16 Air Assault Brigade
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16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team is a formation of the British Army predominantly based in Colchester, Essex. It makes up the Air Assault Task Force, a battlegroup held at high readiness, and is the
Paratroopers from 16 Air Assault Brigade jump from a Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules over the Salisbury Plain Training Area during Exercise Wessex Storm on 19 November 2014.
Soldiers from 16 Air Assault Brigade preparing for an evening raid near Basra, Iraq
Top: Drop Zone patch. Bottom left to right: Desert Subdued, Full Colour, DPM Subdued versions of the Brigade's original Striking Eagle insignia (1999–2015)
The Parachute Regiment, known colloquially as the Paras, is the airborne and elite infantry regiment of the British Army. The first battalion is part of the Special Forces Support Group under the oper
16 Air Assault Brigade
…Battalion, The Parachute Regiment (Airborne Infantry, at Merville Barracks, Colchester Garrison 4th Battalion, The Parachute Regiment (Army Reserve), at Thornbury Barracks, Pudsey 1st Battalion or 2nd Battalion (rotates every 3 years), The Royal Gurkha Rifles (Air Assault Infantry), at Folkestone 1st Battalion, The Royal…
British parachute troops on exercise in Norwich 23 June 1941
Parachute training (1942)
British paratrooper of the 8th Parachute Battalion armed with the Sten gun wearing the airborne forces steel helmet and the Denison Smock (1943).
September 1953 parachute exercise by the 16th Airborne Division