Rigger School

You may recall the video we posted a while ago of three Humvees crashing to the ground during a less than wholly successful heavy drop during training in Germany. We still don’t know the results of that investigation, but here’s a 1967 Army training video that shows the basics of what a Parachute Rigger does,…

You may recall the video we posted a while ago of three Humvees crashing to the ground during a less than wholly successful heavy drop during training in Germany. We still don’t know the results of that investigation, but here’s a 1967 Army training video that shows the basics of what a Parachute Rigger does, both in preparing parachutes for people, and for heavy equipment. It’s almost a half century old, but the techniques, and indeed, much of the equipment, are still pretty much the same.

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  1. SFC Dunlap 173d RVN

    You are correct, the techniques don’t change the equipment does. I noted this film was made a year before I enlisted and ten years before going to the Parachute Riggers Course so most everything in the film is stuff I started out using and then maintaining throughout my career as a Rigger. Fun stuff.

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  2. Dave

    Wasn’t there a song about that incident?
    One hundred trucks we’ll drop today
    But only three fall all the way

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  3. SFC Dunlap 173d RVN

    That’s funny Dave. One of the other variations instead of “I Will Be Sure Always” goes “F&@k It, It’ll Open.” Mind you I didn’t like it and my soldiers (Riggers) knew I didn’t. The Quartermaster web site at Ft. Lee, VA. has some interesting Rigger history.

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  4. Casey

    Anyone up for “High Speed Dirt?”

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  5. timactual

    Nice video. Very informative. Thanks. I have some old sheets I was going to throw away, but now that I know how to build my own parachute…..
    to be cont.

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