Extremely proud to say My son passed out yesterday in the parachute regiment.

Im Danish and I served in Afghanistan and Irak with both us and British and the brits are definitely the best

There was an old American saying from WW2 about British soldiers at the front.. " They eat bloody terrible food, always drink tea and insult their friends, but when the situation is bad and looks impossible they will stand up, load their gun, put their pack on, light a smoke, grin and say " come then you bast*"ds lets get this job done".

i served in the Welsh guards and im actually native American Choctaw nation i came to wales at 13 to live with my dad and years later went into the army i can tell you the uk armed forces are the best 😊

My father, gone but never forgotten, was extremely proud to be a Para. To be precise he was 9 Squadron, a paratrooping royal engineer.

The Israeli army says the British Paras (Paratroopers) are the best troops in the world, the US Armies 83rd Airborne Division couldn't pass P Company training, the recruit training for the Paras.

My driving instructor was an ex Para named Nigel.. He said my driving kept him awake at night 😂 I passed my test first time

I served a full career in the Parachute Regiment serving in 2 Para. During a LRRP course in Germany my 4 man patrol team included 2 Green Berets soldiers. They were absolutely useless. They lacked endurance and found it difficult to carry the heavy load over difficult terrain. During a long extraction one simply sat down on his backside and saying he could not go on….and he was the nominated patrol commander. It opened my eyes to the quality of US troops, although I have also worked with good US soldiers too.

My Dad was in the Paratroopers (2 Para), in the Falklands

What makes the grass grow - remember all those Poppies!

I watched our armed forces as a kid in the Falklands back in 82 . In particular the paras and marines.that was it for me by 89 i was in the forces myself . And now my son serves. I will never forget even as a boy the pride in my country them men gave me.

My dad was a para in ww2, then did 34 years in the royal artillery, im a very proud army brat x

I knew a Para and a Marine. The para told me that if you want a mission done with stealth and finesse you send the Marines. If you want the enemies knocked back 20 years then you send the paras. My buddy was a Pathfinder for the Para's. some of the stories he had would terrify you while you're in awe of what you're hearing

Check the Gurkha's - nepales soldiers who fight for the UK

My wife is a former Swedish Arctic training instructor, She describes the Brits as hard as nails (probably some Viking blood) and the Americans as..the P word and the C word, I remember one time she came from work she said "can we fly their mommys in to get them"

Worked at Aldi with an Ex Para a Scottish dude, When customers kicked off and he was on shift the matter was quickly resolved 😂

It costs a minimum of £40k to train 1 British It costs a minimum of £14k to train 1 USA soldier The only advantage the US has is numbers but in terms of skill British army is in a league of its own

We didn’t make an empire without the best forces. British determination at war is insurmountable, our SAS is what all other special forces attain to achieve. Proud to be the best, bar none.

I'll never forget reading a book about the battle of Arnhem between paras and SS troops. It got to a point where SS troops were refusing to go fight the Paras cos of how tough fighter and killers they were... the Paras were surrounded and out numbered, the SS even had armour while the Paras had none!

JT, if you look at the Falklands War, there were sadly young men of 17 who were killed in combat, members of the Parachute Regiment and Scots Guards from memory.

I had a cousin in the Royal Marines his description of the Paras was a Marine with his brains removed they would do anything they were mental.the training is brutal.

You can join at 16, the only European country to allow under 18s. You can join the army cadets at 12, which is like a military version of the scouts. The Paras are an airborne regiment of the British Army.

You can join at 17.5 years old. The Paras (Parachute Regiment) are the Airborne infantry unit of the British army and their aggression and tenacity is legendary

Bayonet training is multiple weeks of absolute abuse and torture. Imagine a school corridor, we were lined up in prone position, the cpls threw buckets of dirt on the ground and we were told to clean it up by crawling over it, while they sprayed us with the fires hoses. We were soaked, crawling in water and dirt and made to clean it up with our chests and crotches. That was 2 hours by example compared to multiple weeks of this sort of character building. By the time we even get to bayonet training our bodies are overworked under rested and in agony. But after this horrid day you start to get a grips with military life. It's make or break day for many men, many many many men

In college we go trained by the military and spent time on base with them, we received training from the Paras and saying it was hard is an understatement it was gopping.

