UK's hardest woman soldier got within TWO miles of pass to be 1st female Para

And, in a rare honour, she was immediately invited to retake the course after Top Brass said she “smashed it”.

All tasks were marked except for the epic “trainasium” — an assault course 55ft above ground which is either a simple pass or fail.But she struggled in the Log Race, in which a team of eight soldiers carry a 60kg telegraph pole over 1.9 miles of hills. And on Tuesday she was pulled out of the Stretcher Race, where teams of 16 working four at a time carry a 70kg stretcher over five miles, after falling behind the pace with two miles to go.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

Yeah, this is not news...

Reason 17,767 why I don't read the tabloid press and not do so since I left the service 6 years ago.

This is a terrible bit of journalism. Twisted to the core in a cheap effort to humiliate a Soldier. I hope other members of the BritishArmy not put up with this ....

Really plays to The Sun demographic and their sexist narrative.

MilitaryBanter check this shitty story out.

She’s a medic attached to the Paras...

Reading the S*n lowers the nation's collective IQ

Ever get referred to as a ‘male journalist’ David? She’s a soldier not a ‘woman soldier’. Great taste in photos there too, ensuring we all remember that she might be a Captain, doctor, veteran and all-rounder but she’s also got a great rack. Quality journalism, that.

Hey it’s Soldier spelt correctly. No prefix required also.

“Nailed all the test” yet failed by 2 miles. “Hardest female”, yet didnt 2 pass the All Arms Commando Course years ago? Well done her for her efforts. Typical of the British media; where inaccuracy to the point of being wrong & exaggeration to the point of lying are the norm.

Who checked your spelling - 'solidier' fail poorservice

I know it’s pedantry, but since when did “woman” replace “female”? Woman soldier, woman priest, woman police officer. No; it’s female. No-one says “man soldier”. BTW It is “soldier”, not “solider”, which is a comparative form of “solid”. PS You are a bunch of shits.

Buuuuuut she didn’t.

Who writes this shit 😂

You can’t even spell soldier 😂

The course was 2.1 miles long.

Hey , sexism aside, this is just factually plain wrong. She wasn’t trying to join TheParachuteReg. She was simply attempting P Company to become para-qualified within her unit, AirborneMedics. Any 16AirAssltBde soldier can attempt P Coy, regardless of capbadge.

Unfortunately she comes a couple of inches SHORT.🤗

Might as well have been 10 miles. A fail is a fail

I almost went to the moon, but I didn’t frontpage

DavidWilletts3 Hello, David Willetts. An email address to send you a case about women military please

The real story here is not one isolated case. Its an open secret that the standard changes whenever a female is on the course. From digging out obstacle courses so they are tougher or changing the pace of tabs till they drop out. Females often fail because the staff want them to.

Failed so why bother with the story.

Two miles or two hundred miles the fact remains she didn't pass, bad luck but that's life.

A solider is a solider

It would be worthy of a read if it was 2 yards.

Smashed it but failed .

So she is not up to scratch Fail

Total non story ,she failed,only be news if she'd passed

Did she break a nail before the start course was 2 miles 🤣🤣

the course was only 3 miles though.

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