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When fools like you stop promoting Bankers Armies to our young men, the world will begin to change. ALL wars since Napoleon have been at the behest of bankers who print money out of thin air. Sort your shit out.
20.46 that the best advice given "stay off the piss." Alcohol messes up your system. If you want to do a physical activity for longer duration of time then that's the advice.
@@gerardburton1081 rubbish. Drink drink drink and drink some more. Or don't be such a brainwashed idiot in the first place and don't sign up to be cannon Fodder in a Bankers war.
I remember watching this in I think 92ish on C4. An old school mate joined the paras around the same time. Didn’t see him for 2 years and when I did the change was unreal. We went for a run and at the time I was a decent marathon runner (sub 3 hrs) and he cained me within 5 miles! I was wasted and what made it more painful is he ran in the old black school pumps and me in my go faster Nike got smoked! I think he ended up with SAS for a few years if the rumours are true. I believe he is now a geography teacher. God help the kids who don’t comply! Thanks for posting I really enjoyed watching it again
I met some of these instructors, literally a month after this program aired. At 15 I did this thing called 'a look at life in the army', it was a week at depot Para in Aldrrshot (Browning Barracks I think) being treated like a soldier, training like a soldier. Even went on the trainasium frame. Hence the comment from one of the instructors to a recrut who's bottling it, "we have 14 year old boys who do this course"...I was one such teen who did it. But it was the 90s, and the rave scene was going on which I chose to get lost in instead.
This brings back lots of memories some great some bad. What a course log race was a beast. I remember my Staff all Falklands vets. The best brotherhood for life. Cheers Chris 🍻
My old man was a para. He was in Aden in 1967, he remembers the training like it was yesterday especially the agony. Thank you for uploading this Chris.
I was in depo in the shot wen thay film this !! This was the 5'AB days way b4 the 16AA' days!! That now is.. the REG dont do the fan'dance anymore like us oldswet PARAS from the shot day's m8!! I was P'company instructor 4some yrs!! I remember this well. 😊😊AB ALL THE WAY BROTHER FROM A OLDSWET ex2para green on mucker!!
P-Company: The minimum fitness requirement to serve in the Reg. For those that don't know this film shows the All-Arms-Course that offers the opportunity for serving soldiers to join Airborne Forces as opposed to Parachute Regiment recruits known as J.O.E.’s (Joined On Enlistment). One of the P-Company Sergeants in this was my P-Company Sergeant Major, can’t for the life of me remember his name, he's the chap that talks about the staff always carrying some kind of injury. I went on to become a Reg PTi. 25 years later I still consider receiving my maroon machine one of my greatest ever achievements. It was character revealing, learned a lot about myself, what I was capable of and the value of being part of something that transcended self. Fond memories, great upload, thanks for posting. 👌
I did 6 weeks of pre para for the all arms course for 9 para RE in 1971. A pair of para NCO'S worked us to death. Been at P company a week doing well, managed to stay in the middle of all runs, not the quickest not the slowest. I jumped across a ditch with a pack on fell on my knee concrete, cracked the knee cap, that was it. 10 years later the crack separated a piece dropped inside the joint. Have a nice scar there! I am 72 now but still go ski-ing every year.
I disagree with what the OC said at the beginning, he said its aguebly hardest SF course in the British army. I know a man who did all arms para & all arms commando, he felt all arms commando was harder. You have to crawl along a rope balancing on it then you have to fall off hang by arms & regain, 3 attempts & you fail. You get chance at retake if you fail 2 events in test week. The rope regain failed most people!
@rk24133927 He said outside of SF training its "ARGUABLY" the hardest course in the army. He used the word arguably for a reason, meaning it's subjective. When I served I knew guys who had done both courses, some would say P coy is harder others the Commando course. It's a personal opinion.
I went through and passed P Company in 1984. I was a PTI with my own unit but Christ, most of it was a blur. Nobody but nobody skates through this; I don't care who you are. The milling was the first thing Monday morning and the trainasium was in the trees. Another thing... 3 lives? I seem to recall you couldn't fail anything whatsoever and any drop out/the wagon equaled an RTU. Have I got that right? All a depressingly long time ago now! An incredible memory nonetheless.
Hearing you bro! Three lives!?!?! The clip shown is the officers and ‘other arms’ P Company. In our world, One fail = you failed. He, he, I can’t recall how many times I’ve been over the top of Engineers Bridge, they even got us to hang by our fingers under the bridge on an ‘I’ beam and try to cross the canal under it when we were all able to run along the top of it. World’s gone soft 😖👍
@@tomandsamuel Ah yes. That makes a whole lot more sense. I stand corrected! Another thing... I could swear I recall staying out the first night of of test week and digging shell scrapes following the first day's tests. Have I got that right?! Did anyone else do that?
@@billyaitken7461 Those were the days, I passed P Company in 1980. Oh yes, Engineers Bridge, over and under, more than once. If I remember correctly, wasn't that bridge on the same road they used for the BFT?
My DS was Cpl Clarkson kearsley. He was evil at first then he opened up like a military dictionary and taught me everything a soldier would ever need I , my career after that was my choice because of pro commitment, I never let my brothers down , self pride, courage in my commitment and a big moustache.
Ha ha, get F$*#@‘! CK was my office boss on my last N.I. tour, working intel / photographic 😎👍. 24824995. I passed P Company when I was 17…… meanwhile in Australia we’re now classing young offenders below the age of 18 as ‘children’ ‼️🤯🤨, does this mean that Britain is like Rawanda and has ‘child soldiers’ ??? The world has gone soft and I can no longer keep it safe😞‼️
I served in an infantry reconnaissance platoon (not the British army) however the standard of physical fitness I had been brought up to back then was phenomenal. A lot of the instructors were inspired by units like the parachute regiment. They set a great standard.
I remember being about 12yo to 13yo years old watching this and hearing sir say ( we have 14yo school boys doing this) thinking to myself I wouldn't mind trying that. 4 years later I did!!! "Number 23, SIR, Pass, SIR, best part of pcoy!!!
Fascinating, I found it very interesting and informative. I knew there was a reason I joined the RAF Medical Branch. Top marks for the sheer effort you put in, nothing like a British soldier-as many have found to their cost. Thank you for sharing this. Greetings from Tasmania Australia. 👍🇬🇧🇦🇺
Oh wow, good old days. I was in 441 platoon para reg 1977 when I went through this training at browning. The 'trainasian' was in the woods then. So many old faces and memories. Youth is amazing. Digger
I was on the next P company after this one in November 1991. The filmed the all arms one while we were getting thrashed as Joes. I still remember going up Penny Fan and the DS who was shouting at one of them putting his rifle on the floor on this video was my DS and he stunk of beer and still looked out of breath at the top where we were blowing out of our arses. I was number 3 as it starts in alphabetical order and when they did the beret parade number 1,2 both failed so I was the first pass from 570 platoon.
Hello James, it's been a long time mate but I remember you well, I wonder if you can remember who No.2 was, initials DB, we were in the same room at Depot. Hope your keeping well pal😉👍
The Log Race is just pure evil. I recall early on in my event, three logs trying to get thru a track wide enough only for two. The CSM of P Company saw me back-fist a guy in the face on the next log, and shouted, "Go on! Kick em outta the way!" Our log lost 3 guys and still came second. There were loads of other guys dropped off their logs.
