The Parachute Regiment - P Company

[daftandbarmy]

Selection for the Parachute Regiment.  Week 12 of recruit training. But they've left out all the sexy parts in the mountains in Wales... false advertising

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEJvvpCBZdY

 

[GHUMP]

I was wondering if there is a video on the actual parachutist course instead of P Company?

 

[daftandbarmy]

Here's the first BBC Series on the Parachute Regiment, done in 1982. The parachuting bits are in part 7. As you can tell, the British consider the parachuting the easiest part about being a paratrooper.

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmxiVK5I9dU&mode=related&search=

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnhxsjSOJS4&mode=related&search=

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vKH5vj9LLU&mode=related&search=

Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlpDvCY5n2I&mode=related&search=

Part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cekFAimyXM&mode=related&search=

Part 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_lRvGb1TNs&mode=related&search=

Part 7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KqXaZGM_Nc&mode=related&search=

 

[geo]

Not sure, but I thought I had heard that the MOD had decided to stop parachute training as it proceeds with it's restructure.

 

[daftandbarmy]

That's what I understand. I suspect they'll continue with the basic para courses but keep the big exercises down to a minimum. It's all been done before. In the late 70s/ early 80s they curtailed large airborne exercises for a short period of time, citing cost factors etc, but kept the training machine rolling.