Just to point out how relevant this is, the last time us brits used a successful bayonet charge was 2011 in Afghanistan by the 1st battalian, The Princess of Wales Royal Regiment (light infantry) Many nations call it obsolete but its small, light to carry and has a major effect on morale for both sides of the contact. When used effectively the bayonet ensures a level of aggression and unity that enables the user to instill an ungodly sense of fear into an enemy.

I spent just short of 20yrs in the Parachute regiment and (Para's), good to see us getting recognition. Cheers

JT please consider that these guys are the troops who get dropped behind enemy lines in hot warzones , they are expected to be able to stand against any foe before them with little to no support or resupply and to operate in hostile theatres and to survive. while many will state that special force units perform under the same conditions , which to be fair they do , the para`s are the guys who go and take and hold strategic objectives . huge thumbs up to anyone who chose the military as a career , it is not an easy option by any stretch

So shocking to see this kind of thing, but what’s much more disturbing and upsetting is knowing that it’s actually necessary 😢. Massive respect to these people and their service

Trouble is, after 14 years of Tory rule, the British. Army is smaller than the French Police Force, so to taking on anybody......................

If you can source it JT. I fully recommend a documentary called Our War, British soldiers in Afghanistan, using their actual body cam footage. It’s next level stuff and will take you on their journey.

The Para’s are legendary- winning the red beret is a massive achievement.

As a British army vet, I also had to make the grass grow, when I told my mum her face dropped. Never a para, but worked with 2 para in iraq, was fun, unfortunately lost 2 of them. Rip, cpt richard Holmes and cpl Lee ellis. The worst part, is I found the guy that blew us up on youtube, found the video of his tribute to taliban and aftermath of the vehicles. I even commented on the video.

Being parachuted in Behind Enemy Lines... From day-1, it is your job to be surrounded by the enemy without armour and thrive in that environment.

Check out an old show called Bad Lads Army, it's basically a group of British youths who are into the dodgier side of life and the army think they can "fix" them, worth a watch 😊

Awesome great set up love the content with both you and Anna

The Paras are an army regiment. You can join the British military at 16, but I believe they can't be sent to a warzone until they turn 18.

I do believe its a calling , as only the few can do it and do it well , the hardship they endure is very real . God bless each and every one of them .

You want to check out the Royal Marines and their 32 week training course with a 75-85% drop out rate !

That's why al Murray says we are the best

Check out the milling, it's something Para's do. It's like boxing but all offensive, no blocking punches.

Yer, you don't want to f**k with the British armed forces. I just want to add my respect and admiration for all the British armed forces and thank them for keeping me safe. Thank You for your service. 👍👍👍👍👍

This is the mentality needed for these badasses.. they’re the first on the frontline in future wars.

Thanks for this video

Matt latham often stopped by and helped when I did the poppy appeal in Peterborough

Yep, The Parachute Regiment that doesn’t parachute to save money and has no role under current UK defence strategy. Famous regiment well and truly buggered.

You can join at 16 but can't go on ops abroad until 18 (Ops, operation, theatre all meaning basically in war or post war places)

They also do parachute jumps with busted heels, run on compound fractures and all sorts of other crazy things to finish their training British Paras are supermen.

well. theres that story from Basra... big crowd kicking off......British army officer. " fix bayonets" ....crowd suddenly finds something else to be doing

My husband did 3 tours in the ghan and Iraq, one of which was with the paras. But one of the things he says prepares us so well is the types of terrain and mixed weather we have in the UK. They could train in one certain area and it will have river crossings, mountains, beaches, coastal hikes and all the weather that can go with it, high winds, heavy rains and sunshine could typically hit during one excercise and they have to be ready for all of them. Most of the training is let’s find some massive hills, get loads of weight on our backs and tab/run it as quick as possible. 😂

Brings back memories of basic training started with 54 lads and only 22 past out of training

There's a video on youtube which gives an animated look at the practical entry test for soldiers wanting to join the British SAS. It's mindbogglingly tough - and definitely worth watching.

you can sign up at 16 but go to the army collage for further education but also do your basic training in there too I wanted to go that way but had to wait and ended up just going into the normal way at 19 by the age of 20 I was in afghan spent my 21st and xmas there but would not change it for the world !! now I'm 32 and feeling a little bit old now but ill carry on until it makes sense to come out.

might not be many of us but we dont mess about

I did my basic Army training at the Guards Depot in the 60's. On completing your first 4 weeks training you had to do a 4 mile March (run) & Shoot including navigating a monstrous 36 obstacle assault course in full kit before firing 20 rounds into targets at 200 yds, which the whole Troop had to compete befor receiving 48 hr weekend pass! Apparently not long before we completed the Assault course a company of US Marines on exchange with a company of Guards failed!

