Stars and Stripes

Airfield repairs could soon resolve Okinawa parachute jump training dispute

The Marine Corps could soon resolve a dispute with Okinawa prefecture over parachute jump training at Kadena Air Base by reopening an offshore airfield. Repair work at Ie Shima Auxiliary Airfield is ...
Stars and Stripes

Okinawa protests parachute training while US works on alternative site

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The U.S. military has reportedly started preliminary work to repair an auxiliary airfield runway that figures in a dispute between the U.S. military and Okinawa prefecture over ...
The New York Times

Retire? They’d Rather Jump Out of a Plane.

These skydiving seniors are taking their golden years one 12,500-foot leap at a time. Credit... Supported by By Charley Locke Photographs and Video by Randy Forbes Reporting from on the ground (and ...
Richmond

Fort Lee moves parachute training to Fort Pickett

Parachute jump training and other air delivery operations at Fort Lee have been moved to Fort Pickett while a Fort Lee drop zone is evaluated for safety after a parachutist died during a training jump ...