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. – 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 ...

JOINT BASE ELEMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Army 1st Lt. Laura Condyles, a parachute rigger-qualified officer with the 725th Brigade Support Battalion, recently returned from graduating second place at ...

Sievers graduates from U.S. Army rigger course Army Pvt. James J. Sievers has graduated from a parachute rigger course at the 262nd Quartermaster Battalion, Fort Lee, Petersburg, Va. Sievers was ...