Pvt. Harley Hill, a Quartermaster School Rigger Course student, waits with her classmates prior to boarding an aircraft on the tarmac at Fort Pickett’s Blackstone Army Airfield for an airborne operation April 20. Part of the 11-week course’s culmination training, it requires students to pack their own parachutes with which to jump.

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