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Aircrew Survival Equipmentman First Class Ray Byers maintains tools used by parachute riggers

Aircrew Survival Equipmentman First Class Ray Byers maintains tools us...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: PHCS Ronald W. Bayles, USN Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Parachute riggers from the 3rd Mobile Aerial Port Squadron use an M13K rough terrain forklift to recover a pallet of supplies during an airdrop training session

Parachute riggers from the 3rd Mobile Aerial Port Squadron use an M13K...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Fort Bragg State: North Carolina(NC) Country: United States Of America(USA) Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Michael Haggerty Release Status: Release... More

During RODEO 94 Joint Airborne Inspection, loadmasters and parachute riggers are tested on their ability to prepare loads for delivery by air

During RODEO 94 Joint Airborne Inspection, loadmasters and parachute r...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: RODEO 94 Base: Mcchord Air Force Base State: Washington (WA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: ... More

A Baby Allie doll waits to be donated at the 16th Annual

A Baby Allie doll waits to be donated at the 16th Annual

A Baby Allie doll waits to be donated at the 16th Annual Randy Oler Memorial Operation Toy Drop, at Green Ramp, Pope Army Airfield, Fort Bragg, N.C., Dec. 6, 2013. The first phase of toy drop includes bringing ... More

Two US Air Force (USAF) parachute riggers assist a US Navy (USN) aviator into his flight gear in preparation for a flight in an EA-6B Prowler from Incirlik Air Base (AB), Turkey, during Operation NORTHERN WATCH

Two US Air Force (USAF) parachute riggers assist a US Navy (USN) aviat...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: NORTHERN WATCH Base: Incirlik Air Base, Adana Country: Turkey (TUR) Scene Major Command Shown: ACC Scene Camera Operator: TS... More

US Army (USA) Parachute riggers from Echo company 782nd Main Support Battalion (MSB), watch US Air Force (USAF) personnel from the 43rd Air Wing (AW), load a cargo pallet containing a High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) and an M198 Towed Howitzer 105 mm cannon for an airdrop mission aboard a C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft during Large Package Week at Pope Air Force Base (AFB), North Carolina (NC). Large Package Week is a joint US Army and US Air Force airdrop, designed to enhance service cohesiveness

US Army (USA) Parachute riggers from Echo company 782nd Main Support B...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Pope Air Force Base State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: Air Mobility Command Scene Cam... More

US Army (USA) Parachute riggers from Echo company 782nd Main Support Battalion (MSB), prepare the drop lines for parachutes that will pull a cargo load out of a US Air Force (USAF) C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft during Large Package Week at Pope Air Force Base (AFB), North Carolina (NC). Large Package Week is a joint US Army and US Air Force airdrop, designed to enhance service cohesiveness

US Army (USA) Parachute riggers from Echo company 782nd Main Support B...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Pope Air Force Base State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: Air Mobility Command Scene Cam... More

A C-17 Globemaster III aircraft drops supplies to members

A C-17 Globemaster III aircraft drops supplies to members

A C-17 Globemaster III aircraft drops supplies to members of Special Operations Task Force – South working in eastern Kandahar province, Afghanistan, Jan. 5, 2011.

Pvt. David Martinez with the 294th Quartermaster Company

Pvt. David Martinez with the 294th Quartermaster Company

Pvt. David Martinez with the 294th Quartermaster Company repacks his parachute after a practice jump during annual training at Camp Swift, Texas, Aug. 15. The riggers in the 294th participated in the training f... More

Command Sgt. Maj. Stephan Frennier, Third Army/ARCENT

Command Sgt. Maj. Stephan Frennier, Third Army/ARCENT

Command Sgt. Maj. Stephan Frennier, Third Army/ARCENT senior enlisted advisor and Whitehouse, Texas, native, poses for a group photo with parachute riggers with the U.S. Army Reserve, 421st Quartermaster Compan... More

Lance Cpl. David Lopez, a Combat Logistics Regiment-2

Lance Cpl. David Lopez, a Combat Logistics Regiment-2

Lance Cpl. David Lopez, a Combat Logistics Regiment-2 parachute rigger and a native of Miami, tightens and secures a Marine’s parachute pack to make sure it is ready to go at Auxiliary Airfield 2, Marine Corps ... More

