{"id":3218,"date":"2020-02-19T11:56:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T11:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2020-02-19T11:56:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T11:56:40","slug":"british-army-officer-becomes-first-woman-to-pass-brutal-para-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2020\/02\/19\/british-army-officer-becomes-first-woman-to-pass-brutal-para-course\/","title":{"rendered":"British Army officer becomes first woman to pass brutal Para course"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2020\/02\/110952861_mod.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2020\/02\/110952861_mod.jpg 660w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2020\/02\/110952861_mod-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A British Army officer has become the first woman to pass a gruelling Parachute Regiment entry test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Capt Rosie Wild, 28, was described as a &#8220;trailblazer&#8221; after passing the P Company course &#8211; which many men fail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several women have attempted P Company, also known as the All Arms Pre-Parachute Selection (AAPPS), since they were first able to apply in the 1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Physical challenges across the five days include a timed 20-mile endurance march and an aerial assault course.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-51553815#\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British Army officer has become the first woman to pass a gruelling Parachute Regiment entry test. Capt Rosie Wild, 28, was described as a &#8220;trailblazer&#8221; after passing the P Company course &#8211; which many &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}