The Paras: Men of War | The Final Test: A 1,000ft Solo Parachute Jump

The Paras: Men of War | The Final Test: A 1,000ft Solo Parachute Jump | ITV

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While Kojo passes the Paras training course winning the prize for best endeavour, he faces one final hurdle before becoming a fully-fledged paratrooper - his first parachute jump from a Hercules plane. Catch up now on the ITV Hub: bit.ly/2HzN1Ei
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@pauljermyn5909 10 ай бұрын

That one step changed that man forever.

@andrewcombe8907 Жыл бұрын

It wasn’t the first jump that scared me. It was the second and the third etc as I knew what was coming.

@deckz825 Жыл бұрын

what was it like?

@Account64000 Жыл бұрын

What is combat like and is it worth it compared to other roles

@edition1805 Жыл бұрын

And ..Ready for anything

@sj-ll6wc Жыл бұрын

@Isaac’s main it's shit and fear and relief you pulled through..simple

@sj-ll6wc Жыл бұрын

Thafs a static line jump...25 grand free fall in full kit on oxygen at night..then hit the ground and be combat effective..that's the training..jumping out of plane is just a way of getting from A to B quickly..once on the ground your a boots on the ground combat soldier..fucking parachute is literally 1% of what you do

@stevey4782 Жыл бұрын

Balloon jump at Weston on the Green 1976. Followed by aircraft jump. First time I’d ever flown. Happy days,great bunch of friends.

@garrywynne1218 11 ай бұрын

Ooh the drop when your breakfast hits your throat . 200ft before deploy at 800 feet .

@paralogregt 10 ай бұрын

Same as me in 76, what month where you there. I think i was there in September.

@jonathanpipe8249 10 ай бұрын

Balloon jumps ! Oh they were fun !

@garrywynne1218 10 ай бұрын

@@jonathanpipe8249 - the pints at the Spotlight 🤣

@nicolasetherton2534 7 ай бұрын

Yes

@johnhopkins6260 10 ай бұрын

Hoo-ah for him!! The world could really use more of him👍👍

@robloxiscancer3343 Ай бұрын

wtf is hoo-ah

@nathandutton5338 26 күн бұрын

@@robloxiscancer3343 US army chant basically, I think this person is mistaken with the country and type of unit.

@robloxiscancer3343 23 күн бұрын

@@nathandutton5338 it’s hoo rah

@grannygivingitlarge2398 11 ай бұрын

my son has a year at harrogate then off to paras very proud mum

@richiebennett161 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for your Service

@bigdaveo397 11 ай бұрын

Good lad. It surprising how quickly they hit into the ground. That's no gentle landing.

@digdougedy 10 ай бұрын

They are all good lads... However, he should have been pulling on his risers to side slip the chute to create a bit of lateral movement. Landing straight down prevents the paratrooper from performing a decent PLF and can lead to injury...

@princeamponsah7464 11 ай бұрын

Proud of you kojo. Hoping to join soon 🇬🇭

@traceynorcross5666 Жыл бұрын

The second worst thing about an aircraft jump is when is when your hooked up and waiting for the green light, if for some reason, the pilot over shoots the DZ you could be standing for another 10 minutes and there’s always someone puking his guts up, you can’t wait to get out of that door as your main chute, reserve, container and gat become weightless then comes the first worst thing, the landing, especially at night.

@_unfiltered Жыл бұрын

How does jumping at night work do you have night vision goggles on or something?

@traceynorcross5666 Жыл бұрын

@@_unfilteredno goggles just the MK 1 eyeball your vision is ok until the final 100 feet then everything goes black just concentrate on keeping your feet together and try to gauge when your container hits the ground sometimes you can hear or feel it

@garrywynne1218 11 ай бұрын

@@traceynorcross5666- waiting for the thud of the Bergen dangling and swinging was a sure sign you are creaming in 🤣

@Indoor_Carrot 20 күн бұрын

Hope he makes the most of it. The vast majority of applicants are, like myself, rejected from ever serving for medical reasons they can't ever change or fix. I was rejected for a condition I was born with. I'll never be given a chance to achieve anything like this. I like to remind servicemen how they should appreciate how lucky they are to have the experiences that most are unfairly denied.

