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Aerial Delivery/Rigger

Post World War II

549th Quartermaster Company

Japan

1956

Post World War II

549th QM Co Parachute Storage

Japan

1956

Post World War II

549th QM Company

Container Display

1956

REFORGER '76 Germany

SP4 Raymond Allen (l) and SP4 Anthony Monplaisis (r), both of the 5th Quartermaster AD, reach for cable and hook from a CH-54 Skycrane Helicopter to attach a sling load of fuel drums during a Recovery Operations.

September/October 1976

Vietnam

Riggers at Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam.

February 1967

OPERATION "JUNCTION CITY" Vietnam

SP4 Russell Roever (New York City), Hq & Hq Co, 2nd Bn, 503rd Inf, 173rd Abn Bde (Sept), disconnects the parachute form a crate of 105mm howitzer ammunition in War Zone "C".

26-27 February 1967

(US Army Sp Photo Det, Pacific, SP5 James I. Hatton)

OPERATION “JUNCTION CITY” Vietnam

Artillery ammunition and C-rations, dropped by parachutes to the 82nd Arty, 196th Light Inf Bde, fall to the ground in War Zone "C", 70 miles north east of Saigon.

26 February 1967

(US Army Sp Photo Det, Pacific SP5 Robert C. Lafoon)

Vietnam

Parachute Maintenance/Repair Tent

Can Ranh Bay, Vietnam

February 1967

Vietnam

Riggers from 173rd Abn Bde (sep) rig pallet for Container Delivery System (CDS) drop by CV-2 (Caribou).

29-31 July 1966

(US Army Sp Photo Det, Pacific SFC Gilbert L. Meyers)

 

Rigger Students

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