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this is for serving or ex paras. what are your views towards the raf regiments 2 squadran (airbourne squadran)? can they be classed as "paras" once they pass p-company and get into the number 2 sqdrn? and do paras accept them?? just a few general questions really as i am hoping to join the RAF regiment and eventually be in the number 2 sqrn. any views will be helpful, thanks.

As far as i know II Sqn RAF Regiment are an Airborne force but they dont undertake P-Coy, they do the "Pre-Para" course which according to my mate is along the same lines.

Rockapes are not paras
Parachute trained yes but they have limited tasks, capture (supposedly) and defence of airfield's. In that area they are the experts but so what.

I was in 1 Para, my little bro was a Rockape (haha) and even he said 2 Squadron arn't exactly Airborne, just think they are.....

Being Airborne in the Para sense isn't about having your wings, it's about a state of mind, a way of life...read 'Green eyed Boy's' and you'll get some idea what it's all about.

podder wrote:what are your views towards the raf regiments 2 squadran (airbourne squadran)? can they be classed as "paras" once they pass p-company and get into the number 2 sqdrn? and do paras accept them?? just a few general questions really as i am hoping to join the RAF regiment and eventually be in the number 2 sqrn. any views will be helpful, thanks.

Isn't it "3 Parachute Squadron, RAF Regt"?

If they attempted and passed P Coy then they could consider themselves Paras or Airborne. They don't. And they're certainly no elite, however you look at it. Military parachutists. Not Paratroopers. There's a huge difference - anyone can parachute.

They aren't even fully trained in the Infantry role so aren't as versatile as line infantry of the British Army. They specialise in airfield capture and security - yet in Kosovo it was British Paras who were deployed to seize an airport.

Just my opinion. I met some (professionally) and mistook them for older Air Cadets. How embarrassing!

mate i think pre para is still very hard and to pass 2sqns pre para you still have to be considered pretty elite. maybe its not as hard as p coy but still if you think its that easy you should try it then see.

Having read some of 4 of 10's posts i'm inclined to agree with him on some points ( in particular some of the bone questions people expect answered about training before they even get there!- Turn up and do it -or don't the choice is yours!) but that last post was utter bollocks! For somebody who obviously has time in you just sounded like a bigoted used-2-b!
II Sqn's pre-course is one of the hardest pre para courses on the planet and you gobbing off about how they're not real "airborne" makes you sound like Jobag!
Have some respect!

Hostage_Negotiator wrote:II Sqn's pre-course is one of the hardest pre para courses on the planet and you gobbing off about how they're not real "airborne" makes you sound like Jobag!
Have some respect!

I only speak of my personal experience when I genuinely mistook two RAF Regt guys as cadets. They hadn't Wings on their shoulder so surely weren't 2 Sqn. I didn't mean to imply that I mistook 2 Sqn blokes as cadets or thought that they were no better than cadets. I was writing about RAF Regt when I wrote about cadets. I won't apologise for that.

So what does their Pre Course involve?

What and who are you? Have you ever done an op or exercise with 2 sqn? Probably not, because you sound like an ex blanket stacker or maybe bottle washer, especially with the most homosexual website I have ever seen. 2 sqn guys are good soldiers, and thats coming from ex para reg, and pre para is a hard course. It very similar to p-coy. They get their wings, good - they earn them. Unlike these arseholes in the RAF TSW/TCW or whatever the fcuk they are. I'll be joining some of my 2 sqn buddies down the shot on airborne forces day if you fancy coming along for shits and giggles. NO? thought not.

What the fark is that website suppossed to be about? Crying with laughter here!

Sad as fook!

Is this you 4of10??

Just had a look Care to explain what website is about haha?


Preserver Life Parachutist - essential kit during FIBUA!
Desert Cam Trousers - the height of fashion in the temperate environment!
Silenced "Hockler" - show you care for your patients by not making unnecessary noise! Suitable for use in libraries, too.
Drop Leg Holster - *VITAL* for the last Browning in the armoury that got issued to some fat-arsed, flat-footed desk-wallah on paper-shuffling duty who was in the queue ahead of you.
Drop Leg Mag Pouches - don't flaff around during those emergencies - keep your Mars Bars and *Kingsize* Mars Bars ready for immediate hunger deployment!
Elvis Sunglasses - COOL! A SF Soldier *MUST HAVE*!
Chunky Swatch Watch - express your individualism and wear it on the opposite wrist!
Ladies' Gloves - use you're *left* hand and pretend that someone else is doing that for you... J

Isn't that Mr Motivator??

The only thing he could motivate me to do, is put 2 in the chest and 2 in the head!

could this be the elusive never before photographed King Walt himself!

Looks like that kid from Different Strokes has fallen into an Army Surplus tent, had a fit and walked out into sunshine not knowing his arse from his elbow.

4of10 you need to take yourself outside and introduce your forehead to a brick wall until the world suddenly goes all dark and fuzzy!

(even if that isnt you then your a Gimp for having a gay website like MRB said!)

looks like that little bloke from buck rogers

how did you get a silenced mp5 in the 1983 battle of grenada re-inactment society

1-2-3-4 united state marine corp hoo-ah!

it is a joke though innit 4 of 10?