Love these. Those guys are badass, I would love to see one lay the smack down.
My only interaction was when I had a week break to come back to the US to visit my folks during my idf service. I had a layover in London to visit a female friend, and took one day to see the sights. I was walking around the tower of London, wearing a sweatshirt with paratroop wings on it, it was dead quiet, no other tourists, when all of a sudden someone behind me says 'so you think you're a badass, hmm?'. I turned in surprise, and said 'excuse me?'. 'you heard me, you think you're a fucking badass? ' so I said' what makes you think that? '' well, you're wearing an idf para shirt, you need to earn that, I've jumped with those guys, I know '. ' funny you say that, I am one of those guys'.
We had a nice chat after that. Cool guy in his 40's who was a guard or security there, with over 500 jumps, on the skydiving team or something. Definitely made me feel like a noob.