Posted: Tue 27 Nov, 2007 4:01 pm
Cheers for that, i've sent a pm to him
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Hello HMK, I'd also be interested to know what the current pre-para course is like simply becasue I haven't kept in touch with anyone form my days at Hullavington. When I did my pre-para course in early 82 it was a very informal affair with the adjutant saying things like "right today you'll go on a 6 mile run" on a regualr basis or dry jumping from the balloon. Happy days!HMK wrote:This is the Squadron I would like to join if I pass my PGAC and obviously my TG course. However i'm sure I will be asked about it if I say this in my interview. I have searched high and low but I can't find out any information on the Pre Parachute course you must complete before joining. I'm pretty sure it's not like the one the Para's have to do, but could be wrong.
Any information would be most appreciated
Yes, actually. As soon as I left the Regt I applied for the Metropolitan Police & while I was waiting for a place at Hendon Training College I spent a year doing various security jobs. The most interesting of which was protecting the Iranians, who having, a couple of years earlier, been bombed out of their Embassy by some chaps from Hereford set up shop in a building in Tothill Street right next door to New Scotland Yard, I mean literally there was a gap between the two buildings,a small side street of only about 15 feet wide.Now the bottom four floors of this building housed various Iranian oil companies but above that were located the Iranian army, navy and air force authorities. Our job was to search and check under vehicles entering the car park and to check people coming in and do random searches. And more than once I remember stopping their military instructors coming in with cut-away models of M16s and the like. This building could be monitored from NSY very easily and although I don't know it for a fact, I'd put money on that the Home Office picked this location specifically for the Iranians so they could keep a very very close eye on them. The other guys working with me on this job were all also ex-military or ex-police.HMK wrote:You found any luck or forunes then London Boy?
Oh yes, you bet it was. I left school at the end of the 5th year- with very few qualifications - then went into the RAF when I was 18, having already passed the entrance exam for the Met police. Butr when I then went back for an interview my RAF service was a huge positive factor.HMK wrote: Was it easier to get jobs like the police and security becasue of your background in the RAF?
Cheers Harry. I live in a small town a couple of hours norhteast of Gothenburg.harry hackedoff wrote:Welcome aboard London Boy Whereabouts are you in Sweden?