As Navy rigger, you're an aircrew survival equipmentman. You'll earn Navy parachutist wings, but you'll learn to do more than maintain and prepare parachutes for use. Navy parachute riggers also ...

Parachute rigging in the Army has been around since the first Airborne unit was established in 1940. In those days Paratroopers prepared and cared for their own parachutes. At the onset of World War ...

FORT PICKETT, Va. (May 18, 2017) -- One could question why riggers – those who pack parachutes for airborne units – are so privileged to wear red caps during in-house operations and maroon berets ...

FORT PICKETT, Va. – The sky above this installation was once again filled with paratroopers dropping from aircraft as the Quartermaster School resumed airborne operations April 22. The Virginia ...

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION YUMA, Ariz. – A squadron of MV-22 Ospreys flew in formation from behind a mountain range, their silhouettes barely visible in front of the setting sun. Each Osprey pilot ...

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – “I will be sure always,” is the motto of the U.S. Army parachute rigger. Every rigger is Airborne qualified and by tradition required to be ready to jump any ...