Parachute Riggers from the 824th Quartermaster Company

Parachute Riggers from the 824th Quartermaster Company

Parachute Riggers from the 824th Quartermaster Company (Heavy Airdrop Supply) at Fort Bragg, N.C., pack personnel parachutes Nov. 20, 2012, in preparation for the 15th annual Randy Oler Memorial Operation Toy D... More

Parachute packer Army Pvt. David Fosbinder from the

Parachute packer Army Pvt. David Fosbinder from the

Parachute packer Army Pvt. David Fosbinder from the 4th Quartermaster Detachment points to rigger checks for each step required to pack parachutes on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Jan. 15. He ensures each st... More

U.S. Army Pfc. Hanook M. Chi, a parachute rigger with

U.S. Army Pfc. Hanook M. Chi, a parachute rigger with

U.S. Army Pfc. Hanook M. Chi, a parachute rigger with Task Force Lifeliner, tapes up the sling apex fitting to prevent entanglement during hookup and lift-off on sling load operations at Bagram Air Field, Parwa... More

Caribou LCLA airdrops, Afghanistan

Caribou LCLA airdrops, Afghanistan

Supply aerial bundles, packaged by the 647th Quartermaster Detachment in support of Task Force Lifeliner, for a low cost low altitude airdrop delivery are in a DHC-4T Turbo Caribou aircraft at Bagram Airfield, ... More

U.S. Army Spc. Steven Payne secures straps to hold

U.S. Army Spc. Steven Payne secures straps to hold

U.S. Army Spc. Steven Payne secures straps to hold energy dissipating material to fuel barrels at the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing in Southwest Asia, Sept. 23, 2013. The cardboard-like material is used to absor... More

Spc. Luis C. Aguilar, a parachute rigger with the 861st

Spc. Luis C. Aguilar, a parachute rigger with the 861st

Spc. Luis C. Aguilar, a parachute rigger with the 861st Quartermaster Company Detachment 1 and a Nashville, Tenn. native, rigs a palette of water at al Udeid Air Base, Qatar on Nov. 11, 2013. The 861st QM Co. ... More

Marines with 1st Air Delivery Platoon, Landing Support

Marines with 1st Air Delivery Platoon, Landing Support

Marines with 1st Air Delivery Platoon, Landing Support Company, Combat Logistics Regiment 17, 1st Marine Logistics Group, practice landing drills before conducting parachute operations aboard Camp Pendleton, Ca... More

Master Sgt. Dwight Simon, a jumpmaster with the U.S.

Master Sgt. Dwight Simon, a jumpmaster with the U.S.

Master Sgt. Dwight Simon, a jumpmaster with the U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (Airborne), inspects Sgt. 1st Class Lisa Dodd, also with USACAPOC(A), during a joint airborne operati... More

Airmen from the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility

Airmen from the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility

Airmen from the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility prepare a C-130H Hercules for take-off prior to a humanitarian aid mission Aug. 9, 2014. To date, in coordination with the government of Iraq, U.S. mi... More

Paratroopers fill the sky at Sicily Drop Zone for the

Paratroopers fill the sky at Sicily Drop Zone for the

Paratroopers fill the sky at Sicily Drop Zone for the 17th Annual Randy Oler Memorial Operation Toy Drop, hosted by the U.S. Army Civil Affairs & Psychological Operations Command (Airborne), a U.S. Army Reserve... More

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Jerod Zuniga, noncommissioned

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Jerod Zuniga, noncommissioned

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Jerod Zuniga, noncommissioned officer of the 294th Quartermaster Company, Austin, Texas, conducts a safety brief to the riggers as part of an airborne operation in the support of the Golden... More

U.S. Army Sgt. Anulfo Solares, with the 294th Quartermaster

U.S. Army Sgt. Anulfo Solares, with the 294th Quartermaster

U.S. Army Sgt. Anulfo Solares, with the 294th Quartermaster Company, Austin, Texas, properly weaves the suspension lines of a parachute bag in the support of the Golden Coyote training exercise on Camp Guernsey... More

U.S. Army parachute riggers assigned to the Headquarters

U.S. Army parachute riggers assigned to the Headquarters

U.S. Army parachute riggers assigned to the Headquarters and Headquarters Company 173rd Brigade Support Battalion prepare to store parachutes, June 17, 2015, at Aviano Air Base, Italy. Parachute riggers are res... More

