Para Course

As proven in World War Two, paratroopers are force-multipliers for the commander in the field. Paratroopers can be inserted behind enemy lines to take and hold important strategic links and positions, before the enemy can destroy them. It takes a special breed of soldier to be willing to jump out of an aircraft with 100lbs of equipment into possible battle. We go Trenton, Ontario, to follow a group of young soldiers from the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry who want to earn their paratrooper wings. The training is intense and the pressure acute – any mistakes could cost them their lives.