FORT POLK, La. - There's a military adage that says "train like you fight." So at the Joint Readiness Training Center here, that's exactly what the 38th Infantry Division's 76th Infantry Brigade ...

Fort Bragg has done something that has never been done in the Army. On March 23, Soldiers of the DeGlopper Air Assault School and the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division joined forces ...

Fort Stewart, Ga.- The 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team made Humvees fly, June 19 at Wright Army Airfield as part of their sling-load training. Logistics teams from across the brigade went to the ...

The Chalker Sling--2nd Generation is the latest sling design by Command Master Chief Denny the "SNAKE" Chalker (Command Master Chief; US Navy Seal retired). It can be used with a variety of weapons, ...

Taken on Aug. 15, 2013, the following video shows members of the Iowa Army and Air National Guard “sling loading” a historic U.S. Air Force jet, an A-7K Corsair II, via CH-47F Chinook helicopter. The ...

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 ...

The Sikorsky-Boeing SB-1 Defiant rotorcraft demonstrated the ability to lift a 2,400kg (5,300lb) sling load in a recent test flight. The co-axial helicopter with a pusher propeller is still undergoing ...