AL UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar - Soldiers with the 824th

AL UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar - Soldiers with the 824th

AL UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar - Soldiers with the 824th Quartermaster Co. (Detachment 1) “Riggers,” 17th Sustainment Brigade, 1st Sustainment Command (Theater), work on an assembly line preparing packages for air dr... More

U.S Army Staff Sgt. Cruz Celis, noncommissioned officer

U.S Army Staff Sgt. Cruz Celis, noncommissioned officer

U.S Army Staff Sgt. Cruz Celis, noncommissioned officer in charge of the parachute riggers assigned to 601st Quartermaster Company, Brigade Support Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade, gives a brief to Paratroope... More

U.S. Army paratrooper Staff Sgt. Thomas Collier, Charlie

U.S. Army paratrooper Staff Sgt. Thomas Collier, Charlie

U.S. Army paratrooper Staff Sgt. Thomas Collier, Charlie Battery, 1-319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment descend from a aircraft during an airborne operation for the XIX Annual Randy Oler Memorial Operation ... More

Capt. Lester Manding, Headquarters and Headquarters

Capt. Lester Manding, Headquarters and Headquarters

Capt. Lester Manding, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 407th Brigade Support Battalion 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Divison, receives Canadian jump wings from Capt. Andrew Adach, Canadian Army A... More

Sgt. Brendan Tuxbury, left, and Sgt. Justin Belcher,

Sgt. Brendan Tuxbury, left, and Sgt. Justin Belcher,

Sgt. Brendan Tuxbury, left, and Sgt. Justin Belcher, parachute riggers with Air Delivery Platoon, Landing Support Company, 3rd Transportation Support Battalion, wait to conduct cargo delivery drops from a C-130... More

Falling with style: Rough Riders conduct air delivery operations

Falling with style: Rough Riders conduct air delivery operations

Sgt. Brendan Tuxbury (left), a parachute rigger with Air Delivery Platoon, Landing Support Company, 3rd Transportation Support Battalion, inspects fellow parachute rigger Lance Cpl. Jeff Rosario’s parachute bef... More

Army Private Kylie Nielsen, a native of Boise, Idaho,

Army Private Kylie Nielsen, a native of Boise, Idaho,

Army Private Kylie Nielsen, a native of Boise, Idaho, assigned to the 4th Quartermaster Company, 725th Brigade Support Battalion (Airborne), 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, ... More

U.S. Army jump master, Sgt. Katelyn Garret and Royal

U.S. Army jump master, Sgt. Katelyn Garret and Royal

U.S. Army jump master, Sgt. Katelyn Garret and Royal Moroccan Armed Forces paratroopers pull the static line and deployment bags back into a C-130J Super Hercules during Exercise African Lion 18, April 16, 2018... More

A Royal Moroccan Armed Forces paratrooper receives

A Royal Moroccan Armed Forces paratrooper receives

A Royal Moroccan Armed Forces paratrooper receives a U.S. Air Force 37th Airlift Squadron patch from a 37th AS loadmaster, during Exercise African Lion 18, April 16, 2018 at Rabat Airfield, Morocco. African Lio... More

Col. Maj. Nezar Jaafri, center, and Capt. Zohair Elqoubii,

Col. Maj. Nezar Jaafri, center, and Capt. Zohair Elqoubii,

Col. Maj. Nezar Jaafri, center, and Capt. Zohair Elqoubii, right, 1st Brigade Infantry Airborne loadmasters, speak with Exercise African Lion 18 U.S. Air Force command staff, April 18, 2018 at Kenitra Air Base,... More

U.S. Army 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team airborne

U.S. Army 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team airborne

U.S. Army 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team airborne parachute riggers, put cardboard under a container delivery system load for balance support during Exercise African Lion 18, April 18, 2018 at Kenitra Air B... More

Royal Moroccan Armed Forces Sgt. Chief Salwa Elbhiri,

Royal Moroccan Armed Forces Sgt. Chief Salwa Elbhiri,

Royal Moroccan Armed Forces Sgt. Chief Salwa Elbhiri, a nurse and midwife, secures a harness during Exercise African Lion 2018, April 19, 2018, at Kenitra Air Base, Morocco. The Moroccan Royal Armed Forces serv... More

