An operational unit of an army consisting of troops trained and equipped to be dropped by parachute from aircraft.
he is now serving with the Parachute Regiment
Example sentencesExamples
- A young soldier—a friend of my brothers—came to spend Christmas with us, and he was in the Parachute Regiment.
- For me this tour was the exact reason I joined the Parachute Regiment.
- He spent 22 years in the parachute regiment.
- I had a brief experience with the Parachute Regiment, which taught me that I was not remotely cut out to be a soldier.
- Soldiers from the Parachute Regiment were the first to arrive and they successfully evacuated British citizens.
- He has spoken to officers from the Parachute Regiment and subject to passing a medical he will be accepted.
- He enlisted in the Parachute Regiment for a three-year term.
- He was an officer in the parachute regiment of the British Army.
- It had always been Andy's ambition to be a Parachute Regiment soldier and he was welcomed from the moment he arrived.
- He did a stint with the British Army's intelligence corps, then trained with the elite first parachute regiment.