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That lady? Now every bit as cool as 9 Squadron R.E.... And that lady has done something that many thought was absolutely physically impossible for any female.
Argus!
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British Army officer becomes first woman to pass brutal Para course ... on 10:15 - Feb 19 with 2353 views
British Army officer becomes first woman to pass brutal Para course ... on 10:31 - Feb 19 by BrynCartwright
Personally I'd have massive issues with this particular obstacle..
I seem to have acquired a hatred of heights in my old age.
Age plays a big difference! Two reasons, i.e. we all tend to think we're superman/immortal when we're younger and after the age of 30 males lose 1% of testosterone a year, every year after. And that does not exclude the additional loss of peak testosterone level before hitting 30 years of age anyhow.
Higher Testosterone ='s greater confidence, drive, and get up and go. Have you ever noticed many males start to get anxious about driving when they get older?... I know an (decades of experience) ex-HGV articulated lorry driver who is now anxious when driving a car and passes the buck onto his wife. He now refuses point blank to drive at night.
British Army officer becomes first woman to pass brutal Para course ... on 10:47 - Feb 19 by Lohengrin
You’re going to cop it if Pacemaker reads that!
A young man joined the Army and signed up with the paratroopers. He went though the standard training, completed the practice jumps from higher and higher structures, and finally went to take his first jump from an aeroplane. The next day, he called home to his father to tell him the news.
"So, did you jump?" the father asked.
"Well, let me tell you what happened. We got up in the plane, and the sergeant opened up the door and asked for volunteers. About a dozen men got up and just walked out of the plane!"
"Is that when you jumped?" asked the father.
"Um, not yet. Then the sergeant started to grab the other men one at a time and throw them out the door."
"Did you jump then?" asked the father.
"I'm getting to that. Every one else had jumped, and I was the last man left on the plane. I told the sergeant that I was too scared to jump. He told be to get off the plane or he'd kick my butt."
"So, did you jump?"
"Not then. He tried to push me out of the plane, but I grabbed onto the door and refused to go. Finally he called over the Jump Master. The Jump Master is this great big guy, about six-foot five, and 18 stone. He said to me, `Boy, are you gonna jump or not?' I said, `No, sir. I'm too scared.' So the Jump Master pulled down his zip and took his penis out. I swear, it was about ten inches long and as big around as a babies arm! He said, `Boy, either you jump out that door, or I'm sticking this little baby up your ring.'"
"So, did you jump?" asked the father.
"Well, a little, at first."
I want a mate like Flashberryjacks, who wears a Barnsley jersey with "Swans are my second team" on the back.
British Army officer becomes first woman to pass brutal Para course ... on 12:42 - Feb 19 by Neath_Jack
A young man joined the Army and signed up with the paratroopers. He went though the standard training, completed the practice jumps from higher and higher structures, and finally went to take his first jump from an aeroplane. The next day, he called home to his father to tell him the news.
"So, did you jump?" the father asked.
"Well, let me tell you what happened. We got up in the plane, and the sergeant opened up the door and asked for volunteers. About a dozen men got up and just walked out of the plane!"
"Is that when you jumped?" asked the father.
"Um, not yet. Then the sergeant started to grab the other men one at a time and throw them out the door."
"Did you jump then?" asked the father.
"I'm getting to that. Every one else had jumped, and I was the last man left on the plane. I told the sergeant that I was too scared to jump. He told be to get off the plane or he'd kick my butt."
"So, did you jump?"
"Not then. He tried to push me out of the plane, but I grabbed onto the door and refused to go. Finally he called over the Jump Master. The Jump Master is this great big guy, about six-foot five, and 18 stone. He said to me, `Boy, are you gonna jump or not?' I said, `No, sir. I'm too scared.' So the Jump Master pulled down his zip and took his penis out. I swear, it was about ten inches long and as big around as a babies arm! He said, `Boy, either you jump out that door, or I'm sticking this little baby up your ring.'"
"So, did you jump?" asked the father.
"Well, a little, at first."
An idea isn't responsible for those who believe in it.
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British Army officer becomes first woman to pass brutal Para course ... on 14:03 - Feb 19 with 2146 views
Marching 20 miles in full kit in 4hrs 10? Christ. Running that in that time in trainers would make many people justifiably proud.