Cargo is dropped from the ramp of a U.S. Marine Corps

Cargo is dropped from the ramp of a U.S. Marine Corps

Cargo is dropped from the ramp of a U.S. Marine Corps KC-130J during Bayonet Strike, a bi-lateral training exercise with Spanish paratroopers, U.S. Army paratroopers and Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air-... More

Marines with Landing Support Company, 3rd Transportation

Marines with Landing Support Company, 3rd Transportation

Marines with Landing Support Company, 3rd Transportation Support Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, wait next to the Camp Foster parade deck to board a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter during parachute and ... More

Cargo bundles belonging to Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground

Cargo bundles belonging to Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground

Cargo bundles belonging to Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Africa are dropped from a U.S. Marine Corps KC-130J during a Joint Precision Autonomous Delivery System (JPADS) joint exer... More

U.S. Army Reserve Sgt. Patrick Vinzani tugs on a strap

U.S. Army Reserve Sgt. Patrick Vinzani tugs on a strap

U.S. Army Reserve Sgt. Patrick Vinzani tugs on a strap that holds a low-cost parachute to a platform of simulated ammunition in preparation of an airdrop March 7, 2020. Vinzani is a parachute rigger assigned to... More

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. -- A parachute rigger

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. -- A parachute rigger

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. -- A parachute rigger with 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne), Group Support Battalion, sews surgical masks for medical patients at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., March 31, 20... More

Lance Cpl. Ben Nutting cuts nylon cord to use as pull

Lance Cpl. Ben Nutting cuts nylon cord to use as pull

Lance Cpl. Ben Nutting cuts nylon cord to use as pull strings for masks on Camp Foster, Okinawa, Japan, April 8, 2020. Parachute riggers with 3rd Air Delivery Platoon assembled masks to help stop the spread of ... More

Paratroopers turn in their parachutes during the 16th

Paratroopers turn in their parachutes during the 16th

Paratroopers turn in their parachutes during the 16th Annual Randy Oler Memorial Operation Toy Drop, at Sicily Drop Zone, Fort Bragg, N.C., Dec. 7, 2013. While the weather did not cooperate earlier in the day, ... More

Soldiers lined up as early as 1 a.m. for a chance to

Soldiers lined up as early as 1 a.m. for a chance to

Soldiers lined up as early as 1 a.m. for a chance to earn a coveted seat for the 16th Annual Randy Oler Memorial Operation Toy Drop, at Green Ramp, Pope Army Airfield, Fort Bragg, N.C., Dec. 6, 2013. The first ... More

A C-17 Globemaster III drops supplies to members of

A C-17 Globemaster III drops supplies to members of

A C-17 Globemaster III drops supplies to members of Special Operations Task Force – South working in eastern Kandahar province, Afghanistan, Jan. 5, 2011.

Lance Cpl. Miguel Chavez, Marine Aviation Logistics

Lance Cpl. Miguel Chavez, Marine Aviation Logistics

Lance Cpl. Miguel Chavez, Marine Aviation Logistics 13 parachute rigger, inspects a parachute in the paraloft at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Ariz., July 21, 2011. Section A, or alpha, in the paraloft ... More

Pvt. David Martinez with the 294th Quartermaster Company

Pvt. David Martinez with the 294th Quartermaster Company

Pvt. David Martinez with the 294th Quartermaster Company repacks his parachute after a practice jump during annual training at Camp Swift, Texas, Aug. 15. The riggers in the 294th participated in the training f... More

Parachute Rigger Marines with Combat Logistics Regiment-2

Parachute Rigger Marines with Combat Logistics Regiment-2

Parachute Rigger Marines with Combat Logistics Regiment-2 line up and walk towards the UH-1Y for a static line parachute jump at Auxiliary Airfield 2, Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Oct. 5. During deployments, ... More

Spc. Leslie Ames, a parachute rigger with the 824th

Spc. Leslie Ames, a parachute rigger with the 824th

Spc. Leslie Ames, a parachute rigger with the 824th Quartermaster Co. (Heavy Airdrop Supply), Fort Bragg, N.C., cuts cotton webbing after securing a deployment bag flap on a T-10 parachute Nov. 20, 2012, in pre... More

