A paratrooper on a training jump at the Guard’s Muscatatuck Training Center had not quite completed a key part of a mandatory task on a training jump — namely, reaching the ground. Instead ...

Matthew Perez, a paratrooper assigned to 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, from injuries sustained during training at the Joint Readiness Training Center on Sept. 13, 2024,” the ...

“It was more just like training kicked in,” he said ... the same thing and that he intends to keep doing his job as a paratrooper for another seven years before retiring.

One paratrooper was killed, and at least one other soldier was injured during a training parachute jump on Sept. 13 at the Army’s Joint Readiness Training Center in Louisiana, Task & Purpose has ...

FORT LIBERTY — An 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper is recovering after a training accident Wednesday, a spokesman said. The accident occurred during airborne operations in a Fort Liberty ...

A Fort Liberty paratrooper died Thursday after a training exercise incident. Spc. Faamavaega Tanielu, a member of the 82nd Airborne Division, was taken to the hospital after the early morning ...

A paratrooper from the 82nd Airborne Division was fatally injured during recent training at a combined arms instruction facility in Louisiana, the Army said. Pfc. Matthew Perez, assigned to the ...

Colonel Chen Kuan-yu, commander of the army's Airborne Training Centre, said the military's main concern was defence, but that also maintaining airborne capabilities remained important as a means of ...