"One thousand, Two thousand , Three thousand.... Check!! Front, Over right, Over left, Under left, Under right, In between. Good Para Position!!" This is what I have been doing for the pass one week, preparation for my first official jump out of a perfectly good aircraft. Been training to break fall every single day, every minute to ensure that I'll be fine after my jump. It's not going to be easy, but others have done it before and I'm going to do it. The common brotherhood of the Red Berets is derived by the experience of parachuting. No Commando wears the Red Beret without having previously earned the parachutist wings. The Commando Airborne Course entails a total of five parachute descents. Three of these will be executed in daylight, whilst two are executed in darkness. Commando students are required to jump with combat equipment from the fourth jump onwards to earn the converted red backing. But being able to meet up with my previous course mates was a bonus in this course that I'm undertaking.

"Airborne, 195th BAC, Airborne."

I am an Airborne trooper! A paratrooper!

I jump by parachute from any place in flight.

I volunteered to do it knowing well the hazards of my choice.

I am an elite trooper, a sky trooper, a shock trooper, an elite trooper.

I blaze the way to far-flung goals-behind, before, above the foe's front line.

I never find a fellow trooper I cherish as a sacred trust the lives of the men with whom I serve. Leaders have my fullest loyalty, and those I lead never find me lacking.

I have pride in the Airborne.

I never let it down.

In peace I do not shirk the dullest duty nor protest the toughest training.

In battle I fear no foe's ability nor under-estimate his prowess, power and guile.

I fight him with all my might and skill-ever alert to evade capture or escape a trap.

I never surrender though I may be the last.

I belong to a proud and glorious team......

the Airborne, the Army, my country.

I am a trooper of the sky!

I am my Nation's best. In peace and war I never fail.

Anywhere, anytime, in anything......

I am Airborne!