Soldiers from the 4th Quartermaster Detachment, assembles

Soldiers from the 4th Quartermaster Detachment, assembles

Soldiers from the 4th Quartermaster Detachment, assembles a newly-arrived parachute on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Jan. 15. They ensure there are no rips of faulty attachments present while they assemble t... More

U.S. Army Spc. Vonza Abney, a parachute rigger with

U.S. Army Spc. Vonza Abney, a parachute rigger with

U.S. Army Spc. Vonza Abney, a parachute rigger with Task Force Lifeliner, tapes up sling straps to prevent entanglement during hookup and lift-off on sling load operations at Bagram Air Field, Parwan province, ... More

U.S. Army Spc. Steven Payne cuts straps to hold energy

U.S. Army Spc. Steven Payne cuts straps to hold energy

U.S. Army Spc. Steven Payne cuts straps to hold energy dissipating material to fuel barrels at the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing in Southwest Asia, Sept. 23, 2013. The cardboard-like material is used to absorb t... More

Spc. Valerie L. Reed, a parachute rigger with the 861st

Spc. Valerie L. Reed, a parachute rigger with the 861st

Spc. Valerie L. Reed, a parachute rigger with the 861st Quartermaster Company Detachment 1 and a Clarksville, Tenn. native, ties down a load at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar on Nov. 11, 2013. The 861st QM Co. is th... More

Sergeant Mark Ellis, operations chief, 1st Air Delivery

Sergeant Mark Ellis, operations chief, 1st Air Delivery

Sergeant Mark Ellis, operations chief, 1st Air Delivery Platoon, Landing Support Company, Combat Logistics Regiment 17, 1st Marine Logistics Group, checks a parachute on Lance Cpl. Steven R. Brooks, a parachute... More

A U.S. Army Reserve Soldier, with the U.S. Army Civil

A U.S. Army Reserve Soldier, with the U.S. Army Civil

A U.S. Army Reserve Soldier, with the U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (Airborne), makes a final adjustment to her parachute during a joint airborne operation with the 440th Airlift ... More

Straps secure water bundles aboard a C-130H Hercules

Straps secure water bundles aboard a C-130H Hercules

Straps secure water bundles aboard a C-130H Hercules before a humanitarian airdrop over Iraq, Aug. 9, 2014. To date, in coordination with the government of Iraq, U.S. military aircraft have delivered more than ... More

Soldiers wait patiently and pass the time doing almost

Soldiers wait patiently and pass the time doing almost

Soldiers wait patiently and pass the time doing almost anything hoping their ticket number will be called for an opportunity to earn foreign jump wings at the 17th Annual Randy Oler Memorial Operation Toy Drop,... More

U.S. Soldiers, with the 294th Quartermaster Company,

U.S. Soldiers, with the 294th Quartermaster Company,

U.S. Soldiers, with the 294th Quartermaster Company, Austin, Texas, line up the parachutes during an airborne operation in the support of the Golden Coyote training exercise on Camp Guernsey, Guernsey, Wyo., Ju... More

U.S. Army Sgt. Blake Elliot, with the 294th Quartermaster

U.S. Army Sgt. Blake Elliot, with the 294th Quartermaster

U.S. Army Sgt. Blake Elliot, with the 294th Quartermaster Company, Austin, Texas, properly prepares a parachute bag in the support of the Golden Coyote training exercise on Camp Guernsey, Guernsey, Wyo., June 1... More

Parachutes hang in the tower to air dry, June 17, 2015,

Parachutes hang in the tower to air dry, June 17, 2015,

Parachutes hang in the tower to air dry, June 17, 2015, at Aviano Air Base, Italy. The parachutes are hung to prevent molding and to help remove debris that may have been tangled in it during jumps. (U.S. Air F... More

Parachute riggers with the 842nd Quartermaster Company

Parachute riggers with the 842nd Quartermaster Company

Parachute riggers with the 842nd Quartermaster Company of Fort Bragg, N.C., load Container Delivery System airdrop bundles Aug. 12, 2015, on to a Halverson loader at the Sparta-Fort McCoy (Wis.) Airport during ... More

AL UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar - Sgt. David Neumeister, parachute

AL UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar - Sgt. David Neumeister, parachute

AL UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar - Sgt. David Neumeister, parachute rigger with the 824th Quartermaster Co. (Detachment 1) “Riggers,” 17th Sustainment Brigade, 1st Sustainment Command (Theater), who’s from Evans, Georg... More

