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First Lieutenant Márquez and Sergeant Blas from the 2nd Assault Section, had around 11 am local time on 30 May, [8] shown great personal courage and leadership in the patrol battle that took place on Bluff Cove Peak and were posthumously awarded the Argentine Nation to the Valour in Combat Medal. The Argentine Commandos under Captain Fernandez had literally stumbled on a camp occupied by 15 SAS troopers. [9] [10] Likewise. If you want to call the islands Las Malvinas, well that's fine by me...Equally you shouldn't be to perturb if i call them The Falklands Islands.. Reassessing the Fighting Performance of Conscript Soldiers during the Malvinas/Falklands War (1982) by Alejandro L. Corbacho Baldini was later heavily criticized by veterans for being indifferent and selfish toward his men, although this seems to have come from several petulant soldiers who failed to appreciate his efforts to keep them alive in difficult conditions. [24]

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Wouldn't the British and Argentinian warships and support vessels inside or outside the "zone" be subject to be subject to the conventions and customs of war at sea under international law? I left Adrian's response because it answers the question succintly and hopefully no further posts need to appear on that particular issue. Two Sides of Hell - They Spent Weeks Killing Each Other, Now Soldiers From Both Sides of The Falklands War Tell Their StoryLa historia de dos ex enemigos en Malvinas frente a frente - Edición Impresa". Archived from the original on 3 April 2012 . Retrieved 18 January 2014.

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That same night, another 8-man section (under Corporal Oscar Nicolás Albornoz-Guevara), from the 4th Regiment's C Company on nearby Two Sisters Mountain, attempted to map out the British positions in the Estancia House area; but British lookouts detected this force and 3 PARA's Mortar Platoon repelled the Argentine patrol. [42] VGM Jorge “Beto” Altieri: “Yo defendí a la Patria y la Patria no me defiende… Yo necesito a la Patria…” killed, wounded and captured (including 2 killed, 6 wounded and 5 captured at Top Malo House, according to the Argentinians) [1] The SAS finally managed to surround the main commando group, consolidating into a position near the peak, and ambushed them with one of those devastating, explosive onslaughts of automatic fire and GPMG fire for which the regiment is famous. IMHO no-one here who has not served, including me, has the RIGHT to call down ANYONE who has.......VGM Jorge "Beto" Altieri: "Yo defendí a la Patria y la Patria no me defiende… Yo necesito a la Patria…"BAHIANOTICIAS.COM 02/04/2009 At their San Miguel del Monte training camp the 7th Regiment companies prepared for a possible war against Chile and carried out helicopter drills with the 601st Combat Aviation Battalion. [13] Approximately fifty members of the 7th Regiment fought more resolutely than the rest and shared their skills, having been put through a commando course organized by commando-trained Major Oscar Jaimet, [14] the Operations Officer of the 6th Infantry Regiment (RI 6). Private Jorge Altieri in an interview after the war told how he trained hard (under training organized by Drill-Sergeant Pedro Maciel Reyes [15]) with B Company: Other rumours about 'war crimes' by both sides are just that: rumours. It was a relatively 'neat' conflict and it has been possible to establish the circumstances in which almost all the casualties met their deaths with enough certainty to be sure that war crimes were extremely rare.