Paul A Curry

Paul Curry served with 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (2 PARA). He has served operationally in Northern Ireland and Bosnia.

He has also taken part in various Airborne exercises around the world. One of these, Exercise Purple Star at Fort Bragg, North Carolina with the 82nd Airborne Division in 1996. This was the biggest Airborne drop during peacetime.

By Paul Curry

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The 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (2 PARA)

Operations

Event

Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)

A brief honeymoon as peace keepers between two warring communities locked in civil unrest descended into a virtual civil war between Republican IRA and Protestant para-military groups during the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’ that were to last 37 years.