The U.S. Army announced that last week Paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division, 1st Battalion 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, trained with a prototype of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) during Experimental Demonstration Gateway Exercise 2021 at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. According to an Army statement, the training familiarized the 1-508 Paratroopers with the system […]

U.S. Army Paratroopers conducting airborne training on snow- and ice-covered ranges north of the Arctic Circle. According to a recent service news release, Army Paratroopers assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, U.S. Army Alaska, jumped from a U.S. Marine Corps KC-130J Super Hercules […]

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