No safety nets at all in `72 on the old, rickety, red barred trainasium just over the A325 by Rushmoor Arena. I did that in Junior Para as well aged 15.. No headgear in the milling either. Then off to Abingdon to get your wings. 2 X Balloon jumps, then 2 x Aircraft clean fatigue jumps then another 4 jumps with equipment, one being a night jump. Great days, great lads. Sadly too many have gone now and more go every couple of months.
Got the tee-shirt, and eat pie back in 1981, so i'm an old sweet. When I did P Coy, was on the log race on sandy valley where the colonel lost his dog to a thunder flash (Top tip…Don’t throw a TF to start the race when you have a retriever) and his comments were (As we speed off was) My god…what am I going to tell the wife!
I was a soldier in the British army and I can tell you the government is NOT on your side. They send you overseas to a foreign country to kill the inhabitants and get your own body mutilated, then when you return they refuse to house you and instead house the very people you were fighting, the muslim hordes that corrupt politicians allowed in!
Canadian para (Master Corporal, ) similar training very high standards in all areas . looks similar. Canadian Airborne Regiment, we had no time for the weak " sick , lame and lazy !
@@bobnice3044 cool. Good for you. Was just asking when you passed through the course? You said it wasn't as hard as it was so I assumed you served in some capacity and was curious that's all.
Good vid. Where are you posted. Catterick still or moved on? Ive got an idea for recruitment video. Not done before. But think it would inspire gen z etc.
Morning Colonel Mike (surely at least Colonel by now) - tremendous video - reminds me of my younger days (65 now) when I was DS and watched everybody run but me :-) HAPPY DAYS
@@JammyDodger45 And a few trans. It is a big deal, though. It's a big move for the LGBTQ+ community and we should celebrate the fact that the Paras are leading the way.
@@OngoGablogian185 - your first attempt at 🎣 didn't work so this one has no hope. But good on you for trying to support your Trans community you 'girls' need all the help you can get.
And I read a lot of other regiments have nicked our saying. Once a para always a para. The worse one was Once RAF regiment always RAF regiment. Just after they finished the 5 mile of death to the NAAFI before they went on permanent gate guard. Gate up gate down gate up fucking gate down. Fuck enemy RUN, ow let's shoot my body armour as well. Lol
40 years ago next summer I did and passed p company at the age of 17. I was winged up in battalion before I was 18. The tranisium didn't have nets when I did it in the woods in Aldershot training area. Down by Farnham airfield I think it was. The run run jump net didn't have a wrap around net. It just had the net you had to punch a hole in the net. All the rest there was no nets only when you swung backwards onto a cargo net The parallel bars didn't have any safety net either. Plus we had just come off the stretcher run and I was fucked. We had to climb up the cargo net to the parallel bars. The only regiment in the British green army that has a test week to become a member of the parachute regiment.
The stretcher race was 7 miles then on Hankley Common plus the Assault course was a separate event with a 3 x round requirement. Or is my mind playing up in advanced years?
@@garrywynne1218 my p company was Aldershot training area, long valley, hungry hill ( flag staff ) a killer. The hardest event for a pure lung buster in my experience was the log run. You sprinted from start to finish. Chin strapped on that.
@@kyleham4330 no mate, after P company if you passed you did a three week exercise in the Brecon, you needed to pass that. Then to brize on your wings course. Then another exercise but jumping in etc.
2001-2018 and retired. I now sleep soundly in my bed because a new generation of 'rough men' stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. Utrinque Paratus!
@@Calvi36 - I love it when doddering senile has-beens like you grace us with your presence. Are you going to tell us how many punch ups you had in the Traf before clearing all the hats out of town? Way better than doing any actual soldiering.
Ought to add to it you watching this should consider being a MAN amongst Men. Not a computer game nerd sat at home playing. Do it for real out in the fresh air.
@@MikeThwaite mike do you remember colin Armstrong ie bravo 2 o Chris ryan gets away well his bro was my sgt also lee gleg I became close Ni vcp shoot ????
Bro I think 93 not to sure but endex 2007 plus brother I served will lee gleg an Arnold Armstrong in know to me I was on I night patrol , you know ecp then I'd found out via cpl brown now a teacher that Arnold was brother of coiln ie 22 know as Chris ryan hence bravo 2 o mind blowing
The good old days of the traf ie pub an church on a Sunday was a night club in kings London a bus from ham south west trains do you even remember the days of wearing desert boots an green bomber jackets is is b4 your time my first jump was sky bus then all my other was c130 pxmark 4 first jump then LLP the rest
