The new Chairman of the Falkland Islands Trusts (FIT) is Air Commodore Peter Johnson, OBE, BA, FIMGt, former Commander of British Forces in the Falkland Islands (CBFFI) in 1994 and 1995. He succeeds Captain Paddy Vincent CBE, RN (ret), who was born in the Falkland Islands.
Several people whose achievements were recognised in the United Kingdom New Year Honours have links to the Falkland Islands and to South America.
There can't be too many people who have been awarded medals by both sides in the same war. This is the story of one who has.
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Britain's most senior Military officer has laid a wreath at the Argentine War Cemetery in the Falkland Islands.
The Falklands Government has given permission for an Argentine national, 49 year old Martin Rappalini, to land a twin-engined Piper Aerostar aircraft at Port Stanley airport ? the first Argentine registered aircraft to land in Stanley since hostilities ended in 1982.
Argentine and Chilean navies are coordinating a close air and sea monitoring operation of the British flag Pacific Swan and its deadly radioactive cargo, as it sails along the South Atlantic coast, Drake Sea and into the Pacific.