1.   Several writers have emphasised the very stressful nature of the parachute training at Ringway.

2.   Veterans of the Second World War aiming to re-create the airborne drop over Arnhem are undergoing parachute training.

3.   After volunteering for parachute training, he demonstrated such proficiency that he became a parachute instructor.

4.   In those incidents, young Marines were videotaped writhing in pain while trainers spiked military decorations into their chests as a crude ritual celebrating the completion of parachute training.

5.   Then there was a survival course in Hampshire, followed by parachute training near Manchester.

6.   Street was on the base in the morning to undergo an orientation including parachute training, a flight simulator and a turkey sandwich lunch.