Towards the end, so true what the guy says about everyone carrying a permanent injury. I served as a scout in the US Army and every NCO had back, knee or shoulder problems (or a combination thereof). We used to joke that you could guess someone's rank by their injuries. One injury meant they were a Sergeant, two a Staff Sergeant, three a Platoon Sergeant. The body isn't designed to take that much punishment that frequently for that long. Still wouldn't trade it for anything in the world though.
At 15 I joined the Royal Green Jackets army Cadets... i can still strip a 303, What a kick those rifles had. Had target practice with 9mm, Stirling sub machine gun, Jimpee and SLR. Can still remember all my drill up to this day and some field craft. I'm 59. Our cadet unit was A company drill hall situated near Victoria station London. B Company Royal Green Jackets cadet unit were a real tight crew. We were always competing with them. We always use to go away on weekend camps, at the regular soldier HQs. And we were always impressed when we were lining up for breakfast in the dining hall /mess of those camps , and out the window, we could see the regulars marching back to camp from an all night exercise. What great memories. British Soldiers are ALWAYs on point, I've nothing but admiration for our Hero's.
The hills are brutal if YOU DONT KNOW WHERE YOURE GOING. I would like to think I was a dying breed because I had some of those staff on my P coy winter 1990. Went to 2 Para in Jan 1991. We went to sennybridge, we were going to drop in on Saddam but it never happened. Great memories and very proud to have served in one of the greatest platoons known to earth..
Some legendary faces amongst those DS! I saw the hand bumpers the lads were polishing the floors with and remembered the beasting I got in nick have to bumper the ceiling with one! Never a dull time!
a couple of comments about how its easier now than back in the day, I Don't know about that, but the job 16th air assault brigade did recently in Afghan and Iraq, these young kid's are outstanding
Graham Carter was the youngest to serve in the Falklands or one of them as I recall, little fella, fit as fuck, came on our adventure training with us in Scotland
When I was in the Canadian Military back in late 1979. I remember these British soldiers at our training base in Alberta. Man, some of the stories they told about their tours in Northern Ireland were insane
My mate was in this intake he's in the front middle of the photo no 23. He failed p-company 6 times passed on the 7th attempt, this was his 1st. Ended up a wo2 Apache pilot
I did the course shortly after this one. Sgt Mathews RA was my DS. I bounced off the cargo net on the trynasium "get back and do it again you ponse".Haha. I recognised so many faces on this vid it takes me right back. As some were from my unit and i would get to know them when I arrived at the brigade.. The training area. Browning barracks. The DS. Best brigade 5 AB was. The maroon machine. Hardest but best thing i ever did. Not for the faint hearted. Once you had that beret and those wings. There was a sense of satisfaction you were standing with like minded people. People talk about being airborne. In my mind there is only one airborne and thats the British airborne because unless youve done P Coy well...anyone can jump out of an aeroplane not everyone can pass that course
After training in Depot Para in Aldershot my platoon was posted to to the regular Battalions. I was sent on a PTIs course and then on to the Depot Gym as a PTI for 4years, Major Barry Andrews.Then joined a regular parachute unit ,and remained Para for 45 years , promoted to major prior to leaving ,eventually getting a retired officers post
From the second you started back then, the depot Para staff worked hard at weeding-out those who were quitters. Back then the Olympic British bobsled team was guys from the Paras and the RAF…….. so we were paraded in the corridor and it was one recruits birthday. They told him they’d arranged a birthday surprise of some Bobsledding………they made him climb in a steel dustbin and kicked it down a flight of stairs!! 🤣 Happy days! Thunderflash was the ‘starting pistol’ for the P Coy Log Race 😊👍
@@DB-ok8zf Jed Willets got handed a 97 candidate platoon to weed down to 30-odd as quick as he could. “Weed out the weak to spend the time on those that will make it”.
I crossed the bridge both above and below and was not in the Para's . I was with the RAOC at the time and was doing an O type engagement , I then had to face that Ba***rd again when I was in the TAVR . Loved the comment "if your gonna fall, fall into the water" it was about 10ft deep if that ....fun times indeed.
I did 'P' Company in 86 and was told that the stretcher race would probably be the toughest thing I would ever do. It was, and the team I was part of won it. One of my proudest times.
The log race was what did it for me, fucking hated that. Easily the hardest part that I found, and I'd rather inject my eyeballs with bleach than do the tranasium again.
The Stretcher Race was the hardest event on P-Company. The Trainasium for me was the easiest. I was a roofer before I went to depot in Feb of 94 and I was hanging off scaffolding all day with that that old job. Brings back great memories (593) Plt I passed out with went (3 Para)
Yes karl the stretcher race was brutal thats why its the last event after a hard week i still passed though ,i never thought the back end of a 4 tonner would look so beutiful 😆
I completed "P" Company back in 1968 (327 Platoon) when we were living in Maida Bks before moving to the new billets when it opened, we then completed parachute training at RAF Abingdon before passing out and joining 2 Para in Hong Kong...................a superb Regiment with a special band of brothers.
Great stuff Chris, I used to love this stuff when I was a nipper, along with the Orbis magazine 'The Elite' and anything on the telly about the iranian Embassy attack. I even joined army cadets and was all set for a life in the Special Forces. But then I took acid and ended up at art school. Thanks for uploading, I still love this stuff and really enjoyed that. Hope you're well, my friend.
Nice one brother! 'I took acid and ended up in art school' - that made me smile. Seriously, other than the balloon jump and we sailed to Barbados once, you didn't miss much - in fact most of it was quite boring - not to mention that most veterans seem to carry massive baggage :)
@@ChrisThrall Yes, as you've said before, it was quite a shock to me when we first spoke and I asked you about PSTD and you said it's the damage that people have BEFORE they enter the forces that's of more significance. Anyway, Take care, Chris.
I first watched this in late '90 and joined the Reg in 94. The CSM was my first RSM. Spanner Spence (who threatened to bin the kid for sitting down in the hills) was in 2 PARA, and I later bumped into Steve Morris (who says you do not have what we require) in Catterick when he was CSM P Company. Brilliant times and brilliant soldiers. My depot platoon Sgt was in the 1982 series The Paras. What a guy he was! Fecking hardcore comes to mind, but he was a fair guy. Luckily, I followed in their footsteps and completed 28 years, mainly in 2 PARA (a stint in 3 PARA), 4 PARA, and 129 jumps. Luckily, I walked away from them all.
I did P Coy in 1968 the log race and steeple chase plus the South Downs March. I remember running down the hill there were bodies all over the place as we rounded the bend there was a pub with some 9ld guys taking the piss out of us.
Takes me back to Depot in 1985. Kev D was a Cpl PTI, great motivator and Spanner was a Cpl in my platoon. Phil H the medic, Trogg taking the pictures. Depot cookhouse, what a hole, it takes me back to queuing up the stairs to get in for scoff and having 5 minutes to get it down your neck, the pissing rain in Sennybridge, definitely takes me back. Horrible at the time but those 6 months were great times. Memories that last a lifetime.
