There are a few guys on the current cadre who are trained soldiers, most of them are expected to come on all of the weekends, as well as CIC/P Coy. Unless you've already done P Coy or equivalent then I expect you'll have to do the whole lot, although they'll be less strict on making you turn up to ...

Again, i'm only going from my experience but there were a couple of guys on my cadre, one who was in 2 Para but left 5+ years previously and one who was in a very well respected TA regiment, neither had to do the training cadre. They just had to do a 10 miler to show they had kept up their fitness ...

In answer to number 3: There is currently a lot of talk about going to Afghanistan around about April 2008. Some say it will be boring force protection (I'm not saying that its not a worthwhile thing to be doing) but we were recently told that 4 Para is likely to be reinforcing the regular Para ...

I hope they put back P Coy by a few weeks, otherwise it'll be right in the middle of my exams.

Is there any point in me going on this training cadre even though I probably won't be able to do P Coy at the end?

I really want to get in there and get my beret ASAP as I heard that 4 Para may be ...

Hi, sorry if this is in the wrong place, but I've been trying to get in touch with someone at 10 Coy 4 Para for a while about joining for the next training cadre.

I went to White City to speak to someone in November and as the current training cadre was halfway through the man I spoke to said it ...