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This weeks Parachute Regiment Inspiration: Patience and Determination

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This weeks Parachute Regiment inspiration - A proud history!

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This weeks Parachute Regiment inspiration - Its not all action!

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This weeks Parachute Regiment inspiration - A reserve Para is still a Para!

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Operation Fingal

In early 2002 16 Air Assault Brigade took a lead role in the International Assistance Security Force (ISFA). They were deployed to assist the new Afghan Interim Authority helping with security and the stability of Kabul.

British troops are taking part in two separate missions in Afghanistan.

Operation Fingal is the UK-led peacekeeping mission. Almost 20 other nations have contributed to this operation based in the Afghan capital Kabul.

The second is Operation Veritas, an offensive mission led by US forces against Taleban and al-Qaeda units still operating in Afghanistan.

The men from 2 PARA started to deploy on 30th December to Afghanistan on Operation Fingal, the journey to Afghanistan took over a month due to limitations on the use of Bagram airfield. The airfield is the largest US military base in Afghanistan and is located next to the ancient city of Bagram.

2 PARA where responsible for the security/peacekeeping of southern Kabul, which had been left in a bad way with over 23 years of war. The Battalion set about its role of peacekeeping, using traditional styles of making friends and deterring potential enemies.

During this operation, the first ever battalion of the Afgan National Guard was recruited and trained by 2 PARA, these been the first group to then start training the rest.

By early April the Paras had handed over to 1 Royal Anglian and returned to Colchester.

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16 Air Assault Brigade Afghanistan service

A parade at Colchester’s Merville Barracks formally marked the end of 16 Air Assault Brigade’s involvement in Afghanistan and honoured the memory of the 58 soldiers killed while under the brigade’s command. Some 1,000 soldiers from all of the units that deployed with 16 Air Assault Brigade, plus civilian support staff, were on parade for a short but solemn service that including the reading of the names of the soldiers who gave their lives. Music was provided by The Band of the Parachute Regiment. The Brigade Senior Chaplain, Reverend Alan Steele, who deployed to Afghanistan on three occasions with the Brigade, said: “In December 2014 the last soldiers from 16 Air Assault Brigade returned home from operational deployments to Afghanistan, bringing to an end a commitment to that theatre of operations which began in January 2002. It is important that we, as a Brigade, gather together to mark this moment and pause to reflect on our overall involvement in Afghanistan.

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This weeks Parachute Regiment inspiration

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James Degale trains with the parachute regiment.

James DeGale prepares for his upcoming fight on November 22nd the best way he can, training with one of Britain's elite military units, The Parachute Regiment.