Impressive.
Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back.
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British Army officer becomes first woman to pass brutal Para course ... on 15:29 - Feb 19 with 2063 views
Belgium has an absolutely fantastic junior para army-cadet course going!
15 year old kids (girls included) can get to experience a bygone Brize Norton training experience of jumping out of a balloon and dropping like a stone (no aircraft slipstream) for a few hundred feet until that parachutes finally opens.
Please note the "folly/naivety of youth" lack of fear and lack of sadistic Aldershot influence destined to 'psyche-out' and put the absolute fear of God into recruits/baby-para's about to face 'The Trainasium' and balloon jump.
Argus!
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British Army officer becomes first woman to pass brutal Para course ... on 16:21 - Feb 19 with 2013 views
British Army officer becomes first woman to pass brutal Para course ... on 16:29 - Feb 19 by Lohengrin
It’s all part of the ethos of fostering maximum aggression.
Then lads like that are put into the middle of a Republican riot in Londonderry and the hand-wringers wonder where all the corpses came from?
Yeah I imagine it would have been odd for her opponent who was in all likelihood considerably much taller and heavier than her to go all fists in on a smaller woman although no doubt she gave as good as she got.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
British Army officer becomes first woman to pass brutal Para course ... on 16:29 - Feb 19 by Lohengrin
It’s all part of the ethos of fostering maximum aggression.
Then lads like that are put into the middle of a Republican riot in Londonderry and the hand-wringers wonder where all the corpses came from?
I had a mate in the Paras who told me some eye watering and truly scary stories of his tours of NI. He came in very handy on nights out down Wind Street!
British Army officer becomes first woman to pass brutal Para course ... on 10:47 - Feb 19 by Lohengrin
You’re going to cop it if Pacemaker reads that!
Yes, I did bite initially on reading it, but my neighbour is an ex bootie so I have a raised tolerance level these days, oddly enough reading Neathies joke further down the page I had a weird coincidence out in NZ recently.
I had entered a cycle race around Lake Taupo and my bro in law who is ex 2 Para came down with me and decided to do a round of golf whilst I was out. He attends the local golf course to see if he can get a round and the pro points out a guy in the same situation looking for a partner for a round.
My bro in law thinks he recognises the guy and after a short chat identifies the guy is ex RAF and was based in the Shot and was his jump master who had launched him out of Hercs for years.
Although we were about 4 hrs from Auckland it turns out they had both retired from forces emigrated to NZ and lived about 30 mins from each other. Small world.
By the way fair play to Capt Wild a tremendous achievement.
Life is an adventure or nothing at all.
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British Army officer becomes first woman to pass brutal Para course ... on 21:48 - Feb 20 with 1592 views
British Army officer becomes first woman to pass brutal Para course ... on 15:35 - Feb 19 by Neath_Jack
You were in the paras? Well colour me surprised
Stand easy private, because the day I'd want to be taken seriously by you of all people, will be the day Darran has a skinhead haircut.
You should pay more attention to what goes on. As I said walk a mile in those shoes you know nothing about Mr expert and someone will take YOU seriously. Belittling the lowest rank in the British army is about your level.
You will never be and never would have been Joe. RFA.
British Army officer becomes first woman to pass brutal Para course ... on 22:12 - Feb 19 by Pacemaker
Yes, I did bite initially on reading it, but my neighbour is an ex bootie so I have a raised tolerance level these days, oddly enough reading Neathies joke further down the page I had a weird coincidence out in NZ recently.
I had entered a cycle race around Lake Taupo and my bro in law who is ex 2 Para came down with me and decided to do a round of golf whilst I was out. He attends the local golf course to see if he can get a round and the pro points out a guy in the same situation looking for a partner for a round.
My bro in law thinks he recognises the guy and after a short chat identifies the guy is ex RAF and was based in the Shot and was his jump master who had launched him out of Hercs for years.
Although we were about 4 hrs from Auckland it turns out they had both retired from forces emigrated to NZ and lived about 30 mins from each other. Small world.
By the way fair play to Capt Wild a tremendous achievement.
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