Will I Fit In With The Paras?

[Des]

You hear all sorts of stories about reasons for not joining a particular unit. I think some of these Recruiting types go by preconceived ideas about what certain units expect as opposed to finding out the facts.

A mate told me he got turned down for the paras because as he had a lot of debts he wouldn't have been able to go out for a drink withs his oppos. I know an ex air cadet that got advised to go for Marine instead of RAF Reg because he had a few A levels. I worked with an ex Welsh Guardsman and he told me he would have trouble getting in the Guards because he was a bit short. But when he got to the training depot he found there was quite a few shorter than him. In fact his own drill sgt was only about the same height.

[Bennie]

Why have the paras got the rep of being thugs? my friend joined the paras when he left school and hes a lunatic. im not saying they all are but i was just wandering how they got the rep theyve got. and well done to 3 para in afghanistan

[fleeter]

Ignore the people in the careers office,they are probably just jelous (cant spell),go for it mate,i'm a marine recruit but there isn't anything wrong with the para's,people shouldn't slag them off,great soldiers

[tom_06]

yes i agree,ignore the recruiter, in the army everyone is fiercely proud of their own regiment and the paras even more so and they are very derisive towards the 'craphats'!!which i beleive leads to a lot of negative feeling towards teh paras at times. this is my understanding of it anyway.

[Alfa]

and films like "Dead Man's Shoes".

ah my favourite film

Watched it on Tuesday for the first time on channel 4, absolutely fantastic film.

How fcukd up does that Richard look in his WWI Gas mask, I'd be shitting myself too if I saw him looking through my window in that too