The Paras: Men of War | The Final Test: A 1,000ft Solo Parachute Jump | ITV
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- Опубликовано: 27 янв 2019
- While Kojo passes the Paras training course winning the prize for best endeavour, he faces one final hurdle before becoming a fully-fledged paratrooper - his first parachute jump from a Hercules plane. Catch up now on the ITV Hub: bit.ly/2HzN1Ei
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That one step changed that man forever.
It wasn’t the first jump that scared me. It was the second and the third etc as I knew what was coming.
what was it like?
What is combat like and is it worth it compared to other roles
And ..Ready for anything
@Isaac’s main it's shit and fear and relief you pulled through..simple
Thafs a static line jump...25 grand free fall in full kit on oxygen at night..then hit the ground and be combat effective..that's the training..jumping out of plane is just a way of getting from A to B quickly..once on the ground your a boots on the ground combat soldier..fucking parachute is literally 1% of what you do
Many years ago I did a parachute jump for cancer uk from a plane out of biggin hill. Scared the shit out of me but braved it for the cause. Never did another one ! Main thing is an old boy in his seventies then was doing a jump for another charity with his grandson. When the instructor asked him had he had done anything like this before he said he had at Arnhem where he was wounded. Respect to any airborne men reading this. Once was enough for me
Balloon jump at Weston on the Green 1976. Followed by aircraft jump. First time I’d ever flown. Happy days,great bunch of friends.
Ooh the drop when your breakfast hits your throat . 200ft before deploy at 800 feet .
Same as me in 76, what month where you there. I think i was there in September.
Balloon jumps ! Oh they were fun !
@@jonathanpipe8249 - the pints at the Spotlight 🤣
Yes
my son has a year at harrogate then off to paras very proud mum
Hoo-ah for him!! The world could really use more of him👍👍
wtf is hoo-ah
@@robloxiscancer3343 US army chant basically, I think this person is mistaken with the country and type of unit.
@@nathandutton5338 it’s hoo rah
Thank you for your Service
Good lad. It surprising how quickly they hit into the ground. That's no gentle landing.
They are all good lads... However, he should have been pulling on his risers to side slip the chute to create a bit of lateral movement. Landing straight down prevents the paratrooper from performing a decent PLF and can lead to injury...
Proud of you kojo. Hoping to join soon 🇬🇭
Respect ❤
Hope he makes the most of it.
The vast majority of applicants are, like myself, rejected from ever serving for medical reasons they can't ever change or fix. I was rejected for a condition I was born with.
I'll never be given a chance to achieve anything like this. I like to remind servicemen how they should appreciate how lucky they are to have the experiences that most are unfairly denied.
Well done 👍
It was my first time in an aeroplane on my first jump, id never flew before.
There were 2 guys on my jumps course who had never flown before. Their claim to fame was 8 take offs in an aircraft but never landed in one.
@@markaluge brill
@@markaluge I got my American jump wings California 1989 jumped out a C141 star lifter 5 times with full kit, the Americans couldn't believe we had so much kit strapped to us. Amazing days, great memories.
well done a great result
The second worst thing about an aircraft jump is when is when your hooked up and waiting for the green light, if for some reason, the pilot over shoots the DZ you could be standing for another 10 minutes and there’s always someone puking his guts up, you can’t wait to get out of that door as your main chute, reserve, container and gat become weightless then comes the first worst thing, the landing, especially at night.
How does jumping at night work do you have night vision goggles on or something?
@@_unfilteredno goggles just the MK 1 eyeball your vision is ok until the final 100 feet then everything goes black just concentrate on keeping your feet together and try to gauge when your container hits the ground sometimes you can hear or feel it
@@traceynorcross5666- waiting for the thud of the Bergen dangling and swinging was a sure sign you are creaming in 🤣
@@_unfiltered the real answer to that question is that your kit or equipment plays an important role during a night jump. Simply you hear it hit the ground and you feel the tension release, you've already perhaps calculated on some DZs that you have fallen below the tree-line, under second later you know you're going to ARRIVE. So you squeeze you cheeks and knees and as the actress said to the bishop, you take it as it comes 😊😊
@@garrywynne1218 good days or should I say nights Gary eh?
Anyone, including your grandmother can jump out of an aircraft. Very few can do the Paratrooping after!
I miss the rough and rocky C130 jumps. We eventually went completely to C17.
C-130, C-141, Caribou, Huey, Blackhawk. Miss it all
Fair play mate.
You are no longer "a hat"! Something to be proud of, from a former hat! lol
Becoming Airborne qual'd still makes an rlc driver an rlc driver
Jeez, they have it easy now. 1st Jump was clean fatigue from the balloon at RAF Hullavington, (try it kids - the front somersault is absolutely the best exit to try once you have done a few jumps). Second was sim 4's clean fatigue at RAF Weston on the Green working up to the 8th which was sim 8's at night with a (fake) container at RAF Weston on the Green. The scariest jump was the 9th when you went up in the balloon with three veterans back at your unit... and you were number one!
