High above the drop zone, U.S. Army parachute riggers and Special Forces soldiers come together for an airborne operation.

Some Army paratroopers will lose $150 in monthly pay next year as the service reorganizes its airborne force and reclassifies ...

Parachute riggers assigned to 601st Quartermaster Company, Brigade Support Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade, packed and loaded parachutes Dec. 2, 2016 at Camp Adazi, Latvia.

MIESAU ARMY DEPOT, Germany (Oct. 27, 2008) -- Parachute riggers are an airborne SoldierAca,!a,,cs best friend. When a Soldier jumps out of an airplane, he wants to be confident his parachute will ...

Parachute riggers are essential for transporting heavy loads of food, fuel and ammunition with aircraft such as the C-130 or Osprey, enabling ground units to receive supplies faster, safer and at ...

“Parachute riggers of 11th Quartermaster Company have a unique role supporting missions that impact the entire 82nd Airborne Division,” said Visser, Aerial Delivery Platoon leader.

The parachute riggers with the Army’s 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) are making masks for use by military personnel in connection with the recent Department of Defense mandate calling for ...

Terre has been a parachute rigger for all of his 13 years in the military. "I wanted to jump out of planes and this is one of the options they gave me," he said. He said many times students training ...

The Vance parachute shop maintains chutes for both T-38 and T-6 pilots. T-1 pilots are not equipped with parachutes. T-6 parachutes are incorporated into the plane’s ejection seat.

Spc. Stephen V. Bono, a parachute rigger with the 11th Quartermaster Company, said this was his first time working with the JPADS since being introduced to the system during initial entry training.

Parachute riggers must be meticulous and detail-oriented because people's lives are literally in their hands. "Our motto was 'good to the last drop,'" Bakko joked in a phone interview.

Parachute riggers with 1st Special Forces Group's support battalion sew surgical masks for medical patients at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, April 1, 2020. (Sgt. Adam Armstrong/Army ...