Jesus I remember having to do bed blocks and hospital corners in basic…wouldn’t have missed it though, happy days even when cold, wet, tired and hungry. But, being a ‘hat’ I never had to endure P Coy, it would have broken me
Loved this documentary! I was in the RAF, as an aircraft engineer at the time. Was lucky enough to meet some Paras, Marines and SAS during my time. Great lads - even though they didn't like us very much! ha. Did my sports parachute course at Weston-on-the-green in '98 and managed 14 jumps in 2 weeks. One of the guys on the course, but kept separate, was Lee Clegg. Great bloke.
That's the guy who shot an unarmed young girl and her friend dead then feigned injury and lied that they'd tried to kill himself and the rest of his patrol. Karen Reilly didn't deserve to be killed barely a child with her whole life in front of her. Her parents were broken hearted and their lives destroyed.
Same here RAF did the weston course ‘92 I think. After the service I got to tandem with the Red Devils for charity. The guy I jumped with was a pathfinder para, we got on famously, just before our jump I told him I was ex-RAF and on our descent he put us into a mad spin scared the bollocks off me. Good lad hope he’s doing well.
Went through Depot with 373 Pln. in1971.Training staff were tough but fair. Had a great couple of sgt's like Roger Jenner & Jimmy Kerr. Great cpls & Pln commander. Went to B coy 2 Para transferred to Sp coy Mortar Pln. Served with guys who are still my brothers after all these years. A privilage to have soldiered with them.
I love programs like this, doesn't matter which branch of the military. There is a vid from Mike Thwaite from 2022 that covers P Company. Looks like there are some changes to the training.
I completed p company in the 70's but failed. I did it in my last term of junior leaders and we did the pre para at Bovington on top of our normal RAC training. We then went to Aldershot for the two weeks of the test. Tge final test was pen Y Fan in Wales followed by the stretcher race. I did well in the stretcher race but clapped out on the mountain. Also I hesitated on the bridge jump, I think that was what failed me. It certainly made me fit though. I used to regularly come first in Squadron runs in my regiment.
I did the P Course for National Service men in 1956. There were no three chances, no advice and quick RTU. Who wanted NS men in the Paras? I made it but why I did it I still wonder.
@Kruger - I remember the hills for doing my ankles in !! Oh yes those other 4 , esp Long ( torture ) Valley with injuries , I think I numbed my brain & body just to keep going.
No 12 Cpl RE actually passed and eventually became the SSM of 9 Para, RE. I was actually a junior leader the same time as him back in 1983. I passed P company back in 1985 when the trainasium was still in the woods built around the trees!!
I did all arms P company in 87. The stretcher race in isolation would not be so bad - but as the last test with my feet in rag order it was tough - made more difficult as a result of two of my team unable to keep up in the first 400 metres and they weren’t even on the stretcher. Staying in the game to overcome the brutal starting pace is essential. Afterwards you get into a rhythm and it is just psychological. Everyone is on their last legs, you have to stay focused and refuse to give in. The Trinasium was fun for me as I am part simian. Other than being at the front I have no recall of the Log race. However - I have suffered with crepitus in my shoulders ever since that stretcher race, Shoulders are not designed to have a scaffolding pole bouncing on them, the idea is everyone stays in step to avoid bounce……pfff.
@@Aindriuh They might be FALs from 82, decommissioned and used as weighted weapons. The prominent cocking handle was a terror if you doing it the wrong way round on an event
The best of the best the Parachute Regiment true soldiers.I see the training they go through and it reminds me I’m a old man they are super fit determined young men a credit to the armed forces.I don’t know how they do it the body is pushed beyond breaking point they are probably the best trained soldiers in the world.I am a brown noser when it comes to the Paras the commandos and the SAS.They where my heroes as a kid a army cadet they where Gods to us us kids came from a deprived background we had nothing they where everything we wanted to be.I’ve spent my life regretting not being a soldier for those that make the grade be proud you are what protects society from the worlds political nutters.
Come on Just because they jump out of planes Doesn't make them any better than other units We didn't jump out of planes but we had a great Free fall team it was popular in our lot. Most infantry units in the British army were good at their job .
@@12dougreed My dad grandad where South Lancashire regiment very committed soldiers.I agree with you all of the regiments in the British army are highly trained good soldiers.I think anyone who gets through Para selection deserves respect.I didn’t say they are better than anyone else I just think that selection for the Royal Marines The Parachute regiment the SAS is extremely difficult.Whatever regiment you belong to be proud look out for your mates.
They train at Helles Barracks, back in 1990 I trained there as this was depot for Royal Signals quite a few of guys I trained with went back there to do all arms P Coy. Strange how things change over time.
Pti with black tash looks like the one who was at litchfield in about 94 95ish when i did P.R.A.C. we did 1.5 days with the regular army then rest of the week we went over with the paras.... we got put in a red tracksuit and told that we wont march anywhere we run even to the scoffhouse... 1st day we sat down and watched a short promo video on vhs of the paras at work ..i remember a army dune buggy type thing going through the mud lol ...at one point in the short film prince charles came on in uniform and all the pti' slagged him right off saying he aint even earned the beret 🤷♂️ the guy with the tash ( if the same guy we had ) said ..right now you lot ..your here to see if you got wat it takes just to aply for the paras .. you do not mix with anyone else other than the lads here with you you eat together you sleep together and if any of you go to the nafi bar i dont want to see you mixing with lads from anywhere eles but those on P.R.A.C .... I loved it ... i remember the trinasium lol the intructer would say turn ...on the rope then shout spread eagle and youd fall backwards into the net ... there was also a jump where you jump from a higher board to a lower board ..the drop was only about a foot or 2 and the gap was only a few feet but as it was high up many of the lafs arseholes went lol ... think they called it an illusion jump ... the day before i was due to go back up to litchfield to start basic training i was arrested for a fight over a month before and i was remanded in a you offenders prison ... i had just come back from getting my train tickets from my travel warrant ...still remember the way i went london euston then on to birmingham newstreet then change to litchfield and we got picked up at the station ..we were all told before hand not to have any military style bags as the ira was still a threat .the corperal that picked us up was in civi clothes and a normal minibus.... I was convicted for the fight and got 90 days in young offenders i did 14 days of those on remand ... i showed the courts my paper work and the police when i got nicked that i was going up to better my life in the army but they couldnt care less ... shame really as i spent many times in and out of prison for stupid fighting ( never started fights just like the one that stopped me going back up to litchfield ).. the one goid thing that i got from P.R.A.C was fittness ... i always trained ... my lodger and best mate went on to the war in bosnia as a royal engineer ... if i remember rightly after p.r.a.c on leaving before comming back for basic training they told us theres a good chance after the 26 weeks training that we would be posted out to a place called Zaire in africa as something was bubling up over there.... i went through life gutted my opertunity was taken away on the sunday the day before i was due to leave again .. i had pals who were royal marines and in other infantry regiments ... i was alwas envious all the way up until i decided to head over to france and join the french foreign legion 11 years ago and the rest they say is history 😁 bloody hell reading this back i could probably write a book 🤣 prob need to learn how to spell 1st and as for my gramma ..well its worse than a 6 year olds 🙈 thanks for uploading this video it bought back some fun memories of my week up at the litchfield barracks 💪😎
I did the TA course in the late 80's and bloody hell was it tough , we had about 10% or less pass, which included many ex regular hats that failed the course
I have tremendous respect for those men who can pass ‘P’ company and go on to have a carrier in the ‘PARAS’, it is brutal and I know some veteran Paras that say the P company testing was the hardest thing they ever did outside of combat, and considering that some of these friends went Down South and fought like hell to return the islands to their rightful inhabitants I can easily understand what they mean, but one thing bugs me about this video is the assumption that an injury can always be found by a medic if there is one to be found, but not all injuries are detectable by a physical examination, sometimes it takes x-rays, scans, ultrasound and other procedures, so unless the medic has multi-function vision and hands it is a bit unjust to bin a person under testing, do candidates get sent to a specialist doctor or just a doctor who can request a deeper examination?, perhaps someone could clarify this small point for me. Thanks 😀👍🇬🇧🏴🇺🇦
As the Major said, there will always be the suspicion that the candidate is just wanting to quit and because of time constraints and limited medical resources this means that some unlucky fellas are going to be accused of feigning injury when they really are damaged. It is brutal and unfair but it is what it is.
