Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paratrooper Michael Willetts died in 1971 protecting civilians from an IRA bomb On May 25, 1971, Sergeant Michael Willetts of the ...
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Will Paras lose the ability to jump? Ministry of Defence cuts could hit the Army's most elite unit
Penny-pinching defence chiefs are devising plans to slash the jumping capability of the legendary Parachute Regiment, it was feared last night. Just days after Downing Street sources suggested an ...
Hundred of elite paratroopers cannot use parachutes, the Government has admitted. The maroon beret regiment - whose “Utrinque Paratus” motto translates as “Ready for Anything” - have an illustrious ...
Military staff at an Army base were mistakenly put on alert over a “Lee Rigby-style” threat to behead a paratrooper. Security was tightened at the Colchester garrison, where Parachute Regiment ...
NASMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "In Britain they were known as The Parachute Regiment, but their German enemies christened them ...
The Parabats were first “blooded” in combat in 1966 during a counterinsurgency war in South West Africa (known nowadays as Namibia); indeed, these troops carried out the very first combat action of ...
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