Wanted - British Parachute Regiment photos

[Travis1982]

If anyone knows a website or has any British Para Regt. photos can you please reply.

Thanks

[DeltaWhisky58]

For current pix, you could try the British military GW2 site on

http://www.operations.mod.uk/telic/index.htm

Or the Ministry of Defence (Army) site on

http://www.army.mod.uk

The second link may also give you direct links to the Parachute Regiment.

[Travis1982]

Thanx. I'll have a look

[kayaker]

DID you get any outstanding results? If so please spill the beans!

[mmackem]

http://www.operations.mod.uk/telic/images/land/id_check.jpg

A member of 663 Squadron, 3 Regiment, Army Air Corps, attached to 9 Regiment AAC, checks the ID of soldiers from The First Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, who form part of 16 Air Assault Brigade as part of his additional duties of camp security.

http://www.operations.mod.uk/telic/images/land/3para_trg1.jpg

Men of 3rd Bn The Parachute Regiment
during pre-deployment training

http://www.operations.mod.uk/telic/images/ops/3para_children.jpg

A soldier from 3 Para allows a fascinated Iraqi child to look through his rifle's optical sight

http://www.operations.mod.uk/telic/images/misc/2para.jpg

The 2nd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, deployed to southern Iraq in December 2003

[mmackem]

http://img7.exs.cx/img7/5525/451414362cc.jpg

Corporal Martin THORP, 29, from Frome in Somerset of B Company 2 PARA instructing recruits for the new Kabul Regiment on weapon handling. B Coy will be responsible for training recruits for six weeks.

http://img47.exs.cx/img47/2919/451422310pu.jpg

Paratroopers from 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment in training using their heavily armed weapons mounted Open topped Land Rovers. The Troops who are due to deploy to the Middle East were undergoing training at Friday Woods near their barracks in Colchester.

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Members of 2 PARA watch the football match between Kabul United and soldiers of the International Security Assitance Force. Up to 30,000 Afghans poured into Kabuls Olympic stadium to watch the game

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Members of 2 PARA preventing 'gatecrashers' entering Kabul's Olympic Stadium prior to the match between ISAF and Kabul United British troops are currently deployed in Afghanistan on Operation FINGAL

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2 Para set off on another patrol to area 7 in the SW of the city. Pte Matthew Walden kicks a ball around with the locals

http://img45.exs.cx/img45/6540/451411919el.jpg

Regimental Sergeant-Major (RSM) of 2 PARA

http://img45.exs.cx/img45/6412/451411941le.jpg

Members of D Company, 2 PARA set off from their location in Kabul for a patrol

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Private Nigel PHILLIPS, 24, from Denbeigh, N. Wales of D Coy 2 PARA seen here using the Iridium telecommunications system to make a welfare call home

[mmackem]

http://img133.exs.cx/img133/9717/451406781as.jpg

2001 Secretary of State for Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon visits 2 PARA at their Headquarters near Skopje, Macedonia. :)

http://img133.exs.cx/img133/7845/451372490ra.jpg

144 Para Med Sqn set off on their bikes.

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1999 More than 2000 thousand troops from 16 Air Mobile Brigade Based in Colchester seen here involved in the nine day Exercise Gryphon's Eye, throughout Hampshire and Wiltshire where they will be testing airbourne and air assualt operations. A total of 300 vehicles, 25 Army and Raf Helicopters and 15 C130 Hercules aircraft where involved in the exercise.

http://img133.exs.cx/img133/8365/451119146qd.jpg

Same exercise as above

http://img90.exs.cx/img90/1158/451138334eh.jpg

Sergeant Major Mick Robson (40) From Liecester counts the markers on a site of a massed grave in the Kosovo town of Kacnik as he patrols the outskirts of the town. Mick from the 1st Battalion The Parachute Regiment was air lifted into Kosovo in an early morning insertion by NATO. The Paras were to secure the only road between the Macedonian border and Pristina. “ When you look at what has happened to the villagers you have to feel sorry for them. There arre two massed graves in this village with an estimated 98 peolple in them”

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A Sapper from 9 Independent Parachute Squadron Royal Engineers looks towards a noise in the tree covered slopes of the Kacnik pass. Behind him is the strategic bridge that was vital to the route into Pristina if the British column was to pass over it. As he guards the bridge Engineers check for hidden explosives.

http://img90.exs.cx/img90/479/451138495yz.jpg

A Paratrooper from the 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment shows grit and determination as he leads a column of soldiers up the Kacnik pass.

