200 British Paratroopers from 2 PARA and the Pathfinders, recently deployed into Qasr Al Hallabat, spearheading as the Lead Assault Force in Joint Theatre Entry Global Response Force. The paras jumped into a desert drop zone in Jordan, which was described as, ‘the biggest jump into this region since the 1956 Suez crisis’ – according […]
Soldiers from 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment share their experience of training with their US Army counterparts in Exercise Swift Response, part of the NATO Exercise Defender Europe 21. Soldiers from 2 PARA trained in the USA with 82nd Airborne; they then crossed the Atlantic ocean in Globemaster C-17 aircraft and parachuted into Estonia at […]