Not a weak sex: a woman for the first time brilliantly passed the hardest tests in the Parachute Regiment
Being a soldier is hard, being a female soldier is doubly hard, becoming a female airborne officer is almost impossible. The Parachute Regiment is an elite unit of the British military forces, which not every soldier can get into. The tests that need to be passed are often beyond the strength of even strong men. This fragile girl is a real heroine of our time. She coped with the difficulties, met all the standards and set an example to everyone who doubts their abilities.
Read on how a weak woman put strong men behind her belt and defeated them and stereotypes.The female officer withstood the most difficult tests and passed the selection in Parachute regiment.Captain Eva Howard from the Royal Medical Corps impressed the commanders with her endurance and determination.Badge-emblem on the beret of the Parachute Regiment of Great Britain
For five days, she passed the hardest endurance tests together with the other 73 candidates. The woman overcame eight difficult stages, including a 16-kilometer march through a difficult territory in full uniform. She completed this task in less than 1 hour and 50 minutes.Almost all the tasks were completed with "excellent".Captain Howard shone at all stages, even at the 60-second boxing match, where she defeated a male opponent.The girl was running with a 60-kilogram deck on her shoulder along with a team of eight soldiers. The length of the distance running through the hilly terrain was 3 kilometers.Eva passed all the tests, endurance tasks, attacks, but did not run about 3 kilometers to complete the exam.Eva was eliminated from the stage of running with a stretcher, during which a team of 16 people takes turns carrying a 70-kilogram stretcher, overcoming a distance of 8 kilometers. The girl fell before reaching the finish line.Captain Howard is a mountaineer, traveler and cyclist. She passed the tests, which are considered the most difficult among all military exams in the world.Permission for women to participate in these competitions was given in 2016, but none of the fairer sex could pass them as brilliantly as Eva Howard did.A beautiful woman with remarkable fortitude and physical abilities impressed all the military commanders of the Parachute Regiment. Eva proved to the whole world that a fragile figure is not a reason to consider women the weaker sex. Purposeful and hardy, she destroyed stereotypes and became a model for those who doubt their own abilities.
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