Recomend this to anyone thinking of para training. It shows life as a fresh recruit and follows them in there training from P Company, Basic Wales to there first jumps.
Of the 41 that started only 16 passed. The 10 mile tab clamied alot of victims and hot weather gave most of them exhaustion which didnt help as well as the sheer pace that they were going.
Infact they ran 2 P companys that year as they did not have enough recruits for the team events.There was 1 lad there who missed the first ballon jump through injury but did the plane jump after (his first 1). When he came back to do the ballon jump, he just could not do it and as a result failed even though he had previously jumped out of a moving plane.
Hard to understand, but shows the pressure of the whole thing.It also shows briefly how the recruits are doing after passing out and into there battalions which most of them went to 2 and 3 para as they had taken losses in the falklands. Must of been hard for them to go straight into battalions who have just come back from a war.
I doubt training has changed that much from 1982? so this is a good insight to earn that red beret.
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