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Originally Posted by exbleep

Fedoras? Homburgs? Bowlers? I bet it's something like that and not highly trained support staff.

You're VERY Warm!

Another clue.........its mentioned in my avatar!

Originally Posted by twothreeuptwothreedown

Spoken with knowledge gained from experience!

Well done Oyibo.......pity these snot gobbling cadets & civvy untermenschen, that post so much verbal puke one here, don't appreciate that!

Don't you just love the Marron Berry & Paracute regiment? Jeez!!!!!!
FAIL!!!!!!!

By the end of the night we'll be told we're teenage cadets! Oh well - we can't speak with any authority on what happens nowadays, but at least the guys in the Reg nowadays continue in the best tradition.

Originally Posted by PBUH

Either personal experience or he read Eddy Nugent. I know which option I took.

Does it matter if Lt Col Jones did P Coy? He hardly disgraced them. Suspect he did though, can't see a Parachute Regiment Bn tolerating a CO that hadn't.

Thouroughly enjoyed the Eddy Nugent book[s]. So personal experience and reading..

Edited to pluralise book, as I enjoyed the first so much I bought the second.

Originally Posted by baboon6

He had previously served with 3 PARA for a couple of years in the mid/late '60s, as a Capt, commanding the Mortar Platoon (yikes!). I would assume he must have done P Coy to be able to be attached to a parachute battalion for that long. The books I got this information from, Goose Green and The Last Eleven?, both by Mark Adkin, don't specifically mention it though. But Adkin does mention several other officers in 2 PARA who weren't originally Para Reg:

Maj Hugh Jenner, OC Support Coy, who came from the Cheshires after passing P Coy at age 36
Maj Phil Neame, OC D Coy, originally from the RAF Regt

He doesn't mention that Maj Chris Keeble, the 2IC, was originally commissioned into the Leicesters in 1963 and transferred to Para Reg in 1971.

Tootal, Farrar the Para, and Jackson, all well known and respected Para Reg officers who originally came from "other" Regiments.
Direct Entry into Para Reg didn't occur until the 1950's for enlisted men and the 60's for Officers.

To this day it is still very common for officers from other Regiments to serve a tour as a Para Reg officer. More often than not they re-badge to Para Reg for the duration. I had numerous officers from different backgrounds, Bootneck, Guards, Cheshire and even an RLC officer. All of them had cracked P-Coy in order to take thier place in Bn.
I'm certain it would of been no different in H.Jones's day as even a 40 year old Brigadier (taking post of the old 5AB) had been known to pass it.

A 40 odd year old SAfrican Padre did PCoy too.

I wonder how the padre got on in Milling?
Fuck being sized off against him, you don't want to be known as the man who filled in/got filled in by the man of the cloth

Originally Posted by twothreeuptwothreedown

Oi Knob Cheese...........

Guess what those non Para trained are known as...................I'll give you a clue

Its not Paracute, Marron or Berry!

Oi Knob Cheese, i love that,.

how old are you? Your not part of Malta Lines in Aldershot are you? I have looked at your Avatar and i still cannot find the answer, but i'm up for a guess - is it the "2 cunts"?

Knob Cheese ha ha ha ha

Reading back i didn't say he was a Walt see Ruckmanwoc post.