Comments by "vk2ig" (@vk2ig) on "BFBS Forces News" channel.

  1. There's always someone who wants to put down someone else's effort.
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  2. They needed every bit of firepower they could get at the objective, and leaving that with injured men doesn't achieve that. Also, the likelihood of Argentinian forces patrolling in that area was very low. Instead of projecting power forward to the British beachhead at San Carlos, the Argentinian commanders chose to pull back into defensive positions in the high ground before Stanley - effectively they surrendered the initiative and unwittingly commenced the process of losing the war.
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  3. Please correct me if I have got this wrong, but wasn't a new CO appointed to 2 Para soon after Goose Green - LTCOL David Chaundler?
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  4. 600 ft ascent out of San Carlos. The British didn't land at Port Stanley - they landed on the western side of East Falkland.
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  5. Read some of the accounts in Above All, Courage by Max Arthur - you will get some of that perspective.
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