A soldier tests the controls on a small drone at the 173rd Airborne Brigade's drone lab. The U.S. Army’s rapid response unit in Europe is working quickly to build out its own arsenal of small, agile ...

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn Share via Email The 173rd Airborne Brigade’s Leader Legacy Series is keeping history alive, one veteran at a time. On November 13, ...

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, ...

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 ...

Back to U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa VICENZA, Italy – U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade’s Bayonet Innovation Team (BIT), alongside counterparts from the ...

The senior enlisted leader for the Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade was relieved of his duties last month, officials confirmed Tuesday. Command Sgt. Maj. Matthew Carlson was fired on July 16 “due to a ...

A U.S. Army paratrooper with the 173rd Airborne Brigade is missing after allegedly being put under 24-hour watch and escaping from a base in Italy. The paratrooper, a private first class assigned to ...

CAMISANO VICENTINO, Italy — St. Nicholas took on the guise of American “sky soldiers” ahead of his usual feast day, as members of the Army’s famed 173rd Airborne Brigade became toy distributors for ...