Parachute Rigger Badge

Criteria: Awarded to enlisted and warrant officer personnel successfully completing the U.S. Army Quartermaster’s School’s Aerial Delivery and Field Services Department course-of-instruction at Fort Lee, Virginia. Riggers, prior, must first complete the Airborne Orientation Course at Fort Lee, Virginia, and the Basic Airborne Course at Fort Benning, Georgia. The Parachute Rigger Course is 10 weeks of intense training broken down into three phases: Parachute Pack, Aerial Delivery, and Aerial Delivery Maintenance. Instruction includes training in parachute rigging techniques, repair of inflatable rafts and other survival equipment, maintenance of oxygen equipment, and maintenance of air-sea rescue equipment. The Parachute Rigger Badge may also be awarded on occasion to officers, upon application to the Department of the Army under regulation AR 600-8-22. The Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, has approved retroactive award of the Parachute Rigger Badge to individuals who performed duties as a Parachute Rigger prior to establishment of the Parachute Rigger School at Fort Lee in May 1951.