Video: For your Savage Motivation!
Following on from these posts, let’s keep the momentum going:
‘Training the Right Way, and without the Intimidation Factor.’
‘Memes of Bravado and Blades of Grass Quotes.’
‘Jack Donovan: All Training is Sacrifice.’
Here are some videos from YouTube of The Parachute Regiment (it’s a British Army unit), which is the finest airborne / light infantry unit in the world. Videos are a random mix of recruit training, battalion training, and operations.
FYI: The Parachute Regiment, which is an elite unit and is termed SOF in US Military parlance, has 3 active duty battalions. 1 PARA serves in the SFSG under UK Special Forces Group, 2 and 3 PARA serve in 16 Air Assault Brigade as the UK’s quick reaction force. Personnel rotate through 1 PARA. In my time in the British Army, I served in both 1 and 2 PARA.
The Parachute Regiment is selected via ‘Pre-Parachute Selection’ or ‘P’ Company (short for Pegasus Company). All UK airborne forces have to do some sort of selection to attend parachute training, which is one of either P Company, Commando course, or UKSF selection. Non-Parachute Regiment volunteers who want to go to parachute school and serve in 16 Air Assault Brigade attend ‘All Arms P Company,’ which is a standalone selection course. Volunteers for The Parachute Regiment can join directly and attend recruit training, which includes P Company as part of the process (they get to that part after 20 weeks of basic training), or transfer in and attend the All Arms course.
https://youtu.be/xLTusvHi564
https://youtu.be/KDsl72yjjSs
The idea of the MVT Rifleman Challenge was conceived to provide a skills and PT based challenge, with a set of basic standards, that was in some tiny part approaching the crucible of a course such as Pre-Parachute Selection. It was in no way P Company, but the spirit was there, and it was more infantry-skill focused. But of course, it was hard and people didn’t want to do it! At least not in sufficient numbers.
I have to remind myself that people are generally weak, and that only a small portion have anything like a warrior mindset, or the strength of will to work hard at warrior skills.