U.S. Army Pfc. Estefan Daza, native of Miami, Fla.,

U.S. Army Pfc. Estefan Daza, native of Miami, Fla.,

U.S. Army Pfc. Estefan Daza, native of Miami, Fla., 19-year-old parachute rigger, assigned to 601st Quartermaster Company, Brigade Support Battalion, 173rd Airborne Bridade, passes a parachute to a Paratrooper ... More

U.S. Army paratrooper Staff Sgt. Thomas Collier, Charlie

U.S. Army paratrooper Staff Sgt. Thomas Collier, Charlie

U.S. Army paratrooper Staff Sgt. Thomas Collier, Charlie Battery, 1-319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment descend from a aircraft during an airborne operation for the XIX Annual Randy Oler Memorial Operation ... More

Capt. Benjamin Paul Charlie Company, 407th Brigade

Capt. Benjamin Paul Charlie Company, 407th Brigade

Capt. Benjamin Paul Charlie Company, 407th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team 82nd Airborne Divison receives Canadian jump wings from Capt. Andrew Adach, Canadian Army Advance Warfare Center, du... More

Spc. Destiny Smith, 350th Human Resources Company signs

Spc. Destiny Smith, 350th Human Resources Company signs

Spc. Destiny Smith, 350th Human Resources Company signs for her meal from Spc. Savannah Yerdon, 1018th Quartermaster Company, during the XIX Annual Randy Oler Memorial Operation Toy Drop, hosted by U.S. Army Ci... More

Marines with Air Delivery Platoon, Landing Support

Marines with Air Delivery Platoon, Landing Support

Marines with Air Delivery Platoon, Landing Support Company, 3rd Transportation Support Battalion, wait to board a C-130 at Kadena Air Force Base, Okinawa, Japan, Jan. 10, 2018. The Marines with LS Co. conducted... More

A parachute rigger’s cover is seen on a table as Soldiers

A parachute rigger’s cover is seen on a table as Soldiers

A parachute rigger’s cover is seen on a table as Soldiers assigned to the 4th Quartermaster Company, 725th Brigade Support Battalion (Airborne), 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Divisi... More

A Royal Moroccan Armed Forces paratrooper prepares

A Royal Moroccan Armed Forces paratrooper prepares

A Royal Moroccan Armed Forces paratrooper prepares for a personnel drop during Exercise African Lion 18, April 16, 2018 near Kenitra Air Base. Approximately 900 U.S. military personnel have arrived in the Kingd... More

Royal Moroccan Air Forces Col. Abderramawe Douyissi,

Royal Moroccan Air Forces Col. Abderramawe Douyissi,

Royal Moroccan Air Forces Col. Abderramawe Douyissi, the Health Division deputy chief, prepares to carry a litter during Exercise African Lion 2018, April 19, 2018, at Kenitra Air Base, Morocco. The exercise is... More

Ramstein Air Base Airmen load Joint Precision Airdrop

Ramstein Air Base Airmen load Joint Precision Airdrop

Ramstein Air Base Airmen load Joint Precision Airdrop System with a Modular Autonomous Guidance Units bundles onto a C-130J Super Hercules during Exercise African Lion 18, April 18, 2018 at Kenitra Air Base, Mo... More

Cargo is dropped from the ramp of a U.S. Marine Corps

Cargo is dropped from the ramp of a U.S. Marine Corps

Cargo is dropped from the ramp of a U.S. Marine Corps KC-130J during Bayonet Strike, a bi-lateral training exercise with Spanish paratroopers, U.S. Army paratroopers and Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air-... More

Marines with Landing Support Company, 3rd Transportation

Marines with Landing Support Company, 3rd Transportation

Marines with Landing Support Company, 3rd Transportation Support Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, board a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter during parachute and air delivery training operations Aug. 14, 20... More

U.S. Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground

U.S. Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground

U.S. Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Africa and Spanish paratroopers pose for a group photo during a Joint Precision Autonomous Delivery System (JPADS) joint exercise w... More

A parachute rigger secures a strap holding a low-cost

A parachute rigger secures a strap holding a low-cost

A parachute rigger secures a strap holding a low-cost parachute used for cargo to a platform of simulated ammunition during his monthly battle assembly March 7, 2020, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The rigger a... More

