Falklands Experiences 1986 as seen by CO 3 Para

[@jimmyhillschin9987]

The platoon commander's account is riveting. You can see him recoiling at the horror at times, but he pauses, then continues his account. Much love and respect to him and all his colleagues, and to the families of those who didn't return.

[@marshallsimmons56]

Great job was done considering all the circumstances, makes me extremely proud .

[@barbschapman1752]

To all the fighting men of 3 Commando Brigade, who deployed, fought & did not return. Respect. RIP

[@danielwoodruffe2938]

Lt. Col (then) H.W.R. Pike, The Parachute Regiment: an outstanding leader; little wonder he went on to be Commandant, School of Infantry and ended his career as a 3-Star General.

[@JoeRUGBY10]

Tremendous effort and sacrifice . RIP to the fallen.

[@studmalexy]

why didn't they just go in under cover of darkness with night vision goggles?

[@snowflakemelter1172]

@@studmalexy why didn't they use laser sharks ?

[@davidspencer7254]

Very few IR were available and only two or three were "portable".

[@JeremyStone-HK]

I knew Mark Cox well. We were at Sandhurst at the same time. Mark did well and earned the respect of his soldiers at Mount Longdon. He was Mentioned in Despatches for his leadership and drive during the battle for Mount Longdon.

[@highstakes1235]

What unit did you serve in Sir?

[@paulmcdonough1093]

stewart mclaughlin was in his section he was the driving force he deserved the v c

[@ilovesmysangsomsangsom3500]

@@paulmcdonough1093 Cpl McLaughlin was recommended by his Platoon Commander then his CO for the Military Medal, why he never got it is beyond words. Disgraceful.

[@rightmarker1]

The Parachute Regiment and the Royal Marine Commandos closely followed by the Guards Brigades are always the formations who get stuck in first. They represent the very best of the Army tradition of guts and determination - their NCOs are the backbone led by the best Sandhurst trained cadres of officers. Love and respect to you all - the living and the dead. I salute you.

[@georgemorley1029]

Yes but the Royal Marines are in fact the Royal Navy’s light infantry. To some it is seemingly a minor distinction, as they are also engaged in soldiering, but they would be keen to emphasise that they are not an Army formation, specialising as they do in some very different roles to the airborne and guards regiments.

[@paulmcdonough1093]

@@georgemorley1029 falklands was suppose to be a royal marine show and it never was 2 and 3 para took major objectives

[@JohnDoe-tw8es]

Those guys are all heroes in my view. To endure all that kind of fighting takes real skill and courage. Sad to see there were so many casualties...

[@Relay300]

Unique insight, thanks for uploading

[@paulmcdonough1093]

I met Jimmy Oconnel who was in 3 Para wounded on Mount Longdon as a great book out

[@Crimetvuk]

I’ve spoken to him via message and he seems like a really nice fella

[@douglasarthur2673]

Fascinating as it recounts the 'operational actualité ' as opposed to the normal documentary style ie opinions and interpretations. As Mrs T. said at the time, we congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@Plumduff3303]

And all the PTSD afterwards...so sad

[@stephenhathaway269]

Charismatic and articulate Rupert

[@paulsummerfield6357]

Many thanks to their sacrifice RIP

[@zdzichus.3264]

I recon this is a real gem in a sea of docs... And for all my foreign friends: - this is how a proper English language sounds (and sings, and signs) :-) Greetings

[@dacosta0656]

Zdzichu S. This is the Queen's English, cuz Americans don't sound this fruity

[@patrickkelly7085]

Well I beg to differ, I am glad the folks who live in my part of England sound nothing like the narrator of this video.

[@Climpus]

@@patrickkelly7085 Are you, and why is that?

[@CheersDits2979]

I’ve been a commando now for 9 years and I know how hard it is yomping for days on end but what these guys did was truly an outstanding effort. All I can keep thinking is that their feet must of been in clip. It made me laugh when the CO said the young lads were surprised when end ex wasn’t called after 5 days 😆 29:00 The young Rupert hiding his laugh about his men covered in shite 😆

[@paultreynolds]

Steady on, lad. Paras tab, they don't yomp. ;)

[@phmwu7368]

@@paultreynolds Your Own Marching Pace !

[@edcarson3113]

@@phmwu7368 Tactical Advance to Battle

[@nickmiller21]

@@paultreynolds tab is just a quicker version

[@jameswatson8316]

Takes me back to my Army days.

[@hs2270]

An articulate and seriously harrowing account, it’s astonishing what this young platoon commander and his men went through. Many of whom were in their late teens and early twenties. I hope they are doing well now. Utrinque Paratus!

[@jfizzle9415]

I've read his book,he's from a long line of military service in his family,respect.

[@blackdog8932]

Hero’s. We will remember them.

