Every year, about 15,000 students perform five jumps from a live aircraft before graduating from the United States Army’s Airborne School, each depending on a parachute to get them safely to the ...

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 they ...

As national shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) left thousands of frontline medical personnel and emergency room staff exposed to a deadly novel coronavirus, commanders across the Army’s ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- It's become a competition for the soldiers of 647th Quartermaster Company to see who can crank out the most face masks during a shift. The parachute rigging unit is essential to ...

Even before the Department of Defense mandated earlier this month that people on military installations wear masks where social distancing can’t be maintained against the spread of COVID-19, the ...