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‘Win-win situation’ for paratroopers, children

Courtesy Story | 49th Public Affairs Detachment (Airborne) | Date: 10.23.2012

“Gifts, gifts, gifts!” This was the alarm Army Pvt. Marcos J. Silva used as a child to wake his parents on Christmas Day. Now a cavalry scout paratrooper with the 1st Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 2nd... Read More

82nd CAB comes home after record-breaking deployment

Story by Staff Sgt. April Campbell | 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade | Date: 09.19.2012

After one year, flying more than 175,000 record-breaking hours during a third deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade has officially come home to Fort Bragg. Read More

Hercules Training: The 2nd BCT conducts casualty evacuation exercise on C-130 aircraft

Story by Sgt. Matthew Ryan | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division Public Affairs | Date: 08.15.2012

As bodies lay on litters secured by straps, paratroopers wait for commands from airmen to load the patients into the aircraft. A thumbs-up is given, and paratroopers hurry up the ramp of a C-130 Hercules to... Read More

18th Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg CSM does final jump before leaving installation

Story by Staff Sgt. JaJuan Broadnax | 49th Public Affairs Detachment (Airborne) | Date: 02.07.2012

After more than two years as Fort Bragg and 18th Airborne Corps’ senior-enlisted soldier, Command Sgt. Maj. Earl Rice made his final jump, Feb. 7, in an airborne operation on Sicily Drop Zone, Fort Bragg, N.C. Read More