No jumps for Paras as MoD cuts £1bn

Paraintraining · Post by **Paraintraining** » Fri 09 Feb, 2007 10:01 pm

I don't want to be a penguin all my life... get some stick for that!!

sloth · Post by **sloth** » Fri 09 Feb, 2007 10:53 pm

your not even a penguin yet!!!!! they are about 3 notches up the food chain from you

conscentrate on getting past RSC then to depo then through p coy before you make dashing staements like that young man

Paraintraining · Post by **Paraintraining** » Sat 10 Feb, 2007 11:53 pm

Passed ADSC no problem, got Depot and P company to work for now. Big point there, thanks! I've not even earned the right to be a penguin!!

liam beasant · Post by **liam beasant** » Tue 13 Mar, 2007 4:14 pm

this could be incorrect but my afco said that jumps arent canceled as there has been such an increase in the amount of people joining the paras that powers that be have scrapped this idea but there is a backlog. That means recruits might be waiting a while before jumps training but you will get your wings para pay etc. This could be bullshit from my afco to make sure i still join but shes been straight so far so I believe her.

Sarastro · Post by **Sarastro** » Wed 14 Mar, 2007 9:17 am

Liam, it seems that nobody knows what is going on at the moment. We've been told four different things at 4 PARA at different times. Likelyhood is that this means the powers that be are pissing around with the final decision, so only policy is wait and see.

liam beasant · Post by **liam beasant** » Thu 15 Mar, 2007 10:37 am

fair enough mate well im joining a week sunday so i'll find out soon enough.id rather be a penguin than a civi!

Sarastro · Post by **Sarastro** » Thu 15 Mar, 2007 6:39 pm

liam beasant wrote:fair enough mate well im joining a week sunday so i'll find out soon enough.id rather be a penguin than a civi!

Hear hear. For me, P-Coy is the bit where you prove yourself, not jumping out of planes, I've done that already (though granted, not with 5000 kilos of kit attached). Penguins still wear maroon

If you are a reg though, I would be pissed at the loss of Para pay. If they are going to do this, they should attach Para pay to having passed P-Coy, not getting your wings.

got1 · Post by **got1** » Thu 15 Mar, 2007 6:45 pm

Things HAVE changed since I was in"5000 kilo of kit attached " I don't think so.

SO19 · Post by **SO19** » Thu 15 Mar, 2007 6:58 pm

Hear hear. For me, P-Coy is the bit where you prove yourself, not jumping out of planes.

It was when it was a simple pass or fail.

Sarastro · Post by **Sarastro** » Thu 15 Mar, 2007 7:00 pm

It is still a simple pass or fail? Not all the events are pass/fail, but the course is as far as I know?

Things HAVE changed since I was in"5000 kilo of kit attached " I don't think so.

Yeah, I know, wishful thinking. More like, what, 8000?

SO19 · Post by **SO19** » Thu 15 Mar, 2007 7:45 pm

I meant refusing to jump Sarastro, not P-Coy.

Brownale · Post by **Brownale** » Thu 15 Mar, 2007 7:47 pm

Still is - if you refuse to jump, you get binned...off to the green jackets

SO19 · Post by **SO19** » Thu 15 Mar, 2007 7:53 pm

What I'm saying is, now that the jumps course will be conducted when you're already in Battalion, the pass/fail element is now kind of redundant. (for the time being)

sloth · Post by **sloth** » Thu 15 Mar, 2007 9:14 pm

what i cant understand is why the para reg bods cant get on the SF jumps course as SF have been going on theirs for years
share the wealth i say its the same course after all

Paraintraining · Post by **Paraintraining** » Fri 16 Mar, 2007 10:02 am

sorry to come across as ignorant... but don't sf get trained to do different jumps to the rest of us?

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