Falklands veteran on how UK troops took back Goose Green in key battle 

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Is your mate Ged Breslin from Urmston ?

@@richardbrown4378 yes, ged Breslin , I lived in urmston and moved away about 25years ago

I worked in Iraq with Ged back in 2003-2005 , great guy both of us ex 2 Para but Falklands was way before my time. Hope he’s keeping well 👍

Every nation says that and the wars never stop about time human beings grow up and stop killing each other

I was exactly the same age I remember watching morning tv at 6 am and straight away I was so excited and got my gurka knife someone got me I went in to my mum and dad’s room shouting what was happening and me dad shouted go to bed you………….. I will never forget it and I will never forget those brave men

Always thought it more than a bit odd that Maj Keeble was not permitted to continue in command of 2 Para for the rest of the conflict. Clearly a gallant and more than capable officer.

@@billbligh4547 There was a very limited choice available within the task force and parachuting an OC from outside the Regt would have been detrimental to morale

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?

@@vk2ig He took over command from the 2nd June (some 4 days after Goose Green) he was flown to toake command as there was no suitable replacement for H Jones in theatre, Keeble was given temporary command after Jones death

We will always remember them. We will never forget.🇬🇧💔🙏

They never do if it was rough, had an uncle in Burma WW2.. didn't know he was there until he was buried.

Look up the incident with RFA Sir Galahad for the Welsh guards

Youth is wasted on the young.

Oh bore off- its what they generically called the aircraft attacking them at the time- nothing inaccurate about that. Also, and if you’re going to be a pedant, then a Pucara is powered by twin turboprops - which are a type of jet engine.

@@chad6080 Mike didn't call it a jet; he referred to it as a Pucara. Thanks for your contribution.👍

And if you hear the RAF Reg is advancing then dig your own grave!

@@maratonlegendelenemirei3352 no one ever hears th RAF reg until it's too late.

Tell that to the Germans at Arnhem! Para's were Royally left to fend for themselves, because it was just a bridge too far.

@@maratonlegendelenemirei3352 RAF Reg don't advance.

@@snowflakemelter1172 No one ever hears RAF Reg at all. They're usually sleeping.

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@@mikewingert-savagelyerudite Thanks!

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Yes, nothing to be proud of, fighting for your life against massive odds, sustaining significant casualties yet prevailing. Nothing to be proud of.

The sinking of Atlantic Conveyor and the loss of the helicopters she carried meant that the ability to fly well rested troops to suitable DZs close to their start lines as intended was lost. This meant that there was no way to fight the ground war any other way. Yes the CVR(T)s did prove the RE estimate of where they could operate was wrong but there was no way to get more there let alone AFV 432s, which, with their heavier ground pressure may have been too limited in where they could go. Deploying mechanised infantry would have required a logistical capability that was, at that time, impossible without a port, and that was Stanley. The estimate of what was required was constrained by what was available, could be carried there and landed. A car ferry loaded with AFV 432s would have been useless until the war was won.

That ignores the entire logistics of the operation to retake the Falklands. Completely different operation from the Gulf War, and the USA has far far larger logistical capacities than Britain. The nearest forward operating post to the Falklands for the British was thousands of miles. During the Gulf War the USA was piling in troops and equipment into neighbouring Kosovo and Saudi Arabia for months before the operation.

@@Azog150 exactly!

@Clyde Cessna: Drawing comparisons with US Forces in the 1990-91, or 2003 campaigns in the Gulf Region is not fair, accurate or appropriate here, especially, as in both campaigns the US 🇺🇸 & it’s Allies including the UK 🇬🇧 had months of prior preparation in lands & territories abutting either Kuwait or Iraq to build-up in-full (All their required land , sea & air Forces’s assets!), all their respective forces unhindered, & where the opportunity & availability of deploying “heavy armoured units & equipment” was desirable & feasible in those desert environs & climes! However, the UK effectively had only four short days to gather & dispatch from its shores the initial elements of an “Expeditionary-Task Force” to liberate the Falklands from Argentinian aggression & occupation at that time in 1982! Therefore, in such detrimental prevalent conditions approaching the severe Antarctic winter with marshy, peat-bog & hilly/rocky landscapes & environments (Unsuitable for heavy Armor & tanks etc.), to also overcome, as found in the Falkland Islands 🇫🇰, & then even despite additionally being located more than 8,000 miles (Around 16,000 Km) from the British Mainland bases, they only had still planned very light reconnaissance type vehicles to utilize there (As did the Argentinians for the same or similar reasons too!!) to traverse the rudimentary roads & tracks there, as well as the dangerously soft, often water-logged, peat-bog & salt-marsh terrain to be located there in East or West Falklands, in-spite-of the plethora of aforementioned disadvantages or deficiencies, they nevertheless successfully prevailed over the Argentinian forces there then, which was, under these challenging circumstances, no mean or small feat-of-arms, while enduring an acceptable casualty rate of some 255 🇬🇧 dead & 775 wounded or injured, (Actually, in perspective, a quite low death-tally & a respectable/tolerable 1:3 ratio😢 of dead to wounded rates)! Remember too, the British Forces too had an effective reduced operational capacity due to the Argentine Air Forces’s strike by an “Exocet” missile that had sunk the requisitioned mercantile ship (Non-Combat), the “Atlantic Conveyor,” which had contained most of the Army’s & Marine’s ‘Helicopters & heavy equipment , parts & stores!! This had effectively hamstrung the ground forces ability to operate in their usual fashion that in-turn, necessitated the ground-forces command to regroup & then ‘tab’ or ‘yomp’ all their packs, weapon-systems & stores by foot from the ‘Beachhead at San Carlos Bay’ on the west coast of East Falkland, & traverse the 60 miles (96 Km) physically carrying most of their equipment & stores themselves mainly on foot, as stated previously! Don’t forget, before in history in 1944, in WW2 that the bulk of the British & Canadian forces effectively marched also on foot mainly from the Normandy landing-grounds to Berlin during 1944-45, so it wasn’t (moving on foot/tactical advance to battle - ‘tabbing’) that far removed from British Military Training manuals at the time too! Don’t forget also that the British Paras, RM Commandos & it’s troops of the 1st Infantry Division are/were extremely well-trained & conditioned to expect & successfully deal with any/all changes to plans under extreme challenges & conditions, anywhere at anytime, so much of their successful campaign in 1982 was down to these basic facts! In short, it was ‘Training, Training & Training’ that then carried the day for them, good intelligence coupled with positive motivation, & a sizable dose of good fortune of course!

A 432 wouldnt have lasted 5 mins in that terrain (& htf could they replenish it?)

Why did the Paras get all the publicity?.

@@daveratcliffe1016 because they fought in the hardest battles and lost the most men, true warriors

To Alan Wales.

This man is a Paratrooper. He is telling his life story as he experienced it while fighting with the paras, he speaks for them as he is one of them. We will hear the stories from The Royal Marines and The Guards in due course. Learn some patience and stop being rude.

Because the Paras were first on to the Island, the first in to battle, the only unit to fight 2 battles, and the 1st in to Port Stanley, and that was just 2 Para. The only regiment to win a VC.... 2 in fact!! That's why!!

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