COOLIDGE — The U.S. Marine Corps has suspended all double-bag static line parachuting operations until further notice after the death of a corporal earlier this week in Arizona. Marine Corps officials ...

Static-line parachuting has been a US military tactic since World War II. The use of a line that automatically pulls your parachute is an effective technique to deploy a large number of troops at a ...

COOLIDGE, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. Marine Corps has suspended all double-bag static line parachuting operations until further notice after the death of a corporal earlier this week in Arizona. Marine ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- Okinawa-based Special Operations Soldiers traveled here to support an airdrop certification test of the RA-1 Parachute System in the Double Bag Static Line configuration with the C ...