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This is the last known photo of a legendary US parachute regiment

We travel to Kaprun, Austria, where Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment ended their war in the summer of 1945. By matching famous wartime photographs to the modern landscape, we ...
United States Army

Sky Soldiers host squad leader academy, build next generation of leaders

The 173rd Airborne Brigade continues to sharpen the edge of its future leadership with a squad leader academy, a weeklong course ...
United States Army

1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) Parachute Riggers make history on Joint Base Lewis-McChord

Parachute riggers assigned to Group Support Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) successfully executed the ...
Marine Corps Times

In the bloody, urban combat to liberate Manila, this airborne ‘Angel’ sacrificed all

The 11th Airborne Division was attached to the Sixth Army, engaged in a race against time to liberate the city before its fanatical defender, Rear Adm. Sanji Iwabuchi, destroyed it along with its ...
Derry Journal Newspapers

Mickey McKinney: Author of ‘sick, hateful’ letters targeting Bloody Sunday families should be ‘pitied’

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Daily Mail

Elite airborne British Army regiment the Paras face being sent into battle without parachutes under new cost-cutting measures

They have a reputation for daring and courage – seeing heroic action in Normandy, Arnhem, the Falklands and Afghanistan. But the future of the legendary 'Paras' could be under threat from cost-cutting ...
Echo news

Essex Colchester Garrison monument new reveal date confirmed

A major military monument will be unveiled this summer, it has been confirmed. The statue to mark the 25th anniversary of the airborne forces in Colchester was commissioned by Army bosses at Merville ...
Manchester Evening News

Parachute seen on pylon believed to be part of crashed plane's automatic emergency feature

A parachute seen on a pylon following a plane crash in Rochdale is believed to have been part of the automatic emergency features on the light aircraft. Two men were tragically killed in the incident ...
The New York Times

How the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection process works — and who is involved in voting

The Hall of Fame has recently tightened up its process to determine selection. Nick Cammett / Getty Images Bill Belichick’s reported exclusion from the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year of ...
IEEE

Evolutionary Multitask Optimization for Multiform Feature Selection in Classification

Abstract: Feature selection (FS) is a significant research topic in machine learning and artificial intelligence, but it becomes complicated in the high dimensional search space due to the vast number ...
IEEE

Feature Selection Based on Weighted Fuzzy Rough Sets

Abstract: Fuzzy rough set approaches have received widespread attention across the disciplines of feature selection and rule extraction. When calculating the fuzzy degree of membership of a sample ...