Memorial Day is a difficult day to write about and for many to think about as we remember our loved ones - ancestors and veterans - and especially those who ...

The brigade earned 13 Medals of Honor during the Vietnam War after being the first major U.S. unit to deploy in the war, and they conducted the conflict's only combat parachute jump.

It involved dropping 1,000 paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade into Northern Iraq. It was the last large-scale combat parachute operation conducted by the U.S. military since Operation ...

Milton had served with the 173rd Airborne Brigade in 1965, I served in the 173rd two years later, and was wounded two years after Milton was killed. The 173rd was a very small unit and had much ...

Paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vicenza, Italy, share candid reflections on what service means today and express deep gratitude to the veterans who established the Sky Soldiers ...

The 173rd Airborne Brigade was the first U.S. Army unit to arrive in Vietnam in 1965, and it sustained heavy losses in the Battle of Dak To in 1967. In the 1979 Francis Ford Coppola movie "Apocalypse ...

Sgt. Kaity Andersen gets set to jump out of a C-130 Hercules on March 14, 2024, during the 173rd Airborne Brigade's all-female parachute jump near Vajont, Italy. (Brian Erickson/Stars and Stripes) ...

Soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade and the 414th Contracting Support Brigade modify a drone at the 173rd’s drone lab in Italy. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Joskanny Lua ...

A U.S. Army paratrooper with the 173rd Airborne Brigade is missing after allegedly being put under 24-hour watch and escaping from a base in Italy.

Col. Joshua Gaspard, the 173rd Airborne Brigade commander, left, welcomes new paratroopers during a patching ceremony July 26, 2023, at Caserma Del Din in Vicenza, Italy. (Jose Lora/U.S. Army) ...