[DeltaWhisky58]

http://www.parachute-regiment.com/

[§nake]

Great picture's, airborn all the way woot

[MARINO]

Nice pics

[mmackem]

http://img23.exs.cx/img23/6893/451094710al.jpg

Lance Corporal Dave Higgins (25) from HALIFAX and Private Peter O'Mailley (23) from STIRLING Scotland stand Guard outside B Company, 1st Battalion the Parachute Regiment, Headquarters at a small village 5km from Lungi Airport. The soldiers from B Company are part of the British Force in Sierra Leone currently defending the strategically important airfield.

http://img23.exs.cx/img23/4278/451117087kb.jpg

A machine gunner from the 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment gets to grips with his General Purpose Machine Gun during the attack on Imber village in the heart of the Salisbury Plain Military Training Area

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A Paratrooper from the 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment ties to enter a heavily fortified building during the attack on Imber village in the heart of the Salisbury Plain Military Training Area


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Soldiers from D Company 2 Para swim the Macal river with their equipment during jungle training in the Belizian jungle.

[CannibalSquirel]

Great pics. :)

[Yosy]

Awsome pics. The paras really know how to go to war with style, with their sporty red berets.

[Pongo]

Awsome pics. The paras really know how to go to war with style, with their sporty red berets.

Yosy mate, it's a Maroon beret.

[kayaker]

Most enjoyable! Thanks for taking the time to post it. Having spend a week with 3 Para I can tell you they are hard as rocks. Not people to mess with.

Ryan

[Fee Fi Fo Fum]

Great Pictures!

[goldman]

Oh man thank u guys too good woot woot woot

[Kampfhamster]

http://img133.exs.cx/img133/7845/451372490ra.jpg


144 Para Med Sqn set off on their bikes.

well, the British Army must be very poor, because these Paras are using Swiss bycicle 02 (1902)

[Fee Fi Fo Fum]

http://img133.exs.cx/img133/7845/451372490ra.jpg


144 Para Med Sqn set off on their bikes.

well, the British Army must be very poor, because these Paras are using Swiss bycicle 02 (1902)

:cantbeli:

[fantassin]

Anybody has noticed the Polish wings on the chest of one Brit Para ?

Reminds me of some long nights in "The Rat Pit" in Aldershot during "Airborne Forces Day" a good 12-15 years ago...still have the t-shirt "Rat arssed in the rat pit" on one side and "paras do it at the drop of a "hat" " on the other....

[Kampfhamster]

@Fee: ??

[Or4cle]

Really nice pics!!!

[Fee Fi Fo Fum]

@Fee: ??

Yea the british army want to spend there funds on upgrading all there bikes, in the war against racing... (<-- sarcasm) man there just bikes.... to ride round on, patrol, get the locals support, nothing special...

that fact i done that :cantbeli: was that you judged a whole nation's military funds by there bikes... you should work for your nations intelligence agency with the skills you got...

[oldsoak]

...he's probably right though - I wouldnt put it past our penny pinching tight ars*s in the MOD to give us what others have thrown out. The bikes are probably older than that. I think theres a photos of the DDAY landing with squaddies carrying bikes of an LCT. Whats the betting they are the same bikes ?

CO Para Regt " I need transport for my troops so that they deploy quickly to nip any trouble in the bud. It needs to be able to go any place and be stealthy ".
MOD bean counter " We'll get them a push bike "

[Kampfhamster]

@Fee: erm do you know what's irony? Don't take everything so serious.

by the way: I found out that the picture was taken during the Swiss Raid Commando.

[mmackem]

.he's probably right though - I wouldnt put it past our penny pinching tight ars*s in the MOD to give us what others have thrown out. The bikes are probably older than that. I think theres a photos of the DDAY landing with squaddies carrying bikes of an LCT. Whats the betting they are the same bikes ?