having been told to stand on my head while chatting with the CO at the grand age of 25 around 1995, decided this brain washing wasnt my cup of tea lol... but Kudos to the guys who completed the course.
My brother passed p company, he said you got breasted for being the slowest or the fastest or even if you were in the middle, basically you could do no good.
No wonder the Argis got beat . If these guys were coming to up to my dug in . My hands would be straight up in the air saying I didn’t want to fight in the first place . I surrender chaps . 😂
Watching this and being up trees a s a youngling and Dad sending me up roofs on building projects I could have easily done this. Its all in the mindset. Once you have no fear anything is possible. Maybe its the reason I have a face like A clumsy Bee keeper?
@@RobertGeez Same for the course I was on, could have been on the same one. Think we had 5 stand up fails, which, in comparison to this video, seems quite low.
@@herrickmaster77 That was a brilliant program. One of the DS Corporals was Al Slater, he joined the SAS and was killed by the IRA in county Fermanagh not long after getting Badged. You can still find it on here.
OMG, this is the closest tomy time in depot Para Aldershot 1989 553 platoon......weird seeing those old buildings again. Memories and emotions all stirred up again....7.5 years in 2 Para in the end !
Thanks Chris I’m stuck into the old ML Royal Marine videos absolutely class they were some stuff back then I’m sure is still brutally tough now but instructors leading the way climbing with no ropes in the dark 😯
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When fools like you stop promoting Bankers Armies to our young men, the world will begin to change.
ALL wars since Napoleon have been at the behest of bankers who print money out of thin air. Sort your shit out.
I am unable , no access to finance ?
20.46 that the best advice given "stay off the piss." Alcohol messes up your system. If you want to do a physical activity for longer duration of time then that's the advice.
@@gerardburton1081 rubbish. Drink drink drink and drink some more. Or don't be such a brainwashed idiot in the first place and don't sign up to be cannon Fodder in a Bankers war.
@Dave 2020 the fact you joined the army indicates very little has ever made sense to you.
I remember watching this in I think 92ish on C4.
An old school mate joined the paras around the same time. Didn’t see him for 2 years and when I did the change was unreal. We went for a run and at the time I was a decent marathon runner (sub 3 hrs) and he cained me within 5 miles! I was wasted and what made it more painful is he ran in the old black school pumps and me in my go faster Nike got smoked! I think he ended up with SAS for a few years if the rumours are true. I believe he is now a geography teacher. God help the kids who don’t comply!
Thanks for posting I really enjoyed watching it again
I met some of these instructors, literally a month after this program aired. At 15 I did this thing called 'a look at life in the army', it was a week at depot Para in Aldrrshot (Browning Barracks I think) being treated like a soldier, training like a soldier. Even went on the trainasium frame. Hence the comment from one of the instructors to a recrut who's bottling it, "we have 14 year old boys who do this course"...I was one such teen who did it.
But it was the 90s, and the rave scene was going on which I chose to get lost in instead.
Hi Mikey, from what year is this P Company? Cheers
@Ry43deck it's got to be at least late 80s
to early 90s. I did in 92.
I joined the RRF in 1990.
This brings back lots of memories some great some bad. What a course log race was a beast. I remember my Staff all Falklands vets. The best brotherhood for life. Cheers Chris 🍻
My old man was a para. He was in Aden in 1967, he remembers the training like it was yesterday especially the agony. Thank you for uploading this Chris.
Mine too😘
Hi Jack..just read your post ..your dad may have known my dad ..he was also para ..and was also in Aden ..not sure of the year,though
My old fella was an irish guardsman who did p company (and passed) was guards independent para, was in Aden in 66/67...
My uncle was in 3 Para Mortar Platoon about that time, nickname was Mingo..
Ask him if he new Gerald Clark my uncle
I was in depo in the shot wen thay film this !! This was the 5'AB days way b4 the 16AA' days!! That now is.. the REG dont do the fan'dance anymore like us oldswet PARAS from the shot day's m8!! I was P'company instructor 4some yrs!! I remember this well. 😊😊AB ALL THE WAY BROTHER FROM A OLDSWET ex2para green on mucker!!
P-Company: The minimum fitness requirement to serve in the Reg. For those that don't know this film shows the All-Arms-Course that offers the opportunity for serving soldiers to join Airborne Forces as opposed to Parachute Regiment recruits known as J.O.E.’s (Joined On Enlistment). One of the P-Company Sergeants in this was my P-Company Sergeant Major, can’t for the life of me remember his name, he's the chap that talks about the staff always carrying some kind of injury. I went on to become a Reg PTi. 25 years later I still consider receiving my maroon machine one of my greatest ever achievements. It was character revealing, learned a lot about myself, what I was capable of and the value of being part of something that transcended self. Fond memories, great upload, thanks for posting. 👌
I did 6 weeks of pre para for the all arms course for 9 para RE in 1971. A pair of para NCO'S worked us to death. Been at P company a week doing well, managed to stay in the middle of all runs, not the quickest not the slowest. I jumped across a ditch with a pack on fell on my knee concrete, cracked the knee cap, that was it. 10 years later the crack separated a piece dropped inside the joint. Have a nice scar there! I am 72 now but still go ski-ing every year.
I disagree with what the OC said at the beginning, he said its aguebly hardest SF course in the British army. I know a man who did all arms para & all arms commando, he felt all arms commando was harder. You have to crawl along a rope balancing on it then you have to fall off hang by arms & regain, 3 attempts & you fail. You get chance at retake if you fail 2 events in test week. The rope regain failed most people!
@rk24133927 He said outside of SF training its "ARGUABLY" the hardest course in the army. He used the word arguably for a reason, meaning it's subjective. When I served I knew guys who had done both courses, some would say P coy is harder others the Commando course. It's a personal opinion.
