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ok lads thought id post this as its whats you WILL do.but just imagine differnt scenario for training i.e pissing it down at brize near oxford not glamourous desert in godstoilet far eastern area.... here we go .....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJBIyIdF ... r_embedded lookand behold lads, the shape of that mass drop and hercy bird will stick with you fooooorever ;o) espesh when you do it.
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Now when I was lad this is what it was like,

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 0447919775


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god i hope i eventually get to that stage! :o
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paraprep1 wrote:god i hope i eventually get to that stage! :o
Yeah, No shit, me too. With a lot of hard work we will ;)
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il see if i can find the vid of us ( 3para) jumpin into ranville normandy out of hercs and dakotas the other day for the 65th anniversary of d-day landings
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Post by Wholley »

I saw you lot in your C-130's and C-47's,although I was a little to the west,so I didn't see you exit.
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was awsome just as shame that maybe on the 70th anniversary many of the old and the brave may be lost it get less and less every year so the storys you get while you are there will start to fade away.
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Post by Tab »

I have been trying to get the old boys stories from our Branch of the PRA, Some i have posted on the British Small Wars site and the other have gone to Para Musuem at Duxford
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