Here are two more bike photos.

http://media.militaryphotos.net/photos/albums/album16/aal.jpg

http://img10.exs.cx/img10/1670/451062998hq.jpg

Using his initiative, Major Andy Teitge of 17 Port and Maritime Regiment, Royal Logistics Corps, checks his rolling stock prior to the move north from Greece to FYROM, on a bicycle he salvaged from a port skip.

So it looks like the British Army's bikes now consist of 100year old swiss bikes, pink girls mountain bikes, and bikes thieved out of skips. LOL Now theres a suprise. Not! :)

[Yosy]

Awsome pics. The paras really know how to go to war with style, with their sporty red berets.

Yosy mate, it's a Maroon beret.

Ah, its all the same. They're not crap-hats :P ;)

[EsoognomEhT]

16 Air Mobile Brigade



?!?! Air Assualt too aggressive now is it??

[Malc]

I know the reason why they ride bikes, its that old hearts and minds policy you appear much less agressive and are much easier to talk to on a bike instead of on the top of a challenger.

[Loug]

really cool photos, and some photos of the pathfinders?????

[Sir James]

http://www.defenceimagedatabase.mod.uk/FotoWeb/FWbin/preview.dll/45108580.jpg?D=A3108B28C8B3B032194131CE08F670ECE6B1838E4B40E5E614A0B3395072B1683679B0B233B26840E83D0D8C18ACC907A150640268C2BC2B6BA0BE589409A282C22978D0A09FD8DBDCCC4E96E67C07CB0F800D0589DDABDA13CFAA0E264AC608D5A2B2576C4B5B178D22C975D5AE0E2712901BA53442535D8A5E88A0CD814850DADBBCE20B0C90BF90D6F3383D60D 7FC2D903F7733E4D4659655A80F6D3FC911EE12749478225561EF5F007B2926B367B7571DD6FD73703969E6DE04A5AC0538
http://www.defenceimagedatabase.mod.uk/FotoWeb/FWbin/preview.dll/45141544.jpg?D=A3108B28C8B3B032194131CE08F670ECE6B1838E4B40E5E614A0B3395072B1683679B0B233B26840E83D0D8C18ACC907A150640268C2BC2B6BA0BE589409A282C22978D0A09FD8DB5DA8ECF5010502FB0F800D0589DDABDA13CFAA0E264AC608D5A2B2576C4B5B178D22C975D5AE0E2712901BA53442535D8A5E88A0CD814850DADBBCE20B0C90BFB38D05B783F4E 99FC9402D9A5AB7E5BD9655A80F6D3FC911EE12749478225561EF5F007B2926B367B7571DD6FD73703969E6DE04A5AC0538
http://www.defenceimagedatabase.mod.uk/FotoWeb/FWbin/preview.dll/45142832.jpg?D=A3108B28C8B3B032194131CE08F670ECE6B1838E4B40E5E614A0B3395072B1683679B0B233B26840E83D0D8C18ACC907A150640268C2BC2B6BA0BE589409A282C22978D0A09FD8DB7C3D098BC8DEDEFF0F800D0589DDABDA13CFAA0E264AC608D5A2B2576C4B5B178D22C975D5AE0E2712901BA53442535D8A5E88A0CD814850DADBBCE20B0C90BF0F9FC1D6F1E41 65B3C48FF78552519FB9655A80F6D3FC911EE12749478225561EF5F007B2926B367B7571DD6FD73703969E6DE04A5AC0538

[Eldar]

kickass pics!

[Alphonse]

Great picture's, airborn all the way woot
True dat!!!!

[Sleepy]

Very good pics!!!

[Spike_Kojima]

Some more slighty hi(er)-res pics.

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/1804/paras46sf.th.jpg (http://img247.imageshack.us/my.php?image=paras46sf.jpg)
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/2148/paras14vh.th.jpg (http://img145.imageshack.us/my.php?image=paras14vh.jpg)
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/4450/patrol19qe.th.jpg (http://img247.imageshack.us/my.php?image=patrol19qe.jpg)
http://img492.imageshack.us/img492/3161/sniper3ov.th.jpg (http://img492.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sniper3ov.jpg)