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The U.S. Army Quartermaster School’s Aerial Delivery and Field Services Department reopened McLaney Drop Zone with an ...
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — If you're looking for the best team of parachute riggers in the Army, look no further than the Army's 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Eglin Air Force Base. The Army’s ...
The riggers of E Company, 1st Battalion (Airborne), 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment ... provide maintenance support to units at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa ...
In the days since the April 5 DoD mandate, the 7th Group has been making and supplying masks for personnel across Eglin Air Force Base ... initial training, parachute riggers learn to use sewing ...
As a U.S. Air Force parachute rigger during the Korean War, Joan Ortmann already was in a league of her own. She was the only woman in the rigger group at the Westover Air Force Base in ...
The 82nd Sustainment Brigade riggers provided support ... This unique combination of a GPS-steered parachute system, coupled with the Army and Air Force working together, means that both forces ...
Military prosecutors began Tuesday presenting their case against two Marines accused of attempted murder in the sabotage of parachutes, some of which failed during jump training. Most of the ...
at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. This training was conducted at Vandenberg AFB’s drop zone in order for both the Paratroopers and Parachute Riggers to maintain qualifications unique to their ...