As a new jumpmaster, Tankelewicz will bring his expertise to his job as a parachute rigger at DEVCOM SC. He believes that his jumpmaster training complements his parachute rigging responsibilities.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with 1st Sgt. Micah Symmonds, a US Army jumpmaster in the 11th Airborne Division based in Alaska. It's been edited for length and clarity.

The 21st Theater Sustainment Command's 5th Quartermaster Company played host to a jumpmaster mobile training team from the U.S. Army Jumpmaster School at Fort Benning, Ga.

A paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division was getting ready to jump toward the earth when a sharp-eyed jumpmaster stepped in and saved him from a potentially fatal injury — a split-second ...

PAPA, HUNGARY — Lives depend on U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Ontario Conyer doing his job. As 5th Quartermaster Theater Aerial Delivery Company’s shop foreman and Senior Jumpmaster, service member ...

The Army will recode nearly 20,000 paid parachutist positions in a major restructuring of its airborne forces aimed at improving readiness, service officials said. The recoding means the positions ...