UK - Catterick - Young army recruits near collapse

While being shouted and screamed at by a tattooed instructor, a squad of 8 soldier recruits experience the extreme exhaustion and stress during an army team event in which they haul a log (a telegraph pole) weighing 60 kg over 1.9 miles (3.1 km) of undulating terrain. Candidates wear only a numbered helmet and webbing but all their energies must go into performing as a team and completing the course in the time allotted. This is supposed to be one of the hardest events of what the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme. Recruits wanting to join the British Army's elite Parachute Regiment held regularly at Catterick army barracks, Yorkshire need to pass this and other tests before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.

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While being shouted and screamed at by a tattooed instructor, a squad of 8 soldier recruits experience the extreme exhaustion and stress during an army team event in which they haul a log (a telegraph pole) weighing 60 kg over 1.9 miles (3.1 km) of undulating terrain. Candidates wear only a numbered helmet and webbing but all their energies must go into performing as a team and completing the course in the time allotted. This is supposed to be one of the hardest events of what the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme. Recruits wanting to join the British Army's elite Parachute Regiment held regularly at Catterick army barracks, Yorkshire need to pass this and other tests before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.