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Riggers are the Foundation for Every Parachute in the U.S. Army
August 13, 2019 — Behind every military aerial delivery is a highly skilled group that meticulously prepare the chutes and the packages that seem to fall effortlessly out of their military transports. They are called Riggers. Identified by their red “baseball” style hats, a U.S. Army rigger is a Soldier trained to pack, maintain, and repair parachutes. After WW2, the Army gave the Quartermaster Corps the mission of aerial delivery, including parachute rigging. Shortly after, a parachute rigger course was established at the U.S. Army Quartermaster School at Fort Lee, Virginia in 1951, and continues today... MORE

Rigging the sustainment game
July 6, 2017 — While the parachute riggers of the Army Reserve’s 824th Quartermaster Company, based at Fort Bragg, N.C., may not include packing parachutes for Soldiers to jump out of perfectly good airplanes, the supplies and equipment they prepare for aerial delivery are no less vital to the survival of Soldiers... MORE

Spc. Alexander Triska and Spc. Keith Manning of the 824th Quartermaster Company, secure a parachute to a container for aerial delivery at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar on April 25, 2017. Aerial delivery operations are essential for getting supplies to troops in the Middle East when conventional means of transportation are not feasible. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jeremy Bratt)

Airborne testers ensure Army equipment survivability when dropped from above
June 2, 2017 — A new parachute system designed to deliver light supplies and heavy equipment to ground troops is at its half-way point in operational testing here by Tennessee Army Reserve parachute riggers... MORE

The Advanced Low Velocity Airdrop System - Light/Heavy (ALVADS-L/H) delivers the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) to ground troops and is nearly at its half-way point in operational testing with the Fort Hood, Texas-based U.S. Army Operational Test Command's Airborne and Special Operations Test Directorate (ABNSOTD) at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army file photo)

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