{"id":21579,"date":"2023-08-03T17:27:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T17:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=21579"},"modified":"2023-08-04T06:41:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T06:41:41","slug":"marine-corps-parachute-rigger-stresses-safety-readiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=21579","title":{"rendered":"Marine Corps Parachute Rigger Stresses Safety, Readiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>Marine Corps Sgt. Felix Lopez Saenz is a parachute rigger participating in Exercise Talisman Sabre 23 as a member of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Safety and readiness are repeatedly stressed when packing parachutes for people, weapons and other gear that will be released from helicopters or fixed-wing aircraft from a high or low altitude,&#8221; said the 21-year-old native of Orocovis, Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p><!--popup--><\/p>\n<p>Lopez Saenz arrived in Queensland, Australia, from Okinawa, Japan, aboard the amphibious assault ship USS America.<\/p>\n<p>After graduating from boot camp at U.S. Marine Corps Recruit Training Depot, Parris Island, South Carolina, Lopez Saenz went to quartermaster school at Fort Lee, Virginia, to learn his trade.\u202f<\/p>\n<p>As part of the training, he said he had to pack his own chute and jump out of an aircraft with it. Since that time, he&#8217;s jumped about 50 or more times.<\/p>\n<p>On July 28, 2023, Lopez Saenz said he was going to be packing a parachute later in the day that would drop off meals to U.S. Marines, Japanese and German forces in the vicinity of Midge Point, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The meals, loaded on pallets, are pushed off the aircraft on rails,&#8221; Lopez Saenz said. They don&#8217;t randomly land anywhere. Sensors on the pallets are programmed with specific grid coordinates, so the load floats down where it&#8217;s supposed to be.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez Saenz said his parents were not surprised when he told them he&#8217;d be enlisting. &#8220;They always knew I was the adventurous type, and jumping out of aircraft as a Marine is pretty adventurous,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>This year marks the 10th iteration of Talisman Sabre, a biennial exercise designed to advance a free and open Indo-Pacific by strengthening partnerships and interoperability among key allies. The spelling of the name \u2014 sabre vs. saber \u2014 reflects which country is leading the exercise: Talisman Sabre when Australia leads and Talisman Saber when the U.S. leads.\u202f<\/p>\n<p>Over 30,000 personnel and 13 nations are participating in this year&#8217;s full exercise. This year is the largest Talisman Sabre ever in its history, since the exercises began in 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine Corps Sgt. Felix Lopez Saenz is a parachute rigger participating in Exercise Talisman Sabre 23 as a member of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. &#8220;Safety and readiness are repeatedly stressed when packing parachutes for people, weapons and other gear that will be released from helicopters or fixed-wing aircraft from a high or low altitude,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":21581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21582,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21579\/revisions\/21582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}