The U.S. Army has seven parachute riggers at NCAD who oversee the fabrication, receipt, storage, and issue of airborne equipment, while maintaining an 18,000 cargo parachute contingency stock.
Civilian employees pack the parachutes.
The riggers inspect the parachutes and rig the containers. Fort Bragg requested supplies for five of its units. NCAD pulled 379 line items, inducing maintenance parts and soldier's supplies, and packaged the items on six pallets totaling 5,781 pounds. Riggers, responsible for resupply by sky, rigged the completed multiwall containers on special skids into the A-22 Cargo Bag Assembly. The pallets were dropped 100 to 125 feet from each other as part of a strategic resupply effort for a forward area.