Qualifications/Skills you gain in the Para's?

[Arran]

Hey guys i was wondering what sort of qualifications and skills you pick up in the paras. Oviously skills wise i know you learn weapon handling and survival skills etc, , I have heard you can get NVQ's and similar stuff while in there, but if you could tell me some of the stuff you can pick up i would really like to know thanks...

[Doc]

NVQ 88734.3 "filling in Hats" basic and advanced.

[Alfa]

You definitely do an NVQ whilst going through Basic Training but I can't actually remember what it is in.

You also get a grant every year whilst in the Army to use to put towards any educational courses you may wish to do.


Not the most informative post I know, but every little helps or so Tesco keep telling us

[Arran]

haha i love tesco, well their sandwhiches mainly but thats another story. Yeh i heard a similar thing alfa i was just trying to get more information out of people on here. dont spose u know what courses u can do with your grant? Is it pretty much like college type stuff?

[harry hackedoff]

Fiji Bob, ex two Para, held the SAS record for head butting 37 remfs in under a minute.
Para 01 just failed Level Two in How To Tell What`s Ally Or Not, but he asked me not to mention that

[Tab]

It helps to get a job on a security firm

[Alfa]

dont spose u know what courses u can do with your grant? Is it pretty much like college type stuff?

I think you can use it for anything so long as you can prove it's a legitimate course. So for example if you wanted to do a foreign language course you could use your grant to put towards the cost of the course.

To be honest I wasn't paying much attention when we got the talk on it all I was too tired to listen at the time which is probably why I can only remember the basics!