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A female Army officer yesterday became the first woman to complete the gruelling Parachute Regiment selection course. Captain Rosie Wild, 28, of the Royal Artillery, is the first woman to pass the All Arms Pre-Parachute Selection, more commonly known as ‘P company’ – the toughest military selection course outside the Special Forces. She was handed...

MPCT Isle of Wight, welcomed Radio’s Iona Stewart-Richardson to the college. The invitation came with an added bonus of undertaking a PT session with the Learners. Iona is exploring and expanding her knowledge of the Isle of Wight by meeting various people, groups and organisations. Her visit to MPCT Isle of Wight allowed her to...

On Friday 13th December 2019, teams from across the whole organisation travelled to The Slate, Coventry to attend the 2019 Senior Leadership Team Awards. This was a chance for our outstanding staff across all centres to be recognised for their hard work and dedication throughout the year. Looking forward to a very special SLT Awards...

Members of MPCT Newport, together with our Deputy Director of Communications, Huw Moores and Liasion Manager, Si Richardson had the pleasure of being able to watch the passing out parade of The King’s Squad at The Commando training Centre in Lympstone on Friday. Ex-Learner, Andrew Lewis of Military Preparation College Newport was passing out that...

Time To Talk Day brings the nation together (check out the hashtag #timetotalk) to get talking and break the silence around mental health problems. Too often, people who experience a mental health problem are also expected to take the lead on talking about mental health in the wider sense. Time To Talk Day encourages everyone...

Congratulations to MPCT Eastbourne Learner, Mr Cruttenden for passing Army Selection last week with an A grade. Mr Cruttenden joined Eastbourne college in July 2018 and since being on the course has achieved a City and Guilds level 2 Extended Certificate, moved up from Entry 1 maths to Entry 3 and is sitting his level...

Auschwitz survivors will be the most important guests at the event commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. It is expected that today, January 27, 2020, about 200 of them will come to the Memorial from all over the world. A delegation of approximately 120 Auschwitz and Holocaust survivors from the United States,...

The new year brings the welcome return of our weekly Vlog. We are back with a bang. A busy week up and down the country, all 28 colleges have taken part in Battle PT. Most have been lucky enough to do it in the late winter sun. If you enjoy receiving our Vlogs, you can...

MPCT Teesside welcomed Ben Parkinson MBE to their college on Monday. He is often described as inspirational, but to Ben Parkinson, the most severely injured UK serviceman to survive the Afghanistan conflict, it is those who surrounded him at his time of need, who are the “best and bravest” and who inspired him to recover....