You want to see what the Ghurkha's go through. Remember my Sargent telling me of an exercise in camouflage and they had to hide in the woods and a Captain turned up and was invited to walk through the woods to see if he could see any. At the end he congratulated the officer in charge as he had not seen any and the officer told him to look at his shoes and when he did he saw little white chalk marks all over them placed by the troops as he walked by.

We British are humble too the fact the enemy deserves respect,,,so we train more harder and more technical than the others. We are tough from council estates fighting from kids

Take a look at the training off the SAS and the SBS

We just need more people to join but the thing is it’s fu*** hard to get in

If you can find it, I recommend the show Dude You're screwed. Five survival experts and friends (RAF, US Army, Seals, survival historian) send each other to harsh environments with only 100 hours to find civilization. It's fascinating seeing the different styles and techniques that the different forces and backgrounds bring.

JT there is information on the Internet (I can't find the link) that in an exercise 100 Royal Marines were pitted against 1500 US Marines and the US forces were completely wiped out

Check out the Royal Marine Commandos Also SBS SAS

The British para's are a different breed of people. The stories I've heard from people who've been in the forces, whether they were in the army or RAF. They've all said the para's have a completely different mindset to other regiments. One in particular was from an old fella who I worked with, who was given the task to fly out to the US and bring back a squad of para's. They found the squad in a bar with US forces and someone from the US army started to take the piss out of the para's. What started as tongue and cheek banter turned very quickly into the whole bar turned upside down. A hardened officer had to then drag the squad out of the bar and onto the plane home.

This is standard training for all British infantry. The course is identical apart from p company

And the gurkha's too. They're the hardest people on the planet 💪

The Para's are essentially the Parachute Regiment of the British Army. They're the elite infantry unit, the best Para Troopers go on to serve in the SAS (Special Air Service). Which is one of the British Special Forces, arguably the most trained, elite in the world.

You can join the army at 16 but won't go on tour until 18

As an ex 1PARA with 16 years service I can categorically tell you with a straight face having worked with the US's best of the best for many years. These boys you see here are babies! Wait till you meet a seasoned vet like myself.. And I'm sure your delta's and your seals will agree with me when I say we are slightly ahead in skill and mindset. FYI you can join at 16 like myself.. 60% of SAS are paras.. Utrinque Paratus 🇬🇧🤝🇺🇸

The thing to remember is that this lad is ALREADY a soldier. He has passed his basic training. This is "P Company" where he is undergoing specialist Parachute regiment training. If he passes this he gets his red Beret. Then he has to complete his actual parachute course to get his wings.

My uncle was a Para and my cousin's bf is a Para, they are army, short for parachute soldiers (or para troopers - parachute troopers). Part of the entry requirement is bare knuckle fighting/boxing each other, it's brutal. Not sure which is worse between this training and the SAS training for different reasons....think i'd rather be chased down by dogs than punch my friend in the face though...

Thing is, in my experience the soldiers who have taken lives don't talk about it. My grandfather led a raid on an enemy machine gun position in Italy during WW2. Their gunners had taken out half of his platoon so in the dead of night he & two men kicked their door in, threw a grenade up the stairs and followed with their Tommy guns. As a kid, I read a scrap book from his army career & asked him about it & he said... "I never saw them, probably a lucky shot."

takes me back fond memories was 16 wen I singed up back in 1997 I wasn't in the Paras tho was in the Coldstream Guards

I'm a veteran who was in the Infantry, the Rifles. We had to tab out to a location, in full kit, weapon and a 40kg bergen, several miles from where the main camp at Catterick was. From there we did the entire exercise for several days and then at the end of the exercise we had to run back to camp again in full kit to get ready to do sword (Bayonet) training. We were all tired, all wet and all hot, then 1 by 1 we did the sword (Bayonet) lane and managed to finish that. Was one of if not the most difficult part of training but also the most exciting and looking back was quite enjoyable... And yh I have been to Afghan and met a lot of soldiers of different nationalities and a lot of them are good, but I feel our training is just better... Of course I am biased as it's where I did training and where I did my service but even the guys that didn't have the best training, they still stood out and would happily be beside them if shit hit the fan

Enjoyed your vid, as per, thanks 🙂 Darn it, gonna have to get off down the rabbit hole now, check difference between SAS & Paratroopers. Been watching odd episodes of Celebrity SAS (channel 4) recently, when sleep eludes me. You may enjoy JTReacts, tbh only know about half of the celebs but good viewing.. Lol Katie Price, "I need you to break me down"! 48hrs later - "here's your armband".