It may have been Steve Morris. He certainly went back as CSM.
I went through and passed P Company in 1984. I was a PTI with my own unit but Christ, most of it was a blur. Nobody but nobody skates through this; I don't care who you are. The milling was the first thing Monday morning and the trainasium was in the trees. Another thing... 3 lives? I seem to recall you couldn't fail anything whatsoever and any drop out/the wagon equaled an RTU. Have I got that right? All a depressingly long time ago now! An incredible memory nonetheless.
Hearing you bro! Three lives!?!?! The clip shown is the officers and ‘other arms’ P Company. In our world, One fail = you failed. He, he, I can’t recall how many times I’ve been over the top of Engineers Bridge, they even got us to hang by our fingers under the bridge on an ‘I’ beam and try to cross the canal under it when we were all able to run along the top of it. World’s gone soft 😖👍
I think the 3 lives was during the prep phase in week 1. The actual P coy tests don’t allow fails I believe.
@@tomandsamuel Ah yes. That makes a whole lot more sense. I stand corrected!
Another thing... I could swear I recall staying out the first night of of test week and digging shell scrapes following the first day's tests. Have I got that right?! Did anyone else do that?
@@billyaitken7461 Those were the days, I passed P Company in 1980. Oh yes, Engineers Bridge, over and under, more than once. If I remember correctly, wasn't that bridge on the same road they used for the BFT?
@@denis888red Hankley Common if I remember right.
My DS was Cpl Clarkson kearsley. He was evil at first then he opened up like a military dictionary and taught me everything a soldier would ever need I , my career after that was my choice because of pro commitment, I never let my brothers down , self pride, courage in my commitment and a big moustache.
The confused modern boys of today need a guy like this as a beacon. Happy you had such an experience
CK was my NCO for a time at Lichfield during basic training.
Ck well one on them as there were 3 was my csm nice bloke but don't know which one he was. I think all 3 were claimed to 3 para
Simon rogers, he was a corporal im talking 1998. Clarkson Kearsley. 3 para.
Ha ha, get F$*#@‘! CK was my office boss on my last N.I. tour, working intel / photographic 😎👍. 24824995.
I passed P Company when I was 17…… meanwhile in Australia we’re now classing young offenders below the age of 18 as ‘children’ ‼️🤯🤨, does this mean that Britain is like Rawanda and has ‘child soldiers’ ??? The world has gone soft and I can no longer keep it safe😞‼️
I served in an infantry reconnaissance platoon (not the British army) however the standard of physical fitness I had been brought up to back then was phenomenal. A lot of the instructors were inspired by units like the parachute regiment. They set a great standard.
Which country you serve
South African by the sound of it.
This documentary captivated me as an early teen, joined as soon as I was able.
I remember being about 12yo to 13yo years old watching this and hearing sir say ( we have 14yo school boys doing this) thinking to myself I wouldn't mind trying that. 4 years later I did!!! "Number 23, SIR, Pass, SIR, best part of pcoy!!!
Fascinating, I found it very interesting and informative. I knew there was a reason I joined the RAF Medical Branch. Top marks for the sheer effort you put in, nothing like a British soldier-as many have found to their cost. Thank you for sharing this. Greetings from Tasmania Australia. 👍🇬🇧🇦🇺
Oh wow, good old days. I was in 441 platoon para reg 1977 when I went through this training at browning. The 'trainasian' was in the woods then. So many old faces and memories. Youth is amazing. Digger
I was on the next P company after this one in November 1991. The filmed the all arms one while we were getting thrashed as Joes. I still remember going up Penny Fan and the DS who was shouting at one of them putting his rifle on the floor on this video was my DS and he stunk of beer and still looked out of breath at the top where we were blowing out of our arses. I was number 3 as it starts in alphabetical order and when they did the beret parade number 1,2 both failed so I was the first pass from 570 platoon.
Hello James, it's been a long time mate but I remember you well, I wonder if you can remember who No.2 was, initials DB, we were in the same room at Depot. Hope your keeping well pal😉👍
The Log Race is just pure evil. I recall early on in my event, three logs trying to get thru a track wide enough only for two. The CSM of P Company saw me back-fist a guy in the face on the next log, and shouted, "Go on! Kick em outta the way!"
Our log lost 3 guys and still came second. There were loads of other guys dropped off their logs.
Towards the end, so true what the guy says about everyone carrying a permanent injury. I served as a scout in the US Army and every NCO had back, knee or shoulder problems (or a combination thereof). We used to joke that you could guess someone's rank by their injuries. One injury meant they were a Sergeant, two a Staff Sergeant, three a Platoon Sergeant. The body isn't designed to take that much punishment that frequently for that long. Still wouldn't trade it for anything in the world though.
At 15 I joined the Royal Green Jackets army Cadets... i can still strip a 303, What a kick those rifles had. Had target practice with 9mm, Stirling sub machine gun, Jimpee and SLR. Can still remember all my drill up to this day and some field craft. I'm 59. Our cadet unit was A company drill hall situated near Victoria station London. B Company Royal Green Jackets cadet unit were a real tight crew. We were always competing with them. We always use to go away on weekend camps, at the regular soldier HQs. And we were always impressed when we were lining up for breakfast in the dining hall /mess of those camps , and out the window, we could see the regulars marching back to camp from an all night exercise. What great memories. British Soldiers are ALWAYs on point, I've nothing but admiration for our Hero's.
First in…last out….the best…
The hills are brutal if YOU DONT KNOW WHERE YOURE GOING. I would like to think I was a dying breed because I had some of those staff on my P coy winter 1990. Went to 2 Para in Jan 1991. We went to sennybridge, we were going to drop in on Saddam but it never happened. Great memories and very proud to have served in one of the greatest platoons known to earth..
Some legendary faces amongst those DS! I saw the hand bumpers the lads were polishing the floors with and remembered the beasting I got in nick have to bumper the ceiling with one! Never a dull time!
yeah i done 11 months in MCTC Colchester but the hardest was the 3 months in unit detention awaiting my court martial in Catterick.
a couple of comments about how its easier now than back in the day, I Don't know about that, but the job 16th air assault brigade did recently in Afghan and Iraq, these young kid's are outstanding
Do a little rudimentary research and you'll find that Graham Carter (PTI, Cpl) and Colin Connor (OC P Coy) both excelled in the Falklands campaign.
Graham Carter was the youngest to serve in the Falklands or one of them as I recall, little fella, fit as fuck, came on our adventure training with us in Scotland
When I was in the Canadian Military back in late 1979. I remember these British soldiers at our training base in Alberta. Man, some of the stories they told about their tours in Northern Ireland were insane
All the boatmen who have invaded Northern Ireland must be wondering what all the fuss is? Because they're taking over without a fight.
1980 6 weeks at camp wainwright or om the training area on the purple River 3para 3ad battalion the parachute regiment I was there
My mate was in this intake he's in the front middle of the photo no 23.
He failed p-company 6 times passed on the 7th attempt, this was his 1st. Ended up a wo2 Apache pilot
I thought you could only have 2 tries at passing ?
