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Falklands and South Atlantic Islands have a new defense commander
Commodore Darren Bone MA has been appointed as the next Commander British Forces South Atlantic Islands (CBFSAI), with headquarters in the Falkland Islands, and in April will replace Air Commodore Russ LaForte who has held the post since August 2013. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“We both thank you and wish the Falkland Islands every continued success in determining your future as you continue to Desire the Right.”
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 11:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0'Desire the Right.' Hear, hear!
No histrionics, no braggart comments just plain, genuinely held beliefs by both commanders.
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 12:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Contrast these two men with the load of shit the argies have to command them.
Is Milani in prison yet?
Wait for the letter to the UN decrying the appointment of a new Defence commander LOL
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 12:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Class act! Officer and a gentleman.
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 02:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0More good news for the defense of the British Falkland Islands.
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 03:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0God save the Queen,
Philippe
“safe guarding our citizens and their way of life remains the most important responsibility of Her Majesty’s Government and the MoD”
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 03:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A responsibility we will not shirk or retreat from, be it for 10, 100 or 1,000 years. The British people will never cease to support the British Forces South Atlantic Islands and our British citizens wherever they may be. Let there be no doubt. 'We shall go on to the end. We ...........shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island(s), whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender'. Words that have famously been said before. Words that every Briton recalls. Words that sum up Britain. No matter the cost.
These men have a covenant! A convenant with those men who made the supreme sacrifice all those years ago. They will never betray it, it is up to the rest of us to ensure that in the coming decades, our government, what ever government it may be, also do the same.
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 04:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I hope this new commander will not cry like Admiral West when the argis sunk his boat in 82...
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 05:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sad isn't it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VPkJWWGn3o
Radar picket, paid the ultimate price for victory.
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 06:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0On the subject of crying, saw a lot of Argies doing the same over the Belgrano?
By the way, why did your cowardly Captains run away. One ship lost and they bottled! Big time! The Brits stayed there and took it, big time!
Guess you don't have much of a naval tradition, or an army tradition for that matter, still at least your airforce acquitted themselves admirably. By the way, when are you going to get around to replacing all those aircraft?
Guess you don't have much of a naval tradition,
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 06:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That's because they don't have much of a navy...lol
Ah! so good to have naval tradition....
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 07:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But wait a minute this must hurt anyway...
OOps!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tbD7sBDXeM
Oh dear, a British ship fighting in a war!
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 08:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That's never been done before!
But you wouldn't know, would you, tis dangerous outside that harbour, did right to hide in there!
No one thinks you are cowards, much!!!!!!!
11'
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 10:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The ARA General Belgrano was an Argentine Navy cruiser sunk during the Falklands War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKegAqMyFe0
That was nasty and below the belt,
But then again typical evil argy,
How do you recognise an Argentine sailor?
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 10:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0By the broad yellow vertical stripe down the back of his uniform!
Results are all that matter. Battles might be fought or lost.
Apr 02nd, 2015 - 11:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Winner of the War gets to write the History.
1982?
The World Knows The Truth.
There Is Only One History.
Argentina Lost.
Everybody Is Entitled To Their Own Opinions.
No-One Is Entitled To Their Own Facts.
Argentina Fought An Illegal War.
Argentina Lost.
The Falkland Islands Remain British.
Those Facts Remain In Their EntiretyForever.
Nothing Can Change This.
This is why the world consideres Argentina as a 'joke' country.
Sad, but True.
@8 Dannyberger
Apr 03rd, 2015 - 12:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0“I hope this new commander will not cry like Admiral West when the argis sunk his boat in 82...”
As the new commander started his Navy Service in 1987, it is unlikely that he will cry
“ when the argis sunk his boat in 82...”
Our forces are great at running. Italian blood you see.. Run from the Belgrano, run from the paras, surrender at Goose Green etc etc... Useless
Apr 03rd, 2015 - 06:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0I see Think has morphed into a new persona. Playing the long game huh Think?
Apr 03rd, 2015 - 09:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0#8 Yes of course it hurt but when the Belgrano submerged, the Argentinian fleet did the heroic thing and hi-tailed it back to their port and hid there for the duration. Good at rhetoric but also better at running away.... sailing actually.
Apr 03rd, 2015 - 11:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0Your naval pilots were so incompetent that they could not sink either carrier...poor show.
As for heroism, the Super Etandards came in virtually undetected, launched missiles and ran for home. You could compare them to long distance snipers.
Effective but not heroic.
At least the A-4 Skyhawks and Daggers ran the gauntlet and had to pay a heavy price...that took courage.
What was the final result, an ignominious defeat for Argentina.
@Clyde15
Apr 03rd, 2015 - 11:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So can you tell me how Britan lost so many men in the battlefield?
Have the British commited suicide or what?
Still Argies 3 Brits 1 and were so lucky
Dany,
Apr 04th, 2015 - 07:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina lost MORE!!
Have the Argies starved to death or what?
Oops... I guess the conscripts were, at any rate.
#20
Apr 04th, 2015 - 09:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0Back to the old chestnut of the 1800's I see. It's the last battle or the next one that counts.
Argentinian dead in ground combat ..... 201
British dead in ground combat..............150
The British lost men because they had to attack heavily defended positions either across open terrain or in mountains in the dark.
If you spray an area with concentrated gunfire against troops crossing it, you are bound to hit something.
The bottom line is that your lot threw in the towel when they met a more determined foe, even though they had all the advantages.
Yes. some luck came into it as we should not , on paper ,have won, but against all odds, we did. Our men were made of stronger stuff than yours, and still are.
I wonder if our Commander from Dover knows Commodore Brown. Voice/ Think, would the one of you ask him please?
Apr 05th, 2015 - 12:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0He was probably just a wee sprog when the Commander was already campaigning for better service pensions.
Chuckle chuckle.
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