This is the rigorous selection process and training required to join the British Parachute Regiment (Paras). From fitness requirements to the mental and physical challenges faced by recruits, this video provides a unique insight into one of the most elite military units in the world. Discover what it takes to earn the coveted maroon beret!
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1:19 there is no way they are screening out sociopaths dude. they make the best killers.
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That "basic" medical test image where the blood pressure cuff is placed over that clothing would certainly not measure pressure properly…
The paras do a lot of walking or TAB ing (tactical advance to battle) because they are often the first to be dropped into enemy territory then they have to advancd to the battle zone. Carrying all their kit and rations. They are rock hard.
Most us brits couldn't either bro. They're special these guys.
Hey JJ, that was your funniest video ever. JJ = no way, I couldn't do that, I wouldn't be able for that, I'm not doing that. 😂😂 OK Private Pyle. Let's see how good you are with a gun.😅.
I would fail on so many levels, being scared of heights would be one of them.
This was really interesting, thanks for sharing. Hope you're well 😀
RIGHT .! SO why are you Selling Guns to Nut jobs in Walmart.?
20miles is doable for healthy people. 4 hours is not. But I walked a summer walk of 26 miles in 8 hrs every year. I miss it having become disabled in my 50s.
My brother was a para he served in northern Ireland, bosnia and Iraq. He would do the london marathon for charity combat stress right up to he's late 40s with full kit on his back .
I'd put my neck out drinking water too hard. 😅
I'm not sure if they are the same battalion but in the past few years, some of the trainees actually died during the training.
Major John Frost was the CO of 2nd Parachute Battalion, 1st Airborne Division at the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944. It was his unit that went "A Bridge Too Far" and fought to take and defend the Arnhem Bridge
3-4 miles? What are ya? Some kinda… walking wimp? Walk my dog at least twice that a day 💪🏻
(I shall accept your adulation and praise now 😉)
I may have too much time on my hands…
Well in peacetime they prefer mon Whites, that actually had policies not to recruit White men. But with warscthat they are picking with Russia etc, suddenly they are happy to recruit White men to go and kill other White men!
Hi JJ, that poet is a different John Frost, if you've ever seen the film "A Bridge Too Far", directed by Richard Attenborough, they thought "who can we get to play John Frost?……I know, lets get Hannibal Lecter".😉
Wait until you see the special forces SAS training and if you do then you've got to see how they took back the Iranian Embassy in London from terrorist back in the early 80's called Operation Nimrod.
I'm a huge lover of all things military so I'm excited for this. lots of love and God bless x
aw 😂Bless, that 7 months para training would not be fun….!
Milling is a common English word. It describes what humans do at a shopping mall or young people milling around the bus stop.
I used to stay at Catterick Barracks, my girlfriend's Dad was a Major there. We had our own driver in a black sedan, she was a very cute blonde but you wouldn't mess. We needed a driver as there is F*CK all to see or go around nearby. I did most of my training in South Wales, where there even less F*CK all but colder.
Love how that guy had Jones on his uniform, brings a whole new meaning to "Keeping up with the Jones's" 😂😂😂😂
My uncle was a para. He broke his leg during a night training drop, and stayed with us whilst his leg healed. As I was a young kid and it was summer, he would place me on the crossbar of a bike and we rode around the neighborhood, and visited the parks. He made me laugh. It was a great summer.
You must be a wimp !! My 10 and 8 year old grandkids walk more than 5 miles every day when we go to the Lake District !!
You can tell you are an American because you shun the idea of walking !! I'm 68 and go walking/hiking for fun, health and fitness !!
They're good no doubt, but the Royal Marine Commandos are better. Sit back and wait for ex-Para's to go mental. My work here is done.
The thing that makes these things though isnt necessarily the distance and time. Its the ground. Its up and down hills. Through water all while being depleted and alot carrying injuries from the training before. And by the end having seen their name on own t shirt for weeks. Many can now spell own name. 😂
I guess that they do all the marching and infantry training because about the last thing that they are likely to do is parachute into action. There has only been one occasion since the Second World War that they have done so and that was at Suez 68 years ago.
No they mean without parachutes
In the movie The longest day ( great ww2 film) Richard Todd played his boss John Howard 7th battalion Parachute reg. And Todd was actually there. He helped Major Howard hold pegasus bridge D-day June 6th 1944. Plus Todd is one of my favourite actors.
Watch some history of the Falklands War to find out about why the Paras have to be ready to tab long distances
Milling is short for windmilling….a fughting style of just swinging both arms ferouciosly looking like a windmill in the process
In the 80s when I joined the British Army….2 and 3 Para where on Queens Parade in Aldershot. Young men would go into training there and come out killing machines.
How many people in the SAS special forces are from the Paras
How many people in the SAS special forces are from the Paras
Sometimes they get dropped in and they are put behind enemy lines and they need to fight backwards to destroy the front line of the enemy.
Sometimes they are dropped in a place closest to the enemy, but have to march and go as far as they can on foot and that’s why a lot of these tests look at what they had to do in World War II and since particularly in the Falklands
You might want to check out Bloody Sunday, in Derry, N Ireland. That was the the Paratroopers. I was born a little later but I remember them patrolling the streets here in the late 80s, early '90s too. They opened fire on unarmed civil rights protestors, multiple of whom were children. So far, the British govt under numerous PMs since the '90s have admitted it was unjustifiable and officially apologised to the people here, yet only one soldier faces murder charges (multiple ofc) at the time of writing. The scapegoat, as it were.
The first part is just the tests to get into the British army, it used to be slightly harder but they made it gender neutral and lowered the standards. No the paras isn't an extra thing and you can join straight from civilian life, our special forces on the other hand are only available to those currently serving or to reserve special forces(21 and 23 sas ) personnel.
They usually get dropped behind enemy lines.
Just wait until he sees the Royal Marine training 😂😂