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2 PARA

2nd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment

Utrinque Paratus · Ready for Anything

Airborne infantry. The main body of the brigade — inserted by air, on the objective first, and holding what they take.

Current standing

Posted strength

36

Established billets

39

Open billets

3

Listed in full below.

The role

What this sub-unit is for

2 PARA is where most of the brigade serves and where most applicants are posted. C Company fields 7 Platoon — three rifle sections and a platoon headquarters — with a company aid post and a mortar section in support. It is a full infantry platoon, run as one, not a collection of players who happen to spawn together.

The battalion's job is to take and hold ground after an air assault insertion. That means Chinook or fast-rope insertion onto or near the objective, a deliberate advance to contact, an assault, then consolidation and defence of what you have just taken while the aviation element repositions.

You will be in a section of six to eight for months at a time. That continuity is the point: after a few operations your section commander knows who is quick on a flank and who is steady on a gun, and the drills stop needing to be talked through.

Kit and platforms

Weapons
L85A3L110A3 LMGL7A2 GPMGL129A1 sharpshooterNLAW / Javelin
Insertion
Chinook HC6Wildcat AH1Fast ropeStatic line
Comms
PRR — fireteamAN/PRC-343 — sectionAN/PRC-117F — platoon signaller

On the night

What you actually do

Insertion

Chalked onto a Chinook by section, or fast-roped in if the landing site is denied. You will know your chalk, your seat and your order off the ramp before you board.

Advance and assault

Fire and manoeuvre by fireteam under your section commander, with the gun group giving you the fire support to move. Compound entry is deliberate and rehearsed, not a race through the door.

Consolidation

Positions dug in or occupied, arcs assigned, casualties treated and extracted through the company aid post. This is where operations are actually lost, so we train it as hard as the assault.

Extraction

Back onto the airframe under whatever cover the Apache is providing, or a ground move to a rendezvous with 1 R IRISH's vehicles.

In the field

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2 PARA, on operations

Training pathway

Training programme →

Courses, in the order you take them

Every course below is run in-house on a training night and produces a qualification record on your file. Nothing here costs you anything but the evening.

01

Combat Infantryman's Course

Everyone. Weapon handling, section drills, casualty care.

02

Basic Parachute Course

Wings. Static line insertion and the airborne role.

03

GPMG (Light Role) Cadre

The gun. Opens the gunner slot in a section.

04

Section Commander's Battle Course

Command of a section. Prerequisite for Corporal.

05

Pathfinder Selection

Reconnaissance ahead of the main force. Selective.

Open billets

Where we are short

These are unfilled positions on the live order of battle. Name one on your application and it will be considered when you are posted.

2 PARA crest 7 PL 1 SECT

7 Platoon, 1 Section

Rifleman

A vacant posting on the live order of battle.

2 PARA crest 7 PL 1 SECT

7 Platoon, 1 Section

Rifleman

A vacant posting on the live order of battle.

2 PARA crest 7 PL 2 SECT

7 Platoon, 2 Section

Rifleman

A vacant posting on the live order of battle.

Structure

2 PARA in full

Join 2 PARA

Ask for this sub-unit on your application

Riflemen. No experience required and no prior Arma milsim needed — the Combat Infantryman's Course starts from weapon handling. If you can make most Sundays and take direction on a radio, you will fit.

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