@andrewbrown2907 11 ай бұрын

Well done 👍

@big.cheese.007 2 күн бұрын

Respect ❤

@samurai3206 10 ай бұрын

You are no longer "a hat"! Something to be proud of, from a former hat! lol

@ancientmachine9070 9 ай бұрын

Becoming Airborne qual'd still makes an rlc driver an rlc driver

@royjennison3916 10 ай бұрын

well done a great result

@andresmit9384 10 ай бұрын

Anyone, including your grandmother can jump out of an aircraft. Very few can do the Paratrooping after!

@boots2926 10 ай бұрын

Fair play mate.

@lowfatmofat2152 11 ай бұрын

It was my first time in an aeroplane on my first jump, id never flew before.

@markaluge 10 ай бұрын

There were 2 guys on my jumps course who had never flown before. Their claim to fame was 8 take offs in an aircraft but never landed in one.

@lowfatmofat2152 9 ай бұрын

@@markaluge brill

@lowfatmofat2152 9 ай бұрын

@@markaluge I got my American jump wings California 1989 jumped out a C141 star lifter 5 times with full kit, the Americans couldn't believe we had so much kit strapped to us. Amazing days, great memories.

@dboogeman2002 11 ай бұрын

I miss the rough and rocky C130 jumps. We eventually went completely to C17.

@ericstephenson145 11 ай бұрын

C-130, C-141, Caribou, Huey, Blackhawk. Miss it all

@apmarsden 11 ай бұрын

Jeez, they have it easy now. 1st Jump was clean fatigue from the balloon at RAF Hullavington, (try it kids - the front somersault is absolutely the best exit to try once you have done a few jumps). Second was sim 4's clean fatigue at RAF Weston on the Green working up to the 8th which was sim 8's at night with a (fake) container at RAF Weston on the Green. The scariest jump was the 9th when you went up in the balloon with three veterans back at your unit... and you were number one!

@speedyneon 10 ай бұрын

That landing was a little rough. No PLF . Landed like a sack of potatoes.

@chrischristofis8501 10 ай бұрын

Yep Ballon jump was the worst, you have confidence in the shute for the plane jump

@matthewcoombs3282 11 ай бұрын

03:03 like the proverbal sack of shite.....Well done lads. I would have the stones to do P Company. Pass or Fail I admire those who put themselves through it.

@matthewcoombs3282 11 ай бұрын

Would "not" have the stones.... I mean!

@Calebmikesell Жыл бұрын

This is the most dramatic airborne video I’ve seen

@freeman8128 10 ай бұрын

Men of courage. Well done Kojo - BTW, lots of White guys jumped too.

@1Flyingfist 10 ай бұрын

Yeah, but that's "normal". Watch any extreme sports channel. 😏 I would have considered joining the armed forces when I watched 9/11 unfold on TV, but I came to my senses after a few minutes. Luckily 🙏🏽

@michaelkerr4953 2 ай бұрын

That landing wasnt great but you got up from it

@adriankunz3395 Жыл бұрын

is the test to see if you don't hesitate to jump out the aircraft?

@bigdaveo397 11 ай бұрын

The test is to complete a parachute jump. If you don't, You fail.

@mryrius 10 ай бұрын

I remember there’s two tries at least from historical perspective of the original airborne units deployed for WW2, they can’t force you to jump though.

@mostlynobody517 8 ай бұрын

11b, stay on the ground, stick to the mission.

@bushwhackeddos.2703 10 ай бұрын

Do they train to stop dinghies,

@sgtmajvimy 10 ай бұрын

well done :) he is right, it is rather unnatural. well done :)

@larrytait9836 11 ай бұрын

Did the narrator say a year of training?

@digdougedy 10 ай бұрын

Yes. He was only 18, so he most likely did young recruit foundation training in Hrrowgate, followed by Pre Para and then full para infantry training, followed by P Company, followed by parachute training at Brize Norton...

@simonloo2168 2 ай бұрын

Night jump is toughest

@barry3045 10 ай бұрын

Did BRICK TOP narrate this ?

