Archive photo of the day
Saber Junction, 2016
Stars and Stripes
January 4, 2025
Hohenfels, Germany, April 11, 2016: Soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade and Italian troops get set to jump out of a C-17 above Hohenfels, Germany, as part of exercise Saber Junction. Fifty-one made it out of the plane, but six had to return to Aviano Air Base after winds were judged to be too strong during the aircraft’s third pass over the zone.
Read the full story of the 173rd’s jump here.