ความหมายของคำว่า rigger หมายถึงบุคคลที่ได้รับการฝึกหรือได้รับประกาศนียบัตรของการพับร่ม การซ่อมบำรุงรักษาร่ม ดังนั้นริกเกอร์ จึงต้องมีควมรู้ความชำนาญเกี่ยวกับผ้าร่ม อุปกรณ์ประกอบตัวร่มอื่นๆ การเย็บ การซ่อมแก้ การปรับแต่งแก้ไข การบรรจุร่ม แลความรู้อื่นๆ ที่จำเป็นในพับร่ม และดูแลรักษาร่ม
ความหมายของผู้พับร่มในทางทหาร Military parachute riggers
หน่วยทหารทั่วโลกต่างก็มีการฝึกริกเกอร์ของตนเอง เพื่อสนับสนุนการหน่วยทหารพลร่มของตนเอง โดยบรรดาริกเกอร์เหล่านี้ไม่เพียงแต่จะรับผิดชอบในการพับร่มให้ทหารพลร่มกระโดดเท่านั้น แต่จะรวมถึงการบรรจุหีบห่อสิ่งของ สำหรับการปฏิบัติการทางทหาร เช่นอาหาร กระสุน หรือ อุปกรณ์ทางทหารอื่นๆ ด้วย
เครื่องหมายของริกเกอร์ (สหรัฐฯ)
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The U.S. Army Parachute Rigger's Badge
Riggers have played an important role in the American military since the advent of the use of the parachute for aerial insertion of troops, supplies, and equipment into combat zones. In addition to the maroon beret worn by paratroopers in airborne units, riggers are authorized the wear of a distinctive red baseball cap as their military headgear when on rigger duties.
U.S. Army. When the Army formed its first paratrooper unit in 1940, a parachute test platoon, the paratroopers themselves prepared and took care of their own parachutes. The test platoon had only 3 men, two enlisted soldiers and one warrant officer, from the Army Air Corps serving as the precursors of the Army's parachute riggers.
When the Army created five Airborne divisions for World War II, the Army stopped training each paratrooper how to pack his own chute and started support organizations for parachute packing and rigging. The first riggers received their training at Fort Benning, GA.
After 1950, the Army assigned the Quartermaster Corps with the mission of aerial delivery, including parachute rigging. A parachute rigger course was established at the U.S. Army Quartermaster School at Fort Lee, VA in 1951, and has continued since then.
Army Parachute Rigger recruits start their training at Airborne Orientation Course (AOC)[1], a course designed to prepare 92R0 recruits for success at Airborne School. AOC was, in the past at Ft Lee, VA, but is now at Ft Jackson, SC. The Airborne Orientation Course is designed to give riggers some preparation for the physical and mental trials of Airborne school, in particular the large amount of running required all Airborne students, as all US Army Parachute Riggers must be airborne qualified. From AOC, rigger recruits go to Airborne School at Ft Benning, GA. If a rigger recruit does not pass Airborne School, that soldier is reclassified. After Airborne School, the 92R0P recruits head to Ft Lee to attend the 13 week Parachute Rigger Course. The course is divided into three parts: Personnel Pack(pack), Aerial Delivery(AD), and Air Equipment Repair(AER). During their time at Fort Lee the Future Riggers must complete a parachute jump using a chute that they themselves have packed.
Service members from other branches of the U.S. Armed Forces also attend parachute rigger courses at Fort Lee.
U.S. Air Force. United States Air Force parachute riggers are trained at Sheppard AFB, Texas. The career field is classified under, "Aircrew Flight Equipment." (AFSC 1P0X1) Airmen attend a 3 1/2 month course learning to inspect, pack, and repair emergency parachutes. Once graduated from this technical school, students are assigned to a duty location where they are further instructed using on the job training. The Air Force's uniform regulation, AFI 36-2903, page 138, states the badge may be worn "only while permanently assigned to and performing duties with other services." This same limitation applies to the Army's Combat Infantry, Combat Medical, Air Assault and Pathfinder badges, as well as the Ranger tab. Despite the official restriction on the wear of the badge, USAF riggers may be seen wearing the cloth version of the badge on their BDUs in Aerial Delivery Branches of airlift wings' aerial port squadron.
U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. Parachute materials school was first established in 1924 at Lakehurst, NJ by two Navy Chiefs. Parachute Rigger, or "PR", became an enlisted job rating in 1942, but the name changed during the 1960s to Aircrew Survival Equipmentman. The United States Navy parachute riggers are now trained at Naval Air Station Pensacola during a 12 week (55 training day) school. When they graduate, they do become PRs, but the rating is called Aircrew Survival Equipmentman. While in school they go through 9 courses, 3 courses of "Common Core" skills over 19 days, 3 courses of Organizational-Level skills for 17 days, and finishing with 3 courses of Intermediate-Level skills for 19 days. The first week is sewing, dubbed by students and instructors alike as "Combat Sewing". Students will manufacture a "rigger bag" completely from scratch and will learn about tool control and FOD management. The next course is NB-8 parachutes, where students will learn basics of parachute rigging, inspection cycles and nomenclature. This is followed by a course of general survival equipement named ESE. Then "O" strand begins with Survival I Fixed Wing, followed by Survival II Rotory Wing, where students learn inspection and maintenance concepts unique to squadron level work. The final "O" level subject is Survival Radios. "I" strand will start with NES-12s, the Navy's most complicated parachute system, for advanced rigging concepts. Seat Survival Kits and Life Preservers finish out the entire course of instruction, where they will graduate upon completion. Classes average to about one week per class.
During the entire time of study students will undergo physical training at least three times a week, be subjected to rigorous inspections every Monday, and will march to and from the building, being accountable for showing up on time, cleanliness, and homework.
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