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 .
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.
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
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.
I met John Howard in the 80’s when on a school trip to France. We visited the Pegasus cafe on the anniversary of D Day. He was there with other men who fought alongside him. I still have a postcard with their signatures on it, which they did for all us school children. Also, my uncle (who passed away last year ) was an extra in the Longest Day
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.
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.
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
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.😅.
Hi buddy, I am a veteran of the RAF Regiment No2 Squadron, which is the airborne sqn, we do the exact same course as the Parachute Regiment, I did it at 18 and it practically killed me, but milling, the term comes from the way most recruits basically windmilling their arms about at each other, cause it's a new thing to go up and fight someone for most recruits.
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".😉
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.
The difference is when we the Paras arrive at the DZ we pick up our kit of webbing and bergans and TAB to the next location, the us airborne picked up there kit and threw it in the back of a 4 tonner and then climbed in laughing at us as they drove past. like to see them when theres no transport available.
My dad was a Para. He went through P Company the week after (then) Prince Charles completed the coarse. I used to love jumping off the practice tower as a kid, but, couldn't get on with guns (clay pigeon shoots) so I didn't follow him in.
There was a documentary on this a while back that shows you some troops going through the entire P Company Course. One of the things that's not immediately clear until you are deep in the process is that these tests are day after day with little rest in between. Fatigue from each day compounds making the next day that much harder. The log race is supposedly one of the hardest because the weight difference across the shoulders and due to differences in peoples height, it can mess with the balance of the pole. Edit if it's allowed, this is the Documentary, you may find it interesting: th-cam.com/video/Pl0cKJiXut0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=dYHFGQYBajnDoQWM In fact it does appear these guys from this video are based on it.
This is how the British army could yomp or tab across the width of the Falkland island, carrying all their own kit and fight a battle at the other end. And win.
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. 😂
The telegraph pole carry test is 4 people in 2 groups. So double your weight number given until your switch out to the other cohort of your team for the next stint. It is not fun. Think of the bright side...once you get to an Air Assault Battalion you get to do this every week! The sales of maxi-pad female products go up the day before in the UK as they're great for taking the impact of the log on your shoulder. Milling is just going mental for 60 seconds punching the opponent as much as possible to test controlled aggression. One person will be skins (hence no top) and the other will be shirts. It's just battering the crap out of each other and seeing if you stop under command after time and never turn your back.
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.
P company is designed so that jo matter how fit you are, you will struggle. There will be pain and you will have to fight through it. Its about mental strength ad much as physical fitness.
I did the Parachute training course, a few days before we did the twenty mile march, an American, from the 82nd Airborne Division, joined us. He was over here doing a Parachute Regiment course, So, i'm told we are doing a 20 mile march in a couple of days, he said. That's right, came the reply. How often do you stop he asked. He was told once. Ok, halfway he said. No after 20 miles someone else said. But we are expected to march 20 miles and be ready to get into action, he replied. So are we, another bloke said, He went all white, all the colour drained from his face. He was a good man.
I like the part where you conflated Major John Frost with the American poet John Frost. If only he had had Edward Thomas's' back, with his paratrooper skills, at the Battle of Arras in 1917..."two roads diverged in a yellow wood...and I ran both of them in under four minutes with full pack...and that made all the difference..."
The parachute regiment trained on the same camp as us in 2008 at catterick, Basic training wasnt much different compared to normal infantry, Specialised training is where it gets tasty after passing out, I personally had bad interactions with the parachute regiment, The recruits and the staff had a chip on there shoulder, Think they are better than everyone else, Even the staff from the parachute regiment didnt get along with the staff training the infantry or the reme, It was a very odd thing to see as a 18 year old because i always assumed everyone was together, everyone was in it together going on the same journey, i didnt realise there was this divide within, I guess theres one thing you cant take out of a man even with military training, And thats there ego. The military is one of those things in which everyone has a outside perception of what its like but when your in you realise everyones perception was wrong, Absolute best time of my life though.
You didn't explain that the different regiments will and do fight each other, but the instant they come across a common enemy, that being anyone that isn't British army, they'll stop fighting each other, gang up and fight the common enemy, and if they have the energy afterwards, they'll go back to fighting each other. I worked with the Gurkha's in the Falklands and they did not understand why one army regiment fought another army regiment, but would fight together against the navy or the air force. I was in the R.Signals, and considering we never had a contingent of people much above a troop down there, we got away with drinking in any bar we wanted to. I have no idea why, I didn't, but a lot of Signals guys seemed to love the aggro between the regiments and fought like banshees.
