Shafting the Paras

[Hostage_Negotiator]

Much as I hate to intercede between you and Reg What are you basing this on GR? It's very easy to be vague perhaps you should now present some viable argument as to date all you've done is bluster!

PS I'm not RAF Regt however I've spent some considerable time on ops both with them and Para Regt!

[Sandy The Guvnor]

UTTER BOLLOX

Is that the extent of your argument, or do you have any facts to back that up?!

Well considering i am the senior Para Reg PTI @ the depot i think i am more knowlegable on this subject than you

[Greenronnie]

If you have worked with 2 Sqn then you will see that they try to imitate Para Reg in the way they dress and go about their business. And anything the RAF do is easier than how the Army does things. Take the RAF fitness test for example, if I was in the RAF then I would have to do 10 press ups, 25 sit ups and get 8.3 on the bleep test to pass! I could do that and more at the end of a good night on the piss!

[RAF Reginald]

If you have worked with 2 Sqn then you will see that they try to imitate Para Reg in the way they dress and go about their business.

Funny old thing that, given that's their job! What do you mean they immitate them in the way they dress and act, do you mean wearing para smocks and jumping out of planes? What else should they do!! As for the "everything in the RAF is easier than the Army", very true, however we are talking about the RAF Regiment. Yes, we have to complete the joke of a fitness test, but that is in addition to our own tests. We have recently moved from the CI CFT and BFT to the ROFA (Regiment Operational Fitness Assessment), all our other training is more closely related to the Army than the RAF. I've served closely with many Army units and bootys for the last 10 years, have you served with the RAF Regt?

[Doc]

Now now ladies play nice

[Greenronnie]

Yes I have, gave me a few laughs. Hopefully won't have to go there again.

[Greenronnie]

By the way, is that new fitness test an egg and spoon race in NBC kit? Anyway, enough of the RAF Reg, this is supposed to be a discussion on Para Reg, on the Para Reg forum! If you don't want to recieve a slagging, get yourself over to the RAF pages.

[Doc]

By the way, is that new fitness test an egg and spoon race in NBC kit?

, new keyboard now fella, mines covered in coffee and snot!

[RAF Reginald]

Steady on GR!

I don't know all about what you guys do, hence i've at no point slagged you. As you obviously don't know everything about the RAF Regt then maybe you could return the favour!!

[Paratrooper01]

I was at Brize with a couple of blokes from the RAF Regt, and they all said to me that their job was sh*t and they get tasked with the square route of f*ck all...and thats gen, from the horses mouth.

As for imitating para regt....oh my god! You should have seen some of the overhangs on those RAF boys berets

[Sticky Blue]

There is proof!

and thats gen, from the horses mouth.

The RAF have parachuting talking horses... what do the paras have that come anywhere close to that?

Hats off to the junior service and their talking parachuting horses. Hip Hip

[Sticky Blue]

Royal Navy = Chips and gravy
Para Regt = Meat and Veg
Royal Marines = chips and beans
RAF = Talking parachuting horses (can you make mine a medium rare please?)

[Paratrooper01]

Very funny...you know what i meant!

[Greenronnie]

Now, I've never claimed to have known everything about the RAF Reg, I'm really not that interested, but I have spent a lot of time at RAF Bases and also worked with them. I just can't see why they think they're something special when they're quite obviously not. I have seen these blokes wearing Goretex when it's not raining, sunglasses on stag (and remember that's all they really exist for) and generally not really cutting the mustard.

[harry hackedoff]

I like you Ronnie, you`re nice
Old Reggie babe didn`t bite last time, so here we go again....
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Beret of Blue, worn by many earned by a few?
And your point is?
Who can remember that post a few months back where Royal overhears a crab chat-up line that went summat like....
"You`ve heared of the Royal Marines right? Well they are the Navy`s Commandos. The RAF Regt are the Air Force Commandos, geddit?"
It`s all effin true oi tell ee phnaawwwrrr

All together now,
be kind to our web-footed friends, cos a duck may be somebody`s mother, who lives all alone in a swamp, where it`s always cold and damp
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Some of my best friends are Para Reg One Airborne Warrior it`s been an absolute pleasure to know is young Mick Betheridge. Mick is a balls-out eighteen year old adrenalin junkie , the veteren of jumps too numerous to count. He was a virgin abseiler as I took him over the edge of a ninety foot drop last year. Now he loves it and he had his grand-daughter with him three weeks ago when we repeated the exercise. Mick is karate black belt and has just passed his third Dan this week. He`s seventy-two
Now that is the way to get old