Hosted by the Naval Aircrew Systems (PMA-202) Fleet Air Introduction/Liaison of Survival Aircrew Flight Equipment (FAILSAFE) team, the event drew over 100 attendees, including parachute riggers ...

After graduating, he joined the US Army Airborne where he served from 19 July 54 to 8 July 57 in the 11th airborne division as a parachute rigger and repair. He was awarded the national defense ...

Whiteside joined in 1976, at the end of the Vietnam era, working as a parachute rigger. “I was trained for survival equipment,” said Whiteside. “So we took care of all the technical ...

Rep. Darrell Issa Office “Speaker Johnson saying extra prayers for our parachute riggers as 8 GOP House members jump for Normandy 80th!” Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) posted on X before the ...

while another more senior soldier working in logistics who was not a parachute rigger tested positive to cocaine. On March 6, Lance Corporal Fitzgibbon sustained fatal injuries during a "routine ...

An earlier incident in which a parachute malfunctioned March 8 killed five Palestinians and wounded several others, CNN reported. A CENTCOM statement at the time said the errant airdrop wasn’t a ...

An extraordinary video of a four-seater plane in the US gliding down to safety under a massive parachute left viewers awed last week. The plane, carrying Artem Konokuk, 38, his partner ...

A detachment of U.S. Army parachute riggers has worked around the clock since March 2 to build bundles of rations and water and pack the parachutes that guide the supplies to their landing spots ...

FORT MOORE, Ga.− Parachute riggers of the 1st Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade, pack the parachutes used daily in airborne training. Recently ...