AIRBORNE! 9 Para Sqn RE

support troop 9, AIRBORNE! dan, roon, robbo.. fitzy 51 no.1 at the door

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[mellord85]

lol, get a grip.. we have just come back from herrick 8, and most of our lads were fighting alongside the regt the whole tour, AND doin the engineers jobs.. the only reason your course is "longer" is because you do it as part of basic training.. the same tests are they not?

[mellord85]

nice one.. how long ago?

[RougeTraveller]

@airbornedutch

paratrooper

Pronunciation:/ˈparətruːpə/

noun - a member of a paratroop regiment or airborne unit.

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[RougeTraveller]

@airbornebutch Definition of a PARA: para2

n Informal

1. (Military)

a. a soldier in an airborne unit

b. an airborne unit

2. (Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) a paragraph

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003

[sam350999]

@airbornebutch They're not Para's but they are still para trained. It's the same story with Army Commandos, they're not bootnecks but they are still part of commando forces.

[airbornebutch]

@macky111222 respect is not an issue. The parachute regiment will always need its attachments when on ops. Its the fact that these attachments are trying to identify themselves with something they are not. If they actually wanted to or want to be PARAS then they must go through PARA reg depot.

[airbornebutch]

@airbornebutch once they have finshed depot PARA, have completed their jumps course and are then serving in either 1,2 or 3 PARA can they call themselves PARA's. The tests are obviously the same but its the path that takes you to P coy that is the difference. A simple answer to this argument is to look at the bottom of a parachute regiment soldiers and engineers medals, one will say PARA and funnily enough one will say engineer.

[airbornebutch]

@S1distic I think you should do your research shit lips. An engineer goes to Gibraltar barracks to become an engineer and is trained by god knows what creatures from the engineers, a para reg joe is trained by a para reg instructor throughout the whole of his training, not contaminated by other corps or brigades. At week 20 they attempt p coy, 20 weeks from being a civvy to passing p coy, and even once theyve done that they are still not entitled to call themselves paras.

[airbornebutch]

@S1disticI think you should do your research shit lips. An engineer goes to Gibraltar barracks to become an engineer and is trained by god knows what creatures from the engineers, a para reg joe is trained by a para reg instructor throughout the whole of his training, not contaminated by other corps or brigades. At week 20 they attempt p coy, 20 weeks from being a civvy to passing p coy, and even once theyve done that they are still not entitled to call themselves paras.

[macky111222]

@airbornebutch i think your right but still they deserve respect no?