The Rangers did a jump into Afghanistan in 01 homie.it separates the people who value their knees from those who don't
its 2020 - if airborne won't even jump into afghanistan then where they hell are they gonna jump again? only thing airborne units got is tradition - and tradition built off learning from the mistakes of german and british airdrops at that
jumping out of a plane was dumb then and its even dumber now. the only reason it was even pushed to begin with was because of how time was no one's friend in WW2 and because information was incredibly hard to come by. dropping a massive number of soldiers in an area where they weren't supposed to be may as well have been strategic pocket sand in your enemy's eyes - something to buy you time while you pushed your armor to where it needed to be.
its not fear stopping people its common sense. shyt ain't even a school or skillset airborne is play play mixed with nostalgia
what can an airborne soldier do that a drone can't?
oh that's right. die and waste a bunch of training and time/money invested
yeah you might be sipping the koolaid homie
he told no lies there
The 173rd did a jump in northern Iraq in 03 homie There's several people walking around with mustard stains (combat jumps) well by now they may be retired but a mass tac jump still works when you have total air supremacy which is what the US would have with anybody they would fight except maybe Russia and China.
It still makes sense against Infantry to capture a position quickly.