JROTC cadets from Permian High School and Odessa High School spent part of their Friday on the wall of the Odessa College Fire/EMS Technology Training Rappel Tower as they trained in basic military ...

In a forested area west of Bend on Thursday, Sarah Jakober peered up at a blindingly blue Oregon sky as helicopters circled overhead. Soon she’d be inside one of them, only to jump out with nothing ...

The training brought together 250 crew members from across the Mountain West for re-certification ahead of what could be a ...

Madison County Technical Team team member Todd Zorbrist, right, gestures as he talks about ways to hook up a Stokes basket among the ropes used for rappelling and lowering equipment at Riverview Park ...

U.S. Marines with 12th Littoral Combat Team, 12th Marine Littoral Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, rehearse rappelling techniques at the Jungle Warfare Training Center on Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, Japan, ...

CAMP MERRILL, Ga. - A new four-story rappel and climb tower has given the Army an added boost in Ranger training's mountain phase. Just a few hundred yards outside the main camp on the outskirts of ...

A group of Pennsylvania National Guard soldiers got some real-world rappel training earlier this month at the Boxcar Rocks formation in Lebanon County, Pa. About 25 soldiers with 1st Squadron, 104th ...

SALMON, Idaho (KIFI) - Some of the best firefighters in the country came to train with the Heli-Rappellers in the Salmon-Challis National Forest this May. Once they learn the ropes, they one day may ...