EXETER, R.I. – U.S. Army Airborne Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians participated in Leapfest 2025, at Exeter, Rhode Island, Aug. 2, 2025. The 767th EOD Company and 722nd EOD Company from the ...

Several US troops, including Navy SEALs, have died in parachuting accidents over the past decade. Despite the danger, parachuting is a valuable method to put forces on the ground for important ...

A California family is mourning the loss of a young Marine, killed in a parachuting accident in Coolidge on Monday. Twenty-two-year-old Alejandro 'Alex' Romero died in a double-bag static line ...

EXETER, R.I. (WPRI) — The Rhode Island National guard’s Leapfest is back and bigger than ever! Leapfest is the largest, longest-running international military static line parachute competition in the ...

The U.S. Marine Corps has identified the service member killed in a parachute training accident Monday in Arizona. Cpl. Alejandro Romero died in a double-bag static line parachute mishap during the ...

The Army is testing a new reserve parachute in its quest to minimize malfunctions. The new reserve parachute has a ripcord handle that is a single pin pull and an updated handle that protects from ...

SOUTH KINGSTON, R.I. - Military paratroopers competing in the Rhode Island National Guard's annual "Leapfest" competition got to the 1,500 foot starting altitude of their jump thanks to ten Soldiers ...

Jan. 24 (UPI) --The U.S. Marine Corps has suspended double-bag static line parachute jumps after a training accident claimed the life of a U.S. Marine in Arizona. The 22-year-old Marine, Cpl.

A Marine was killed in a parachute incident that occurred Monday at the Multi-Mission Parachute Course in Coolidge, Arizona. Because of the accident, the Corps has suspended all double-bag static line ...

A Marine was killed in a parachute accident in Coolidge on Monday, according to the US Marine Corps. The Marine, 22-year-old Corporal Alejandro Romero, was in training with the US Marine Corps School ...