@@jaidee9570 On the way back from the Falklands aboard the ship, there was a massive brawl between members of 2 Para and 3 Para. It was about who had fought the toughest battle. And for the Paras, every other service member who doesn't wear a red beret is known as a "crap hat", apart perhaps from the SAS guys.
1.5 miles in 8:30 is quite achievable, I done mines in average 7:15. P Company ain't "Kinda Fun", far from it. All arms P Company beat up is brutal, weeks of physical "fun time" 3 times a day until you get to attempt test week.
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.
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.
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.
See the.video of former professional .motorc le.racer Guy Martin ,really.fit wiry type of bloke.deeply intelligent.motor mechanic.and dare devil bloke who wanted to accompany them on.DDay jump so he was made to do P Company includ 😅ing milling.its in the video
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…
Most us brits couldn't either bro. They're special these guys.
Thank you bro 🫡❤🇬🇧
Anyone who walks a mile and does so putting their lives at risk is deserving of praise. And respect.
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 .
my dad was shot by a para in belfast in 1973 when he was 9 years old. Maybe it could have been your bother hahahhahah
@@WookieWarriorz doubt it my brother was born in 1970
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.
How do you know so much about Pokemon?
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
Your reactions are priceless!
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.
I met John Howard in the 80’s when on a school trip to France. We visited the Pegasus cafe on the anniversary of D Day. He was there with other men who fought alongside him. I still have a postcard with their signatures on it, which they did for all us school children.
Also, my uncle (who passed away last year ) was an extra in the Longest Day
There’s fierce rivalry between the Paras and the Royal Marines, as to who is the hardest and most elite!
Fantastic, thanks as always JJ
Paras - Gotta Catch Em All (or not!)
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.
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.
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
Watch some history of the Falklands War to find out about why the Paras have to be ready to tab long distances
I had to give up construction after 20 years, the boots and uneven ground have destroyed my feet. No idea how these guys do it day in day out! Mental!
I'm a huge lover of all things military so I'm excited for this. lots of love and God bless x
Love how that guy had Jones on his uniform, brings a whole new meaning to "Keeping up with the Jones's" 😂😂😂😂
I'd put my neck out drinking water too hard. 😅
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 😀
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.😅.
My friend was in the Para’s. First time in a balloon & then a plane he had to
Jump out of it!
Milling is short for windmilling....a fughting style of just swinging both arms ferouciosly looking like a windmill in the process
Hi buddy, I am a veteran of the RAF Regiment No2 Squadron, which is the airborne sqn, we do the exact same course as the Parachute Regiment, I did it at 18 and it practically killed me, but milling, the term comes from the way most recruits basically windmilling their arms about at each other, cause it's a new thing to go up and fight someone for most recruits.
A point to note. Over 2000 years ago we Brits watched the Roman Army kick our butts. Something to learn from and burned into our mentality.
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".😉
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.
Paras like the us airborne units will typically be dropped ahead of the main force to secure certain objectives.
The difference is when we the Paras arrive at the DZ we pick up our kit of webbing and bergans and TAB to the next location, the us airborne picked up there kit and threw it in the back of a 4 tonner and then climbed in laughing at us as they drove past. like to see them when theres no transport available.
My dad was a Para. He went through P Company the week after (then) Prince Charles completed the coarse. I used to love jumping off the practice tower as a kid, but, couldn't get on with guns (clay pigeon shoots) so I didn't follow him in.
There was a documentary on this a while back that shows you some troops going through the entire P Company Course. One of the things that's not immediately clear until you are deep in the process is that these tests are day after day with little rest in between. Fatigue from each day compounds making the next day that much harder.
The log race is supposedly one of the hardest because the weight difference across the shoulders and due to differences in peoples height, it can mess with the balance of the pole.
Edit if it's allowed, this is the Documentary, you may find it interesting: th-cam.com/video/Pl0cKJiXut0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=dYHFGQYBajnDoQWM
In fact it does appear these guys from this video are based on it.
This is how the British army could yomp or tab across the width of the Falkland island, carrying all their own kit and fight a battle at the other end. And win.
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. 😂
The telegraph pole carry test is 4 people in 2 groups. So double your weight number given until your switch out to the other cohort of your team for the next stint. It is not fun. Think of the bright side...once you get to an Air Assault Battalion you get to do this every week! The sales of maxi-pad female products go up the day before in the UK as they're great for taking the impact of the log on your shoulder. Milling is just going mental for 60 seconds punching the opponent as much as possible to test controlled aggression. One person will be skins (hence no top) and the other will be shirts. It's just battering the crap out of each other and seeing if you stop under command after time and never turn your back.
