Parachute riggers with 1st Battalion (Airborne), 143rd

Parachute riggers with 1st Battalion (Airborne), 143rd Infantry Regiment, get parachutes ready for the battalion's upcoming night mass tactical exercise June 18, 2014, at Camp Guernsey, Wyo. The exercise is a culmination of the unit's training as part of Golden Coyote 2014. The 1-143rd IR (ABN) is an elite Airborne Infantry unit comprised of paratroopers from units in Alaska, Rhode Island and Texas, capable of worldwide deployment to close with and destroy enemy forces using fire, maneuver and shock effect.