VICENZA, Italy — When Jim Matchin visits the home of his former unit, the 173rd Airborne Brigade, he sees memorials to fallen soldiers from World War II and conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Matchin, ...
As 173rd Airborne Brigade jumpmaster Sgt. 1st Class Thomas Harris stood at the open door of the C-130 Hercules, the roar of the engines and the rush of the wind filled his ears. He had jumped at ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - A new monument honoring some of the Army’s finest paratroopers, nicknamed the sky soldiers, is now sitting at Fort Jackson National Cemetery. That monument, honoring the 173rd ...
AVIANO, Italy — More than 100 female paratroopers from six battalions of the Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade stationed in Germany and Italy joined up at Aviano Air Base for an airborne operation made up ...
Former Staff Sgt. Ryan M. Pitts became the third living "Sky Soldier" from the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team to receive the Medal of Honor in the past four years. Pitts joined Sgt. Kyle White and ...