Now imagine some members of the " King's Guards" (as the Americans call them) also being Para's
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.
British Royal Marine Commandos have 8 months basic training, the longest in the world
P company is designed so that jo matter how fit you are, you will struggle. There will be pain and you will have to fight through it. Its about mental strength ad much as physical fitness.
Milling is a common English word. It describes what humans do at a shopping mall or young people milling around the bus stop.
I did the Parachute training course, a few days before we did the twenty mile march, an American, from the 82nd Airborne Division, joined us. He was over here doing a Parachute Regiment course, So, i'm told we are doing a 20 mile march in a couple of days, he said.
That's right, came the reply.
How often do you stop he asked.
He was told once.
Ok, halfway he said.
No after 20 miles someone else said.
But we are expected to march 20 miles and be ready to get into action, he replied.
So are we, another bloke said,
He went all white, all the colour drained from his face. He was a good man.
I like the part where you conflated Major John Frost with the American poet John Frost. If only he had had Edward Thomas's' back, with his paratrooper skills, at the Battle of Arras in 1917..."two roads diverged in a yellow wood...and I ran both of them in under four minutes with full pack...and that made all the difference..."
😂
Lol being a sociopath and/or psychopath is no barrier in the paras 🤣🤣🤣
I can hardly lift my kettle to make a cuppa
Have you done obi wan nairobi SAS.. The real footage not the cargoon version.
The parachute regiment trained on the same camp as us in 2008 at catterick, Basic training wasnt much different compared to normal infantry, Specialised training is where it gets tasty after passing out, I personally had bad interactions with the parachute regiment, The recruits and the staff had a chip on there shoulder, Think they are better than everyone else, Even the staff from the parachute regiment didnt get along with the staff training the infantry or the reme, It was a very odd thing to see as a 18 year old because i always assumed everyone was together, everyone was in it together going on the same journey, i didnt realise there was this divide within, I guess theres one thing you cant take out of a man even with military training, And thats there ego. The military is one of those things in which everyone has a outside perception of what its like but when your in you realise everyones perception was wrong, Absolute best time of my life though.
You didn't explain that the different regiments will and do fight each other, but the instant they come across a common enemy, that being anyone that isn't British army, they'll stop fighting each other, gang up and fight the common enemy, and if they have the energy afterwards, they'll go back to fighting each other.
I worked with the Gurkha's in the Falklands and they did not understand why one army regiment fought another army regiment, but would fight together against the navy or the air force. I was in the R.Signals, and considering we never had a contingent of people much above a troop down there, we got away with drinking in any bar we wanted to. I have no idea why, I didn't, but a lot of Signals guys seemed to love the aggro between the regiments and fought like banshees.
@@jaidee9570 On the way back from the Falklands aboard the ship, there was a massive brawl between members of 2 Para and 3 Para. It was about who had fought the toughest battle. And for the Paras, every other service member who doesn't wear a red beret is known as a "crap hat", apart perhaps from the SAS guys.
1.5 miles in 8:30 is quite achievable, I done mines in average 7:15. P Company ain't "Kinda Fun", far from it. All arms P Company beat up is brutal, weeks of physical "fun time" 3 times a day until you get to attempt test week.
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.
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.
Don't forget ballymurphy, when they killed teenagers, a priest and a woman
1:19 there is no way they are screening out sociopaths dude. they make the best killers.
They usually get dropped behind enemy lines.
Just wait until he sees the Royal Marine training 😂😂
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.
How many people in the SAS special forces are from the Paras
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.
aw 😂Bless, that 7 months para training would not be fun....!
Kev pipe down cabbage head 😁
No they mean without parachutes
😂
See the.video of former professional .motorc le.racer Guy Martin ,really.fit wiry type of bloke.deeply intelligent.motor mechanic.and dare devil bloke who wanted to accompany them on.DDay jump so he was made to do P Company includ 😅ing milling.its in the video
That "basic" medical test image where the blood pressure cuff is placed over that clothing would certainly not measure pressure properly...
Hopefully just a publicity photo
Many studies have shown that as long as the clothing isn't too thick it makes almost no difference. Over a regular shirt wouldn't matter.
My mates was done naked so it's just a publicity photo
@@keithcaldwell7673 So with a sample size of one (your mate) you've concluded it's never done over the shirt?
@@Shoomer1988 full army medical is si I would say a para medical certainly is ok
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.
I'd say the RM are more versatile.
aye right yha fanny :)
Why is this guy talking like hes frightened someone will hear him.....its just weird.
You interrupt to much just watch it and then comment I’m turning this off because of it
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…
First
Not that it matters but you're not.
How many people in the SAS special forces are from the Paras