@jep1103 10 ай бұрын

Great skill set to have and we should continue with it, but will it ever get used again

@archstanton6310 4 ай бұрын

Who esle aquired their apex tie.

@dboogeman2002 11 ай бұрын

Got to work on your PLF bro.

@digdougedy 10 ай бұрын

Absolutely... However, what he should have been doing is hanging on his risers to side slip the chute to give him some lateral speed. Was he not trained to do this?... More likely he was stressed out by the impending landing and forgot. A bit worrying seeings as they do allot of drill work hanging in a harness in a hanger before jumping. It was his first jump. Hopefully he will get a bollocking for risking injury by doing a straight down landing...

@dboogeman2002 10 ай бұрын

@@digdougedy I was under the impression that the training he received maybe differed than that of our training in the US. I was friends with airborne soldiers from other countries while deployed to Iraq as part of the UN forces but we rarely talked about certain training techniques.

@digdougedy 10 ай бұрын

@@dboogeman2002 Having served in 2 REP , French Foreign Legion from 1989, I can say that the training for jumping is, and has to be, very similar to all airborne regiments around the world. However, when it comes to the process of getting into an airborne regiment, the British Para has to do a very much harder selection that I did in Corsica. The French do things differently to the British. Not that it isn't hard, but there id no "P Company" in the Legion.

@aldebaran9255 10 ай бұрын

Stop complaining about BLM, and oppression and being a minority. Stand tall on your OWN two feet and do what this teenager has done for HIS country.

@PhillRobinson 10 ай бұрын

Paras did that on D-Day and then ran into gunfire.

@newton18311 10 ай бұрын

So did the Germans on Create.

@patriotunion7211 10 ай бұрын

😊note the person of colour gets the starring role!

@elmersglue8723 7 ай бұрын

A sorry state for the military indeed

@Hoppy91 6 ай бұрын

Note to yourself if you have watched the full three episodes. It focuses on white para troppers, too, and the last episode it focuses on three qualified white paratroopers along with Kojo as he got backtropped from his squad. Allowed the people who watched it that kojo pasted the course

@archstanton6310 4 ай бұрын

Troppers , and backtropped , are you a bootneck.

@Bigboy664u Ай бұрын

PatriotWalt at least kojo had the stones to do it.

@aebirkbeck2693 6 ай бұрын

a thousand feet is ok we used to jump eight hundred feet and possibly six hundred feet the strange thing the higher you are the safer you are as you have more time to react to anything. I have never been to brize norton as I did my jumps at abingdon out of the ballon, andover, argosy and then buffalo the c130. Keep up the good work mucker you have done it good man woa ho mahomet

@gustavbrinkel5489 10 ай бұрын

It looks reelly easy fam.

@thomasmusso1147 11 ай бұрын

Kak landing .. potato sack 😁.

@jamesleon5985 10 ай бұрын

Hahaha dude .. this is easy for an airborne warrior .. screw the nut .. 😂😂😂

@peterfield2229 10 ай бұрын

Why focus on the black guy FFS

@Hoppy91 7 ай бұрын

If you watched the full series, it focuses on lots of white para tropper men. Kojo got backtropped from his squadron, hence why the camera crew went back to let the audience know he passed the course

@vertigoxy69 Ай бұрын

Why does it matter?

@scottbehr5690 11 ай бұрын

Damn...a whole year of training just to make a static line jump. I would like to see the entire process. I went to jump school in '78 it s three weeks long. ground week, tower week, and jump week...5 jumps.

@garrywynne1218 11 ай бұрын

In the U.K. you earn your place to get to airborne school . It’s not an elective on signing a contract. Only those who have completed an” arduous selection process” are allowed to train. No criticism. Just a different system 🤷🏻

@scottbehr5690 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info!@@garrywynne1218

@jackaubrey8614 10 ай бұрын

You have to pass "P" Company before you can earn the right to jump school. Back in the eighties when I did it we had 3 balloon jumps from 800 feet then 4 C130 jumps (again from 800 feet). Your "tower week" sounds like fun....