FORT HOOD, Texas -- A December 2011 report in the Wall Street Journal discussed the growing importance of U.S. military airdropped supplies into combat areas such as Afghanistan. Ensuring supply ...

CAMP MOBILE SOUTH KOREA - Soldiers from C Company, 304th Signal Battalion, 1st Signal Brigade, conducted sling load operations June 16 at the Camp Mobile airfield. The mission involved setting up and ...

Soldiers from Task Force Strike, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and pilots from Company B, 1st Battalion, 168th Aviation Brigade refined their sling load skills at Camp ...

A U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook and a HH-60 Black Hawk, assigned to the 1st Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment, Joint Task Force-Bravo, Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, conduct sling load operations in Panama ...

Soldiers stationed in Kuwait now have the chance to earn their Air Assault wings thanks to a newly opened Air Assault Course. The very first iteration of the course began April 3 at Camp Buehring to ...

Soldiers with the Wisconsin National Guard's 120th Field Artillery conduct winter sling-load operations Jan. 28, 2026, at Fort McCoy, Wis., with support from UH-60 Black Hawks and a CH-47 Chinook ...