A Parachute Rigger for US Army

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Patricia R Olsen, The Work Before the Parachute Jump; Sgt Virginia Musall, 28, is a parachute rigger for the Army at Fort Bragg, NC. New York Times, Feb 2, 2014 (under the heading Vocations[:] www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/jobs/ ... parachute-jump.html

Note:
(a) Fort Bragg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Bragg
(named for Confederate general Braxton Bragg [1817-1876])
(b) Parachuting, I once "landed in a tree and hung from a branch 50 feet off the ground for two hours. * * *  A wrecker truck with a telescoping arm raised a soldier to a few feet below me, and I climbed down to him."

Regarding wrecker truck.
(a) tow truck
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tow_truck
(also called a wrecker, a breakdown truck, recovery truck or a breakdown lorry)
(b) wrecker (n): "TOW TRUCK"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wrecker
(c) wrecker (n): "1804, in reference to those who salvage cargos from wrecked ships, from wreck (n). * * * As a type of ship employed in salvage operations, from 1789. As a railway vehicle with a crane or hoist, from 1904."
Online Etymology Dictionary, undated.
www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=wrecker