircrew, maintainers and logistics readiness squadron Airmen will provide theater airlift and aerial delivery throughout the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) Area of Responsibility (AOR) for about......
Story by Cpl. Margaret Gale | U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Europe and Africa | 05.08.2019
LEON, Spain – Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Africa 19.2, Marine Forces Europe and Africa, supported exercise Lone Paratrooper with a KC-130J Super Hercules and aerial-delivery Marines at Leon Air Base, Spain, May 6-8, 2019. Lone Paratrooper is a multinational exercise hosted by the Spanish Armed Forces to improve training tactics, exchange knowledge, and build......
Story by Capt. Jerry Duong | 184th Sustainment Command | 12.10.2018
CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait – Soldiers and Marines partnered to train with and test a low-cost parachute system at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, Dec. 10, 2018....
Story by Airman Rhett Isbell | 19th Airlift Wing | 11.27.2017
Little Rock Air Force Base Airmen participated in an exercise with Airman from the Royal Canadian Air Forces base Trenton in Ontario, Canada Nov. 8, 2017....
Story by Sgt. John Carkeet IV | 143d Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) | 09.27.2017
A junior Soldier from the 332nd Transportation Battalion impresses the chief of the U.S. Army Reserve with his keen understanding of what it means for a Soldier to pave the path along 'The Road to Awesome.'...
Story by Sgt. Aaron Ellerman | 143d Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) | 09.27.2017
In order to validate the readiness capabilities of a unit, U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers conduct Deployment Readiness Exercises – no matter their military occupational specialty or the time of day the call to deploy comes. The men and women of Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 332nd Transportation Battalion arrived at the Rattlesnake Point U.S. Army Reserve Center, Sept. 24, well before......
Story by Monique Randolph | Marine Corps Systems Command | 06.28.2017
Marine Corps Systems Command fielded the last of 162 Joint Precision Airdrop Systems to the fleet in April, turning the page from acquisition to sustainment of the system for the Corps....
