Comments by "Chris Cain" (@buffplums) on "How the SAS used Stinger missiles to divert Argentina in the Falklands" video.

Fantatsic annecdotes … makes one realise the foolishness of war… that servicemen across the sides are engaging in something that is not really their fight and it’s good that real goodness of humanity can survive the wickedness of the battles. It was nice as I shared the same aircraft as sir Michael recently as I flew down to the Falklands on a job I was doing
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@ I wasn’t saying that defending the islands was foolish but the way that wars continually are fought because one party feels the need to use a situation to their advantage at the expense of so many lives because the aggressor is not prepared to discuss the issue, simply because they themselves as individuals will stand to lose. I am patriotic in the point of defending the Falklands as British sovereignty because we are the on,y nation that ever showed any commitment to the islands. As a firmer RAF serviceman, despite being too young by a factor of 2 years to have been able to serve during the war, I did however arrive in 84 and on around 4 visits between 84 and 2002 carrying out the first stages in established telephone and digital data links between RAF Stanley HQ BBFI and the 3 mountain Radar sites. I did a further 3 tours maintaining HF transmitters at Bush Rincon and the radars at Mt Kent and Mt Alice. I also had the honour of being invited back down on 3 occasions in 2022 to train the techies working on the same radar. I remain proud o have served there and have seen around 1 1/2 years of my life down there. It’s an amazing and very unique place. Sadly it’s unlikely I will ever see the islands again but I take away many fins memories.
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