I did the course shortly after this one. Sgt Mathews RA was my DS. I bounced off the cargo net on the trynasium "get back and do it again you ponse".Haha. I recognised so many faces on this vid it takes me right back. As some were from my unit and i would get to know them when I arrived at the brigade.. The training area. Browning barracks. The DS. Best brigade 5 AB was. The maroon machine. Hardest but best thing i ever did. Not for the faint hearted. Once you had that beret and those wings. There was a sense of satisfaction you were standing with like minded people. People talk about being airborne. In my mind there is only one airborne and thats the British airborne because unless youve done P Coy well...anyone can jump out of an aeroplane not everyone can pass that course
RA…??? Fucking ‘HAT’…!!!
Correction: Sgt Matthews RHA (P Troop) an old mucker of mine. It was a nice surprise to see him in this documentary.
@@FHIPrincePeter - how old is he now and is he a fit old bastard or a broken old bastard? 😁
After training in Depot Para in Aldershot my platoon was posted to to the regular Battalions. I was sent on a PTIs course and then on to the Depot Gym as a PTI for 4years, Major Barry Andrews.Then joined a regular parachute unit ,and remained Para for 45 years , promoted to major prior to leaving ,eventually getting a retired officers post
Well done Sir! 🙏
45 years in the Paras. Wow! Awesome 👏
45 years!!! Oman through to Afghan? 👀
Still at it
Now and then
From the second you started back then, the depot Para staff worked hard at weeding-out those who were quitters. Back then the Olympic British bobsled team was guys from the Paras and the RAF…….. so we were paraded in the corridor and it was one recruits birthday. They told him they’d arranged a birthday surprise of some Bobsledding………they made him climb in a steel dustbin and kicked it down a flight of stairs!! 🤣 Happy days! Thunderflash was the ‘starting pistol’ for the P Coy Log Race 😊👍
Their was an Aitkin in 570 plt, (91-92) not you by any chance?
@@DB-ok8zf Small world, nah mate, started with 547 (Sgt Jed Willets 1para) but finished with 548
@@billyaitken7461 Sound mate, cheers 👍
@@DB-ok8zf Jed Willets got handed a 97 candidate platoon to weed down to 30-odd as quick as he could. “Weed out the weak to spend the time on those that will make it”.
Always said this course (P-company) and the all arms commando course is a test of individual through physical and mental.
I crossed the bridge both above and below and was not in the Para's . I was with the RAOC at the time and was doing an O type engagement , I then had to face that Ba***rd again when I was in the TAVR . Loved the comment "if your gonna fall, fall into the water" it was about 10ft deep if that ....fun times indeed.
My father in law served in 2 para in the 1956 Suez campaign.
I did 'P' Company in 86 and was told that the stretcher race would probably be the toughest thing I would ever do. It was, and the team I was part of won it. One of my proudest times.
Would you die for your Queenie or Lovely kingy Charles ?😂
Minimum wage sheep
The log race was what did it for me, fucking hated that. Easily the hardest part that I found, and I'd rather inject my eyeballs with bleach than do the tranasium again.
Bollox....try doing the RAF 5km of death, that sorts the men from the boys...lol
The Stretcher Race was the hardest event on P-Company. The Trainasium for me was the easiest. I was a roofer before I went to depot in Feb of 94 and I was hanging off scaffolding all day with that that old job.
Brings back great memories (593) Plt I passed out with went (3 Para)
Yes karl the stretcher race was brutal thats why its the last event after a hard week i still passed though ,i never thought the back end of a 4 tonner would look so beutiful 😆
I completed "P" Company back in 1968 (327 Platoon) when we were living in Maida Bks before moving to the new billets when it opened, we then completed parachute training at RAF Abingdon before passing out and joining 2 Para in Hong Kong...................a superb Regiment with a special band of brothers.
Was in 531 platoon 1988 best time looking back. They were hard but fair 👍
Great stuff Chris, I used to love this stuff when I was a nipper, along with the Orbis magazine 'The Elite' and anything on the telly about the iranian Embassy attack. I even joined army cadets and was all set for a life in the Special Forces. But then I took acid and ended up at art school. Thanks for uploading, I still love this stuff and really enjoyed that. Hope you're well, my friend.
Nice one brother! 'I took acid and ended up in art school' - that made me smile. Seriously, other than the balloon jump and we sailed to Barbados once, you didn't miss much - in fact most of it was quite boring - not to mention that most veterans seem to carry massive baggage :)
@@ChrisThrall Yes, as you've said before, it was quite a shock to me when we first spoke and I asked you about PSTD and you said it's the damage that people have BEFORE they enter the forces that's of more significance. Anyway, Take care, Chris.
I first watched this in late '90 and joined the Reg in 94. The CSM was my first RSM. Spanner Spence (who threatened to bin the kid for sitting down in the hills) was in 2 PARA, and I later bumped into Steve Morris (who says you do not have what we require) in Catterick when he was CSM P Company. Brilliant times and brilliant soldiers.
My depot platoon Sgt was in the 1982 series The Paras. What a guy he was! Fecking hardcore comes to mind, but he was a fair guy. Luckily, I followed in their footsteps and completed 28 years, mainly in 2 PARA (a stint in 3 PARA), 4 PARA, and 129 jumps. Luckily, I walked away from them all.
I did P Coy in 1968 the log race and steeple chase plus the South Downs March. I remember running down the hill there were bodies all over the place as we rounded the bend there was a pub with some 9ld guys taking the piss out of us.
Takes me back to Depot in 1985. Kev D was a Cpl PTI, great motivator and Spanner was a Cpl in my platoon. Phil H the medic, Trogg taking the pictures. Depot cookhouse, what a hole, it takes me back to queuing up the stairs to get in for scoff and having 5 minutes to get it down your neck, the pissing rain in Sennybridge, definitely takes me back. Horrible at the time but those 6 months were great times. Memories that last a lifetime.
2 Weetabix per man and a ladle of see through powdered milk 😂 also we had bumpers and not an electric floor polisher and we had putees and dms boots.
Seeing the bumper again after so long made me laugh, then I remember getting billed for a blanket because there was a square cut from the corner 🤣
A REAL P COY!!! did mine in 1988! Pass 1st time actually enjoyed it! 🤪
What platoon did you join up with?
Jesus I remember having to do bed blocks and hospital corners in basic…wouldn’t have missed it though, happy days even when cold, wet, tired and hungry. But, being a ‘hat’ I never had to endure P Coy, it would have broken me
Loved this documentary! I was in the RAF, as an aircraft engineer at the time. Was lucky enough to meet some Paras, Marines and SAS during my time. Great lads - even though they didn't like us very much! ha. Did my sports parachute course at Weston-on-the-green in '98 and managed 14 jumps in 2 weeks. One of the guys on the course, but kept separate, was Lee Clegg. Great bloke.
That's the guy who shot an unarmed young girl and her friend dead then feigned injury and lied that they'd tried to kill himself and the rest of his patrol.
Karen Reilly didn't deserve to be killed barely a child with her whole life in front of her.
Her parents were broken hearted and their lives destroyed.