That landing was a little rough. No PLF . Landed like a sack of potatoes.
Yep Ballon jump was the worst, you have confidence in the shute for the plane jump
03:03 like the proverbal sack of shite.....Well done lads. I would have the stones to do P Company. Pass or Fail I admire those who put themselves through it.
Would "not" have the stones.... I mean!
11b, stay on the ground, stick to the mission.
This is the most dramatic airborne video I’ve seen
is the test to see if you don't hesitate to jump out the aircraft?
The test is to complete a parachute jump. If you don't, You fail.
I remember there’s two tries at least from historical perspective of the original airborne units deployed for WW2, they can’t force you to jump though.
Men of courage.
Well done Kojo - BTW, lots of White guys jumped too.
Yeah, but that's "normal".
Watch any extreme sports channel. 😏
I would have considered joining the armed forces when I watched 9/11 unfold on TV, but I came to my senses after a few minutes.
Luckily 🙏🏽
Great skill set to have and we should continue with it, but will it ever get used again
Do they train to stop dinghies,
That landing wasnt great but you got up from it
Night jump is toughest
well done :) he is right, it is rather unnatural. well done :)
Did the narrator say a year of training?
Yes. He was only 18, so he most likely did young recruit foundation training in Hrrowgate, followed by Pre Para and then full para infantry training, followed by P Company, followed by parachute training at Brize Norton...
Did BRICK TOP narrate this ?
Who esle aquired their apex tie.
Got to work on your PLF bro.
Absolutely... However, what he should have been doing is hanging on his risers to side slip the chute to give him some lateral speed. Was he not trained to do this?... More likely he was stressed out by the impending landing and forgot. A bit worrying seeings as they do allot of drill work hanging in a harness in a hanger before jumping. It was his first jump. Hopefully he will get a bollocking for risking injury by doing a straight down landing...
@@digdougedy I was under the impression that the training he received maybe differed than that of our training in the US. I was friends with airborne soldiers from other countries while deployed to Iraq as part of the UN forces but we rarely talked about certain training techniques.
@@dboogeman2002 Having served in 2 REP , French Foreign Legion from 1989, I can say that the training for jumping is, and has to be, very similar to all airborne regiments around the world. However, when it comes to the process of getting into an airborne regiment, the British Para has to do a very much harder selection that I did in Corsica. The French do things differently to the British. Not that it isn't hard, but there id no "P Company" in the Legion.
Paras did that on D-Day and then ran into gunfire.
So did the Germans on Create.
Stop complaining about BLM, and oppression and being a minority. Stand tall on your OWN two feet and do what this teenager has done for HIS country.
a thousand feet is ok we used to jump eight hundred feet and possibly six hundred feet the strange thing the higher you are the safer you are as you have more time to react to anything. I have never been to brize norton as I did my jumps at abingdon out of the ballon, andover, argosy and then buffalo the c130. Keep up the good work mucker you have done it good man woa ho mahomet
Old school mate eh?
😊note the person of colour gets the starring role!
A sorry state for the military indeed
Note to yourself if you have watched the full three episodes. It focuses on white para troppers, too, and the last episode it focuses on three qualified white paratroopers along with Kojo as he got backtropped from his squad. Allowed the people who watched it that kojo pasted the course
Troppers , and backtropped , are you a bootneck.
PatriotWalt at least kojo had the stones to do it.
It looks reelly easy fam.
Kak landing .. potato sack 😁.
Hahaha dude .. this is easy for an airborne warrior .. screw the nut .. 😂😂😂
Why focus on the black guy FFS
If you watched the full series, it focuses on lots of white para tropper men. Kojo got backtropped from his squadron, hence why the camera crew went back to let the audience know he passed the course
Why does it matter?
Damn...a whole year of training just to make a static line jump. I would like to see the entire process. I went to jump school in '78 it s three weeks long. ground week, tower week, and jump week...5 jumps.
In the U.K. you earn your place to get to airborne school . It’s not an elective on signing a contract. Only those who have completed an” arduous selection process” are allowed to train. No criticism. Just a different system 🤷🏻
Thanks for the info!@@garrywynne1218
You have to pass "P" Company before you can earn the right to jump school.
Back in the eighties when I did it we had 3 balloon jumps from 800 feet then 4 C130 jumps (again from 800 feet). Your "tower week" sounds like fun....
US Scott yes? Had a few of your guys with us at UK PTS, climbed with a few of them too. Just an observation Gentlemen but P Company is one way of entering PTS and parachute training but not the only way. What I will say about depot Para and P Company is that it is in my opinion the best preparation course for Parachuting, I'm sure many would agree with that...
@@jackaubrey8614 you say the 80s mate which year exactly?