was the one that stated that if he was to be such he should at least jump. If true I'll give him credit for that and not complain about him not doing P Coy...
Apparently he did do all of P-Coy, except milling - on the grounds that it would be unfair on another recruit to be obliged to try to beat up the future King. At least that was the genuinely accepted wisdom on Arsse last time I checked.
However, on the same grounds, I'm equally fairly sure that he didn't do all the (then) eight qualifying jumps. I think he only did the singleton 800ft daylight jump without webbing & drop-kit which used to be the first qualifying jump of the course.
anyone wearing RAF Parachute badges were not fit to do so
LOL - had the same smug snigger when I read Helpful Stacker's clarification of the RAF regulations!