The Jumpmaster's first priority should be maintaining a high speed, preferably around 130 - 140 SPD. Doing so will keep your team on pace with other's who know how to drop quickly, and it'll give ...

A paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division was getting ready to jump toward the earth when a sharp-eyed jumpmaster stepped in and saved him from a potentially fatal injury — a split-second ...

A new permanent mode is landing in Showdown. Wildcard takes players to a reworked King’s Canyon filled with gravity cannons ...

As the Jumpmaster, the Supply Ship is where you can make a major strategic call. If you believe it is somewhat too far away for most teams to glide to, you can drop near the landing zone and ...

An Army investigator found that at least one jumpmaster "lied to me" about a key safety inspection prior to Spc. Matthew Perez's death on Sept. 12, 2024.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with 1st Sgt. Micah Symmonds, a US Army jumpmaster in the 11th Airborne Division based in Alaska. It's been edited for length and clarity.

Sgt. 1st Class William Baker, a jumpmaster assigned to Special Operations Command South, yells instructions to paratroopers before they jump out of a MH-60 helicopter during a rotary-wing airborne ...

Culture Humor Army jumpmaster breaks down viral video of paratrooper landing on balcony “I’ve never had to brief landing on a house.” Haley Britzky Aug 12, 2022 1:40 PM EDT ...

It was noted the jumpmaster, who was conducting his first safety duty, was not current in his training at the time of the jump, and that he failed to attend the briefing prior to the operation.

An Army investigation into the death of Sgt. Shaina Schmigel found that a jumpmaster did not properly inspect the paratrooper's line before the jump that killed her last year, according to an Army ...

The jumpmaster is typically one of the U.S. Army's more challenging schools; the standards for success are purposefully strict. A typical course will see a 50 percent pass/fail rate.

BAGHDAD - Many Fort Bragg-based veteran paratroopers think of themselves as superstars, but on Jan. 31 a former XVIII Airborne Corps jumpmaster-turned-country-music-star took to the Camp Victory ...