First woman to join Paras

Well done, Capt Rosie Wild. Awesome achievement!

She's not joining the Paras though, although the article didn't make clear why. Such an amazing achievement to earn her maroon beret that I felt a bit deflated when I realised she wouldn't be joining the regiment.

I’ve just read what they have to do to qualify. Wow.

‘Also a competitive triathlete’ - surely she could add a few more sports in there in her spare time?

(And like many people at the peak of fitness, she’s genuinely stunning as well.)

Is she really? Well that’s a thing! (Proud aunt brag - my niece was top of her intake of fire fighters and did the same physical challenges as the men).

First woman to pass since it became open to women 30 years ago apparently!

" Marching 20 miles (32km) with a backpack and rifle, within four hours and 10 minutes"

a tough call without the backpack and rifle

'Captain Rosie Wild' - Dickens himself couldn't come up with a more inspiring or evocative name. Love it! And she's only 28. Christ.

The boxing thing basically sounds like take a beating can’t defend or block
So delighted she’s a woman - well done Rosie!

Wow! What an inspiring woman. She must be incredible to overcome the height disadvantage she has on some of those team challenges.

Is it men who she is boxing too?

Fantastic!

And she's only 28

That is pretty much your peak physically.

Amazing achievement

Fantastic. I am genuinely in awe. You are amazing, Captain Rosie Wild

Well done Capt Rosie!

The people that take these selection tests are are as nails, as well as nuts! My BIL passed out as a Royal Marine on the third (and final) attempt having suffered hairline fractures on his first attempt and hypothermia on his second.

Plenty of women in the Parachute Regiment. They are Quartermasters, Adjutants and Medical Officers. One famous documentary on P Company showed a fearsome Trunchbull of an M.O. who wielded an officers cain to smack any recruit who presented improperly when she asked them to cough.

I mentally finished your opening post with 'the first woman in the paras "is a man"' such is the state of things nowadays.

A sign of our times that I had to read the story all the way down to checik whether this was really a woman.....
I had to check the photograph, to see that she was clearly shorter and more lightly built than the men around her.
Women are being erased....

I would be genuinely impressed by a transwoman who got through that selection test too -- as long as she didn't claim to be the 'first woman' to do so.

Funny isn't it? Fully expected that top be a transwoman but a split second's look at a photograph and we know... we really do know... Capt Rosie is an actual becunted woman!

Still pissed off that my first thought wasn't congratulatory. STOP FUCKING STEALING MY LIFE!!!!

What an achievement! She must be well hard (and I mean that as a compliment).

I hope someone knows her personally that can direct her to the congratulations!

"I would be genuinely impressed by a transwoman who got through that selection test too -- as long as she didn't claim to be the 'first woman' to do so."

Remember Chloe? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/transgender-soldier-british-army-serve-frontline-scots-guards-chloe-allen-a7312751.html