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. -- Parachute riggers

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. -- Parachute riggers

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. -- Parachute riggers with 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne), Group Support Battalion, sew surgical masks for medical patients at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., March 31, 2020... More

Parachute riggers with 3rd Air Delivery Platoon used

Parachute riggers with 3rd Air Delivery Platoon used

Parachute riggers with 3rd Air Delivery Platoon used their sewing skills to assemble masks to help stop the spread of COVID-19 on Camp Foster, Okinawa, Japan, April 8, 2020. In line with the Centers for Disease... More

U.S. Army Spc. Valerie Reed ties straps to hold energy

U.S. Army Spc. Valerie Reed ties straps to hold energy

U.S. Army Spc. Valerie Reed ties straps to hold energy dissipating material to fuel barrels at the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing in Southwest Asia, Sept. 23, 2013. The cardboard-like material is used to absorb t... More

Soldiers pass the time playing spades waiting to donate

Soldiers pass the time playing spades waiting to donate

Soldiers pass the time playing spades waiting to donate their toys during the 16th Annual Randy Oler Memorial Operation Toy Drop, at Green Ramp, Pope Army Airfield, Fort Bragg, N.C., Dec. 6, 2013. The first pha... More

Taylor Ballinger and her dog, Stryker, wait for her

Taylor Ballinger and her dog, Stryker, wait for her

Taylor Ballinger and her dog, Stryker, wait for her husband, Spc. William Allen Ballinger, to jump the 16th Annual Randy Oler Memorial Operation Toy Drop at Sicily Drop Zone, Fort Bragg, N.C., Dec. 7, 2013. Whi... More

A C-17 Globemaster III drops supplies to members of

A C-17 Globemaster III drops supplies to members of

A C-17 Globemaster III drops supplies to members of Special Operations Task Force – South working in eastern Kandahar province, Afghanistan, Jan. 5, 2011.

Lance Cpl. Miguel Chavez, Marine Aviation Logistics

Lance Cpl. Miguel Chavez, Marine Aviation Logistics

Lance Cpl. Miguel Chavez, Marine Aviation Logistics 13 parachute rigger, inspects a parachute in the paraloft at Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Ariz., July 21, 2011. Section A, or alpha, in the paraloft rigs... More

Pvt. David Martinez with the 294th Quartermaster Company

Pvt. David Martinez with the 294th Quartermaster Company

Pvt. David Martinez with the 294th Quartermaster Company repacks his parachute after a practice jump during annual training at Camp Swift, Texas, Aug. 15. The riggers in the 294th participated in the training f... More

Lance Cpl. Michael May, a Combat Logistics Regiment-2

Lance Cpl. Michael May, a Combat Logistics Regiment-2

Lance Cpl. Michael May, a Combat Logistics Regiment-2 parachute rigger and a native of Houston, looks toward the sky as his fellow Marines parachute down at Auxiliary Airfield 2, Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Oct 5.

Sgt. James Hagans, right, inspects a parachute log

Sgt. James Hagans, right, inspects a parachute log

Sgt. James Hagans, right, inspects a parachute log record book while Spc. Patrick Pelland looks on at Fort Bragg, N.C., Nov. 20, 2012, in preparation for the 15th annual Randy Oler Memorial Operation Toy Drop. ... More

Army Pvt. Antonio Saez, a parachute packer from the

Army Pvt. Antonio Saez, a parachute packer from the

Army Pvt. Antonio Saez, a parachute packer from the 4th Quartermaster Detachment, demonstrates what a soldier looks like while wearing a parachute on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Jan. 15. He showed how to p... More

U.S. Army Pfc. Hanook M. Chi, a parachute rigger with

U.S. Army Pfc. Hanook M. Chi, a parachute rigger with

U.S. Army Pfc. Hanook M. Chi, a parachute rigger with Task Force Lifeliner, adds a missing spacer to the clevis on sling legs during sling load operations at Bagram Air Field, Parwan province, Afghanistan, Aug.... More

Spc. Molly M. Burrows, a parachute rigger with the

Spc. Molly M. Burrows, a parachute rigger with the

Spc. Molly M. Burrows, a parachute rigger with the 861st Quartermaster Company Detachment 1 and an Eagleville, Tenn. native, and Spc. Jefferson B. Thomas, a parachute rigger with the 861st Quartermaster Company... More

