Army Goes Barnstorming Around Europe with Acclaimed Rocket System
American mobile rocket systems are making the rounds in Europe on a tour stretching from the Arctic to the Baltics and beyond as the Army shows off a star of its arsenal that has garnered attention as a godsend to Ukraine.
The High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, known as HIMARS, was firing recently in Sweden’s High North on a short-notice mission that began hours earlier with troops taking flight aboard a special operations C-130 flying out of Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
“It provides us an opportunity to showcase a weapons system that right now there’s a lot of interest in across our allies and partners,” Army Maj. Gen. Stephen Maranian, commander of the Wiesbaden, Germany-based 56th Artillery Command, said.
85-year-old Medal of Honor pilot makes 1st airplane jump
Army Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Patrick Brady, a Medal of Honor recipient who turns 86 in October, until recently had never before jumped out of an airplane.
Three of his children have done airplane jumps — two of his daughters as sports…