Lee clegg , i seen the astra car in west belfast ruc station .it was like a cheese grater .
Same here RAF did the weston course ‘92 I think. After the service I got to tandem with the Red Devils for charity. The guy I jumped with was a pathfinder para, we got on famously, just before our jump I told him I was ex-RAF and on our descent he put us into a mad spin scared the bollocks off me. Good lad hope he’s doing well.
No pain no gain! It’s all in the mind ! Believe, focus, achieve!!!!!
Pee pee
I still bet it hurt like hell.
Bullshit. It’s not if you are fecked
Went through Depot with 373 Pln. in1971.Training staff were tough but fair. Had a great couple of sgt's like Roger Jenner & Jimmy Kerr. Great cpls & Pln commander. Went to B coy 2 Para transferred to Sp coy Mortar Pln. Served with guys who are still my brothers after all these years. A privilage to have soldiered with them.
49:30 "open the door and let the wind rush in" ;) brilliant
One thing it's one hell of lot easier now than it was back in the 80s 90s the staff used violence for a start 😆
Never violence, 'physical encouragement'
The feeling after! Was outstanding brill 😁
I love programs like this, doesn't matter which branch of the military. There is a vid from Mike Thwaite from 2022 that covers P Company. Looks like there are some changes to the training.
I remember Sgt Morris when he was a corporal in retraining platoon I broke my leg on the trainasium in 1988 with 539 platoon
You aren't related to 'Boris' by any chance?
Remember watching this when i was 18. Made me think what i was up against when considering joining the Paras
I completed p company in the 70's but failed. I did it in my last term of junior leaders and we did the pre para at Bovington on top of our normal RAC training. We then went to Aldershot for the two weeks of the test. Tge final test was pen Y Fan in Wales followed by the stretcher race. I did well in the stretcher race but clapped out on the mountain. Also I hesitated on the bridge jump, I think that was what failed me. It certainly made me fit though. I used to regularly come first in Squadron runs in my regiment.
I did the P Course for National Service men in 1956. There were no three chances, no advice and quick RTU. Who wanted NS men in the Paras? I made it but why I did it I still wonder.
Thanks for posting , Chris. Remember Heartbreak & Skirmish hills....& the log all too well !!
@Kruger - And Hungry Hill.
@Kruger - I remember the hills for doing my ankles in !! Oh yes those other 4 , esp Long ( torture ) Valley with injuries , I think I numbed my brain & body just to keep going.
No 12 Cpl RE actually passed and eventually became the SSM of 9 Para, RE. I was actually a junior leader the same time as him back in 1983. I passed P company back in 1985 when the trainasium was still in the woods built around the trees!!
I did all arms P company in 87. The stretcher race in isolation would not be so bad - but as the last test with my feet in rag order it was tough - made more difficult as a result of two of my team unable to keep up in the first 400 metres and they weren’t even on the stretcher. Staying in the game to overcome the brutal starting pace is essential. Afterwards you get into a rhythm and it is just psychological. Everyone is on their last legs, you have to stay focused and refuse to give in. The Trinasium was fun for me as I am part simian. Other than being at the front I have no recall of the Log race. However - I have suffered with crepitus in my shoulders ever since that stretcher race, Shoulders are not designed to have a scaffolding pole bouncing on them, the idea is everyone stays in step to avoid bounce……pfff.
Did it in 66 , no change then!!!!
Look at those FALs! One of the best rifles I’ve used! Cheers Lads! Semper Fi🤙🏻🍻🏴🇺🇸
They are SLRs not FALS. Single shot only.
@@Aindriuh They might be FALs from 82, decommissioned and used as weighted weapons. The prominent cocking handle was a terror if you doing it the wrong way round on an event
@@nellyprice The British Army never used FALs.
@@Aindriuh I know. They captured them. Look at cocking handles on the rifles they're carrying, not SLRs.
@@Aindriuh I suppose the clue is in the name, SLR, Self Loading Rifle, was a semi-automatic rifle. We used them in the RAF 1976-83.
The best of the best the Parachute Regiment true soldiers.I see the training they go through and it reminds me I’m a old man they are super fit determined young men a credit to the armed forces.I don’t know how they do it the body is pushed beyond breaking point they are probably the best trained soldiers in the world.I am a brown noser when it comes to the Paras the commandos and the SAS.They where my heroes as a kid a army cadet they where Gods to us us kids came from a deprived background we had nothing they where everything we wanted to be.I’ve spent my life regretting not being a soldier for those that make the grade be proud you are what protects society from the worlds political nutters.
Come on Just because they jump out of planes
Doesn't make them any better than other units
We didn't jump out of planes but we had a great
Free fall team it was popular in our lot.
Most infantry units in the British army were good at their job .
@@12dougreed My dad grandad where South Lancashire regiment very committed soldiers.I agree with you all of the regiments in the British army are highly trained good soldiers.I think anyone who gets through Para selection deserves respect.I didn’t say they are better than anyone else I just think that selection for the Royal Marines The Parachute regiment the SAS is extremely difficult.Whatever regiment you belong to be proud look out for your mates.
We had 7 Ruperts on ours. 5 were good blokes, 2 were arrogant little tossers, going around giving it the big I am with everyone. Guess which 2 failed.
Milling without the gum shield and face protection. My teeth are chipped to this day.
They train at Helles Barracks, back in 1990 I trained there as this was depot for Royal Signals quite a few of guys I trained with went back there to do all arms P Coy. Strange how things change over time.
I recognise number 8 he was a troop staffy in 64 pet sqn, 6 supply regt in the late 90s sound bloke...
I was in the military .Germany. Cyprus. 2 tours a Canada Norway. Belize.and a peace keeping tour a Yemen 1975 to 1981.
I live near Aldershot (Guildford) and remembering having a go on the scaffolding as part of a football course. It was great fun. Didn't get round lol
543 Rhine platoon P Company was a beast......takes me back ❤
Cheers Chris ..
Does anyone remember the TV series The Paras from the 80s? It has been uploaded onto RUclips.
Graham Carter PT Corps , top bloke , excellent climber had him on a few climbing courses down wales.
Pti with black tash looks like the one who was at litchfield in about 94 95ish when i did P.R.A.C. we did 1.5 days with the regular army then rest of the week we went over with the paras.... we got put in a red tracksuit and told that we wont march anywhere we run even to the scoffhouse... 1st day we sat down and watched a short promo video on vhs of the paras at work ..i remember a army dune buggy type thing going through the mud lol ...at one point in the short film prince charles came on in uniform and all the pti' slagged him right off saying he aint even earned the beret 🤷♂️ the guy with the tash ( if the same guy we had ) said ..right now you lot ..your here to see if you got wat it takes just to aply for the paras .. you do not mix with anyone else other than the lads here with you you eat together you sleep together and if any of you go to the nafi bar i dont want to see you mixing with lads from anywhere eles but those on P.R.A.C .... I loved it ... i remember the trinasium lol the intructer would say turn ...on the rope then shout spread eagle and youd fall backwards into the net ... there was also a jump where you jump from a higher board to a lower board ..the drop was only about a foot or 2 and the gap was only a few feet but as it was high up many of the lafs arseholes went lol ... think they called it an illusion jump ... the day before i was due to go back up to litchfield to start basic training i was arrested for a fight over a month before and i was remanded in a you offenders prison ... i had just come back from getting my train tickets from my travel warrant ...still remember the way i went london euston then on to birmingham newstreet then change to litchfield and we got picked up at the station ..we were all told before hand not to have any military style bags as the ira was still a threat .the corperal that picked us up was in civi clothes and a normal minibus....
