About the U.S. Army Operational Test Command ... experiments of aerial delivery and air transportation equipment and procedures for airborne and special operations forces to provide key ...

Fort Bragg, North Carolina -- A new parachute system designed to deliver light supplies and heavy equipment ... working with the U.S. Army Operational Test Command's Airborne and Special ...

U.S. Army airborne and Ranger units are testing a new, jumpable pack with a built-in equipment harness. The MOLLE 4000 is the Army’s new airborne rucksack, designed to satisfy requests from ...

1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division conducted an exercise using new and modernized network equipment, giving the Army critical feedback before fielding to more units this year. (Sgt. 1st ...

Army Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division found their two options ... orders for the new Modular Lightweight Load-carrying Equipment by Sept. 30, with production starting soon after ...

Mary Ricks, a spokesperson for the XVIII Airborne Corps. After the Army realized that hundreds ... such as a lack of available jump equipment or aircraft, bad weather or a soldier’s need to ...

Soldiers at Fort Stewart, Georgia, and Fort Liberty, North Carolina from heavily deployed units like the 82nd Airborne ... of equipment that company commanders are responsible for, the Army ...

materials and equipment aims to streamline and modernize Army units. The R2E program has already been completed for XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Stewart, Ga., Fort Liberty, N.C., and the 101st ...

In mid-August, the Army celebrated 75 years of airborne. It was on Aug. 16 ... get soldiers and equipment safely from a speeding plane to the ground. Over the last 15 years, the members of ...