THE Ministry of Defence (Mindef) released a statement today through The Singapore Army Facebook page in response to a viral Facebook post about SAF parachutes being outsourced to “foreign” “PRC ...

MIESAU ARMY DEPOT, Germany -- Parachute riggers are an airborne Soldier's best friend. When a Soldier jumps out of an airplane, he wants to be confident his parachute will be fully functional -- ...

WHAT: A request for information from the Army for an IT solution to track cargo and personnel parachute inventory. WHY: A lot of paperwork used to go into tracking parachutes to make sure they were ...

FORT LEE, Va. -- The U.S. Army Quartermaster School’s Aerial Delivery and Field Services Department dedicated one of its parachute-packing classrooms July 21 in memory of a XVIII Airborne Corps ...

The Texas Army National Guard has a group of special workers called riggers. Their job is to fold and pack the parachutes soldiers use when jumping from an airplane at 5,000 feet. These people are ...