I was convicted for the fight and got 90 days in young offenders i did 14 days of those on remand ... i showed the courts my paper work and the police when i got nicked that i was going up to better my life in the army but they couldnt care less ... shame really as i spent many times in and out of prison for stupid fighting ( never started fights just like the one that stopped me going back up to litchfield ).. the one goid thing that i got from P.R.A.C was fittness ... i always trained ... my lodger and best mate went on to the war in bosnia as a royal engineer ... if i remember rightly after p.r.a.c on leaving before comming back for basic training they told us theres a good chance after the 26 weeks training that we would be posted out to a place called Zaire in africa as something was bubling up over there.... i went through life gutted my opertunity was taken away on the sunday the day before i was due to leave again .. i had pals who were royal marines and in other infantry regiments ... i was alwas envious all the way up until i decided to head over to france and join the french foreign legion 11 years ago and the rest they say is history 😁 bloody hell reading this back i could probably write a book 🤣 prob need to learn how to spell 1st and as for my gramma ..well its worse than a 6 year olds 🙈 thanks for uploading this video it bought back some fun memories of my week up at the litchfield barracks 💪😎
Para reg. airborne all the way!✊🏻
Para reg 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Excellent programme.
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#PCompany
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I did the TA course in the late 80's and bloody hell was it tough , we had about 10% or less pass, which included many ex regular hats that failed the course
I have tremendous respect for those men who can pass ‘P’ company and go on to have a carrier in the ‘PARAS’, it is brutal and I know some veteran Paras that say the P company testing was the hardest thing they ever did outside of combat, and considering that some of these friends went Down South and fought like hell to return the islands to their rightful inhabitants I can easily understand what they mean, but one thing bugs me about this video is the assumption that an injury can always be found by a medic if there is one to be found, but not all injuries are detectable by a physical examination, sometimes it takes x-rays, scans, ultrasound and other procedures, so unless the medic has multi-function vision and hands it is a bit unjust to bin a person under testing, do candidates get sent to a specialist doctor or just a doctor who can request a deeper examination?, perhaps someone could clarify this small point for me. Thanks 😀👍🇬🇧🏴🇺🇦
As the Major said, there will always be the suspicion that the candidate is just wanting to quit and because of time constraints and limited medical resources this means that some unlucky fellas are going to be accused of feigning injury when they really are damaged. It is brutal and unfair but it is what it is.
@@firstaddz8100 Fair comment, thanks.
Malvinas ❤❤❤❤❤
Argentina 🇦🇷
having been told to stand on my head while chatting with the CO at the grand age of 25 around 1995, decided this brain washing wasnt my cup of tea lol... but Kudos to the guys who completed the course.
My brother passed p company, he said you got breasted for being the slowest or the fastest or even if you were in the middle, basically you could do no good.
Really enjoyed this Nice one Chris
There’s something mythical and beautiful about the British SLR
I agree! I even bought one! Perks of living in America. ;)
Far better than the crap that replaced it. One round and targets fall. Not like 5.56mm.
I wonder if there are still any knocking around in the British army?
@@richardmason6263 No. Most were scrapped and the remainder were sold off.
Oh yes, one round and the sound of a falling plate 🤗
No wonder the Argis got beat . If these guys were coming to up to my dug in . My hands would be straight up in the air saying I didn’t want to fight in the first place . I surrender chaps . 😂
Watching this and being up trees a s a youngling and Dad sending me up roofs on building projects I could have easily done this. Its all in the mindset. Once you have no fear anything is possible. Maybe its the reason I have a face like A clumsy Bee keeper?
About half passed the course I did in 2002; up from a third from the ‘old school’ days I think.
I passed in 2002 also. 120 started. 60 ish passed.
@@RobertGeez Same for the course I was on, could have been on the same one. Think we had 5 stand up fails, which, in comparison to this video, seems quite low.
I did pcoy in 2002 and it was hard but stuck with it and got through pre para beat up followed by pcoy very tough but worth it in the end
Did all arms in 2002 too. It was hard, but think this old school PCompany was harder.
@@eddie4324 its looks harder on here with breacon phase
@@herrickmaster77 Yep looks nails. Plus the 10 miler had to be completed in 1 hour 45. Think we had 5 minutes more!
@@eddie4324 yeah its right that was an hour 45 theres an old programme from the 80s called the paras and they did it in 1hr 45 on that
@@herrickmaster77 That was a brilliant program. One of the DS Corporals was Al Slater, he joined the SAS and was killed by the IRA in county Fermanagh not long after getting Badged. You can still find it on here.
3:10 No12, Al from the RE. A great lad. Leeds lad if I remember correctly. I wonder what he's up to now if he's not commissioned.
Doubt he got commissioned if he's from Leeds.
@@firstaddz8100 cheeky fuck 😁
"All you are lacking at this time, is a handbag" lol
Should be reported for transphobia and gender bullying 😂
@@j2msu341 hehe!
I watched this as a civvy, then remembered it all over again when doing my all arms commando.
Hark at the Ruperts at 09:36,who do you think we'll lose today?
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Them
It's ironic given that they'd both failed a previous P Coy 🤷🏻♂️
Check canopy. Thank fuck for that. Classic
OMG, this is the closest tomy time in depot Para Aldershot 1989 553 platoon......weird seeing those old buildings again. Memories and emotions all stirred up again....7.5 years in 2 Para in the end !
AB' ALL THE WAY! from a EX'PARA!! 😊
That's training. I broke my leg with the RA and the sergeant said. If you can't walk get in the wagon. guess
What I did
RHA. There is a difference.
Respect 🙏
Super video that was incredibly tough
Thanks Chris I’m stuck into the old ML Royal Marine videos absolutely class they were some stuff back then I’m sure is still brutally tough now but instructors leading the way climbing with no ropes in the dark 😯
The best regiments in the world yes the Paras my dad was one
Talk about leading from the front, the Major in charge of P Company was the epitome of the phrase!
Major Colin Connor. An awesome leader.
@@firstaddz8100 Indeed he is.
I considered P Coy but Meiktila battery was the eventual shout
Browning barracks I remember it well
Corporal Slater was my training NCO who I believed was killed in NI , in an IRA ambush when he joined the SAS.
"The coveted red beret."
ITS MAROON.
Proper soldiers,proper’tasches
Proper DS,rubbing hands whilst giving a brief
what does DS stand for?
I know he's a major.
@@firstaddz8100 Directing Staff 👍
@@DigitalMan6627 Thanks, Sean👍
I remember Woody Woodruf that you catch a glimpse of in this documentary. The grey men seems to be a recurring thing with him. Happy days
This looks f*****g tough!
There's a lot of splendid moustache work going on there