I was 17 at Depot Para, you can do service for the Queen wich won't count on your service count as long as you are 18 when you Pass out of training, The Parachute Regiment ( Paras ) are Airborne infantry and were formed in WW2 by Winston Churchill, firstly they were Army Commandos under Combined Operations, they had a motif that had an Anchor a Tommy gun and birds wings, No3 Commando became the Parachute Regiment.

This was 1 of the hardest days of my life but it prepared me mentally to deal with bits, it was 18 years ago, done plenty since and still going, but you cant forget your first bayonet training.

People also ask What is a PARA in the British Army? “THE PARAS” BRITAIN'S ELITE People also ask What is a PARA in the British Army? “THE PARAS” BRITAIN'S ELITE AIRBORNE INFANTRY The Parachute Regiment leads from the front as airborne Infantry. Of the four battalions, one is permanently at High Readiness for world wide intervention operations,

Paras are UK army elite airborne infantry. 1 Para is the special forces support group. US equivalents would be the Airborne Infantry Assault divisions.

beard is lookin' hench mate, nice work

My grandad was a Sargent for the Paras. Scary ass man until it came to kids he melted like snow. I miss him so much xxx

Paras are awesome, you should see their boxing and their vertigo inducing obstacle courses. The flip side is so many get knee injuries, they get pushed really hard.

There is also a documentary thing on the training of 16yr old soldiers- "squaddies at 16"

My uncle served in 4 para, faught in the Falklands. When the Argentines heard the paras were dropping in, a lot of them ran away in terror! Very tough blokes! With a rep to back it up, arguably a special force...

The training is hard and passing P company to earn the wings is legendary. Traditionally, a lot of Paras go onto SAS selection.

2 things for JT: 1: the paras are part of the parachute regiments 2: the age you can sign up is 15 or 16

Weve been fighting ourselves and others for over a thousand years I'd hope we'd be good at it by now

You can sign up when you leave secondary school in the UK, so at 16 years old. Army cadets is also popular here, so already at 12 years old your training can start. And the paras are part of the British Army. It is an elite regiment also and supplies many candidates to the SAS.

in the uk, you can join the army as a junior soldier at 15 years and 9 months (I thought it was 16 but I was told differently by an infantry recruiter earlier today)

JT take a look at the Royal Marine Commandos, as an ex marine reserve I’m biased.

They call it beasting for a reason !

The hardest, meanest British soldiers aren’t even British. The Gurkhas are levels above any other soldier. Period

i joined the 2nd para when i was 17 as well were basically special forces but not actually classed as special forces hardcore regiment best days my life

That video of recruits doing bayonet training is probably of the few videos that show how tiring it is but even this doesn’t really capture how utterly demanding it is. I probably did one of the easiest versions of this type of training and I remember being one of the top 3 worst experiences of my life and I have done some horrendous shit. It started with a wake up from the Cpl’s at 0330 in the morning using a fire hose and it finished in the evening with our room, kit and bodies in tatters in desperate need of clean up and rest

The Paras are Parachutists.. fighters. Part of the British Army, .I think the USA calls them Airborne troops.

As a brit we are the best trained in the world but we do love our brothers across the pond and they have helped us out number of times and we have with them lets agree that we are the unbreakable together brothers in arms 🇬🇧🇺🇲

I Remember Them In Crossmaglen , Years ago , they used To Hide Behind Pre Cast Double Concrete walls Dropped In The Middle of The Road They used to Hide Behind Them.

im former 2para, loved my time in there. training was extremely tough, but its that way for a reason. as for what level we were, its classed as elite infantry, so tier2 same level as normal seals and army rangers on the US side

I spent a lot of time with ww2 vets of the airborne forces and commandos and the 21st IPC and have known a lot of paras over the years and they are all amazing but verd hard word and mentally tough people.

The Para's (parachute regiment) AKA the red berets, are a regiment of the British army and are very similar to the Royal Marines.

Find some videos on the Royal marine training, it's harder and longer than the Paras and I believe it's the longest basic Infantry training course in the world