Marines parachuted from CH-46 Sea Knights when Marines

Marines parachuted from CH-46 Sea Knights when Marines

Marines parachuted from CH-46 Sea Knights when Marines with 1st Air Delivery Platoon, Landing Support Company, Combat Logistics Regiment 17, 1st Marine Logistics Group, conducted parachute operations aboard Cam... More

Paratroopers wait in a hangar before boarding a C-130H

Paratroopers wait in a hangar before boarding a C-130H

Paratroopers wait in a hangar before boarding a C-130H Hercules transport during a joint airborne operation with the 440th Airlift Wing from Pope Army Airfield, April 17, 2014. Sixty active and Army Reserve Sol... More

Staff Sgt. Daniel Leavindofske, 8th Expeditionary Air

Staff Sgt. Daniel Leavindofske, 8th Expeditionary Air

Staff Sgt. Daniel Leavindofske, 8th Expeditionary Air Mobility Squadron ramp team chief and Senior Airman David Babcock, air transportation journeyman, assist with loading bundles of halal meals on to a C-17 Gl... More

Paratroopers line the street before the sun rises,

Paratroopers line the street before the sun rises,

Paratroopers line the street before the sun rises, waiting to donate their toys in hopes of receiving a winning lottery ticket for the opportunity to earn foreign jump wings at the 17th Annual Randy Oler Memori... More

U.S. Army Spc. Natasha Rodriguez, with 294th Quartermaster

U.S. Army Spc. Natasha Rodriguez, with 294th Quartermaster

U.S. Army Spc. Natasha Rodriguez, with 294th Quartermaster Company, Austin, Texas, packs the side of the parachute during an airborne operation in the support of the Golden Coyote training exercise on Camp Guer... More

U.S. Army Spc. Mario Vallejo, Headquarters and Headquarters

U.S. Army Spc. Mario Vallejo, Headquarters and Headquarters

U.S. Army Spc. Mario Vallejo, Headquarters and Headquarters Company 173rd Brigade Support Battalion parachute packer, stores parachutes, June 17, 2015, at Aviano Air Base, Italy. In addition to packing, riggers... More

AL UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar - Sgt. David Neumeister, parachute

AL UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar - Sgt. David Neumeister, parachute

AL UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar - Sgt. David Neumeister, parachute rigger with the 824th Quartermaster Co. (Detachment 1) “Riggers,” 17th Sustainment Brigade, 1st Sustainment Command (Theater), who's from Evans, Georg... More

A parachute riggers assigned to 601st Quartermaster

A parachute riggers assigned to 601st Quartermaster

A parachute riggers assigned to 601st Quartermaster Company, Brigade Support Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade, passes a parachute to a Paratrooper assigned to 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airb... More

U.S. Army paratrooper Staff Sgt. Thomas Collier, Charlie

U.S. Army paratrooper Staff Sgt. Thomas Collier, Charlie

U.S. Army paratrooper Staff Sgt. Thomas Collier, Charlie Battery, 1-319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment lands from a aircraft during an airborne operation for the XIX Annual Randy Oler Memorial Operation To... More

Soldiers observe as paratroopers descend from a aircraft

Soldiers observe as paratroopers descend from a aircraft

Soldiers observe as paratroopers descend from a aircraft during an airborne operation for the XIX Annual Randy Oler Memorial Operation Toy Drop, hosted by U.S. Army Civil Affairs & Psychological Operations Comm... More

Spc. Wilfredo Colon, 942nd Transportation Company prepares

Spc. Wilfredo Colon, 942nd Transportation Company prepares

Spc. Wilfredo Colon, 942nd Transportation Company prepares breakfast for Spc. Destiny Smith, 350th Human Resources Company, during the XIX Annual Randy Oler Memorial Operation Toy Drop, hosted by U.S. Army Civi... More

Marines with Air Delivery Platoon, Landing Support

Marines with Air Delivery Platoon, Landing Support

Marines with Air Delivery Platoon, Landing Support Company, 3rd Transportation Support Battalion, wait to board a C-130 at Kadena Air Force Base, Okinawa, Japan, Jan. 10, 2018. The Marines with LS Co. conducted... More

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