KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany - For U.S. paratroopers, the jumpmaster is the first person they see when they step onto the loading ramp of a military aircraft and last person they see before they step out ...

USSOCOM is set to receive a new XR free-fall jumpmaster virtual training system to supplement its initial and recurrent training courses. US company Vertex Solutions has been awarded a contract to ...

NATICK, Mass. – Sgt. Jovani Tankelewicz recently graduated from the U.S. Army National Guard Warrior Training Center Jumpmaster Course at Camp Varnum, Rhode Island. Tankelewicz serves as an aerial ...

DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. — In order to run a combat free fall jump and deploy Airmen safely from an aircraft at high altitudes, there has to be someone specially trained to direct the ...

1st Sgt. Micah Symmonds is a jumpmaster for the Army's 11th Airborne Division in Alaska. Symmonds said he still gets nervous before jumps, but keeps an outward appearance of calm for his paratroopers.

Cadet Second Class Peter Komar was promoted to the Wings of Blue, the parachute team of the United States Air Force Academy, at a ceremony held by the 98th Flying Training Squadron on May 20. Each ...

More than 35 Soldiers from the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) became Jump-master qualified during a certified training course held in the Group’s compound on Eglin Air Force Base on Dec. 8. The ...

FORT BRAGG It happened during a training exercise at the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center at the Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. The student was working in a jumpmaster training course ...