The M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, or SAW, is an individually portable, gas operated, magazine or disintegrating metallic link-belt fed, light machine gun with fixed headspace and quick change ...

The XM7 is the Army's replacement for the M4 while the XM250 will replace the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon. Both new weapons ...

Jovon Propst, Spartan Company, 54th Brigade Engineer Battalion, achieved on October 9, 2024, when he made his 100th jump, earning the prestigious title of centurion paratrooper. "I get asked all ...

Witness M249 says he served five tours in Northern ... he spent most of the rest of the day on reserve inside Vere Foster school. The ex-paratrooper and his platoon were upstairs in a former ...

On Oct. 13, Russian marines from the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade captured, stripped and executed nine Ukrainian drone operators while counterattacking the 300-square-mile Ukrainian-held salient ...

The 82nd Airborne Division has announced the recent death of one of its paratroopers, which is under investigation. "It is ...

During the Allied invasion of Europe, Walter Perkowski led a patrol of fellow paratroopers in southern France against German troops. Perkowski fatally shot two of the combatants, his military ...

IDF soldiers find weapons in evacuated residential buildings in southern Lebanon (IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT) The combat team of the IDF's Paratrooper Brigade has eliminated 15 Hezbollah terrorists ...

26, to All Souls Cemetery and Mortuary in Long Beach. That route came through Whittier, where the fallen 20-year-old paratrooper’s father, Jose, requested one extra stop on the way. He wanted his ...

Stories spread of the massacre of Soldiers and civilians at Malmedy and Stavelot, of paratroopers dropping behind the lines, and of English-speaking German soldiers, disguised as Americans ...

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Parachutists Commemorate 80th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands GINKEL HEATH, Netherlands (AP) — Hundreds of paratroopers dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath ...