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Season 1

  • S01E01 Episode 1

    • January 10, 2019
    • ITV1

    In the first programme, 41 recruits start training at Catterick barracks

  • S01E02 Episode 2

    • January 17, 2019
    • ITV1

    Documentary giving access to the parachute regiment, following the tough 28-week training course as recruits are pushed to the extremes of endurance and learn vital skills to gain their coveted maroon beret. This time, the remaining recruits are subjected to the most physical and psychologically challenging part of the course yet, as they endure the Army's toughest selection process - P Company.

  • S01E03 Episode 3

    • January 24, 2019
    • ITV1

    As the first British regiment to respond to any military conflict, on call to jump and face the enemy at a moment's notice, the experienced Paras take part in an international joint exercise with the US 82nd Airborne Division, parachuting along the Latvian border. The documentary also concludes the recruits' story as they are broken in together at the Colchester HQ and follows Private Kojo-Braima as he tries to earn his wings. Can he make his first parachute jump from a Hercules transporter and finally make the grade? Last in series.