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Parachute Regiments P coy Videos

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  • #2
    Beano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭Beano


    I cant watch the videos in work but are they from the documentary they made in the 80's?


  • #3
    Pathfinder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 292 ✭✭Pathfinder


    Beano wrote: »
    I cant watch the videos in work but are they from the documentary they made in the 80's?


    One series is from 82 the other the 90s.

    The trainasium.

    http://www2.norwich.edu/spage/image018.jpg


  • #4
    KEVIN B
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭KEVIN B


    i be there to


  • #5
    Cato
    Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭Cato


    yeah i recently watched all these just a week or two ago very good shows, training looks brutal is it like this in the PDF? do we have that cannon/log/stretcher run in the PDF? because that looks deadly...

    Also, i think some of the NCOs were being nice infront of the camera in some parts when you would expect them to eat the head of someone...:D


  • #6
    Pathfinder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 292 ✭✭Pathfinder


    Cato wrote: »
    yeah i recently watched all these just a week or two ago very good shows, training looks brutal is it like this in the PDF? do we have that cannon/log/stretcher run in the PDF? because that looks deadly...

    Also, i think some of the NCOs were being nice infront of the camera in some parts when you would expect them to eat the head of someone...:D



    The Paras role is traditionally as NATO's frontline Spearhead troops, the role they have historically trained for was to hold up Soviet armour in Germany in the event of hostilities. It was estimated in the event of such hostilities the average Paras battle life expectancy would have been 9 hours.

    Thus their training was/is ultra competitive, but it means they are not really suited as peacekeepers, although its a role they have also served.

    The Irish army train for a very different role, to defend the country in the event of invasion, to defend the state from armed subversives and in a UN peace keeping role. I don't know if the republic needs such a competitive infantry unit, nor if the cost would justify it, each Para costs £37k to train.

    The stretcher race is used in British army infantry units as a team building exercise as well as a training exercise.


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  • #7
    Quis Separabit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 61 ✭✭Quis Separabit


    Heres a good one.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efGu-OXs2FY&feature=related


  • #8
    Cutaway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭Cutaway


    I remember watching some of those videos years ago, Thanks for uploading them!


  • #9
    Pathfinder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 292 ✭✭Pathfinder


    No problem,Glad they don't cause offence.


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