[@liamphillips2967]

Bootnecks of 45cdo and other fighting units were a vital part of the brig that fought the Argy. Talking about Cpl Thompson’s section surrendering as cowardice is pathetic, they obliterated the invading force at South Georgia for as long as necessary before yes surrendering and rejoining the Marines on the Falklands not a few weeks later. The paras fought hard and like warriors as did the Royals, there is a rivalry but calling the elite cowards for something anyone would do when thinking about fighting in a logical way. Fucking scrogs that weren’t even there behave 😂

[@uselessbastard4259]

Liam Phillips X box brigade make very good war critics.

[@fidelmontagu7262]

Parachute Regiment / Royal Marines. One statement, fearless in battle...

[@gordion1]

It was sad but not surprising that the politicians wanted a result without providing the proper protection. Sustained artillery support and many more law' s would have reduced casualties to the minimum.Especially Goose Green

[@craigross341]

The Argentines are quite something. The Argentines are Italians who pushed the native South Americans off their land. They've got some nerve saying that there's a question mark over the status of the Falklands. You couldn't make it up.

[@Ok-551]

Exactly. People need to study Argentine history before they pass judgement. Their founders were genocidal, and were too busy expanding their frontier when the British resettled in 1833.

[@aviationiceman9549]

Craig Ross was it not the Spanish ?

[@craigross341]

@@aviationiceman9549 You'd guess so - it was over most of South America - but not Argentina. It was more recent than the Spanish, and Italian.

[@duncanedwards7840]

@@aviationiceman9549 50 +% are of Italian descent, 56% I believe. You've got a % of Germans etcetera to add into the amount before proclaiming the rest Spanish, & Cornish, and Welsh, there was a Welsh descent lad working communications at Government House for the occupying Argie forces, forget his name but it was something as Welsh as 'Alun Jones' :) & the Cornish, my mate I call 'Argie Dave' (Richard Couch/Dickie Sofa) for one, here in Dobwalls Cornwall, one of his grandparents at least is Argentinian born, of British descent. D'em Cornish get all over the place:), he's still got some kind of leaden and fibre cosh, which is lethal, his family had in Argentina, I guess to keep the 'peasants down' - maybe one's of native Patagonian descent or Itie or Spanish, who knows.

[@kidmack3556]

And they cheat at football and bribe FIFA officials.

[@apoptotichyalinecell]

12:42 lol.

[@craigross341]

The 66mm LAW was useful, but the Carl Gustav tended to migrate to company HQ because it was too heavy. Indeed. 36lbs with the scope. Ludicrous. And an aluminium one - half the weight - was available, but penny pinching meant buying the steel one. The US has used Carl Gustav in Afghanistan because if you fire a load of rounds you get the benefit - gun plus many rounds is lighter than the same number of fire and throw away weapons. Vincent Bramley's Excusion to Hell (IIRC) is a good read on the reality of combat chaos.

[@recce8619]

B Company had a tough battle and the casualties were some of the heaviest for the UK. Interesting comment about should have used house clearing tactics. Hope that insight was quickly passed around the brigades for the battles to come. Doesn't really matters that they were facing conscripts. They were all conscripts and they were in very well prepared position with machine guns. And the Paras were as young as 17. They did a very difficult job with professionalism.

[@ianmangham4570]

The fitter you are the chance of surviving major trauma increases, and us brits don't fk around, R.I.P

[@JeremyStone-HK]

Where is part 2 of this video account? I would love to see it.

[@SNP-1999]

I have just watched a video called "The Falklands War - The Battle of Mount Longdon" in which a group of five Falklands War veterans from 3 Paras were interviewed to tell their stories, which were extremely interesting. The trouble was with the interviewer - he got so damned sensationalistic it was hard to watch. I think he would have loved to ask "Tell us, what was it like to bayonet another man? Did he scream as the blade went in?" - that was my impression anyway, it was quite annoying. What the idiot obviously did not understand was that some of his questions were obviously disturbing for the veterans - they had lost friends that night and while they had obviously agreed to be there and answer questions, I think some at least were not happy with the way the thing was being conducted. I would have commented there but comments were turned off - maybe for good reason? I can imagine that other viewers got angry as well and would have spoken their mind.

[@pajodato5339]

I'm argentinian and the same question is produced by some sensasionalistic interviewers asking former conscript Ledesma in G.Green. "How was to kill Col. Jones? Did he scream?" WTF. Show some respect for the soldier.

[@stephenmears3064]

@THE Don Spaghetti & Ravioli bellend

[@stephenmears3064]

@THE Don Spaghetti & Ravioli idiot

[@sunrayisdown1690]

Good start by showing photo of Royal Marines ?

[@craigross341]

It sounds absolutely horrendous. I think there was definitely a feeling after this that the Parachute Regiment had done more than their share, and it was someone else's turn to do a big deliberate attack. No wonder.

[@brianford8493]

Hats off to the Maroon Machine!

[@scotty20040]

Has Mr Cox got a tooth abscess? His RS of his boat race looks swollen.

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

Well it was around the time of the jawbreaker gobstoppers 😆

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

Flaming hot

[@feolender2938]

God I so badly want a no deal brexit.

[@snowflakemelter1172]

You do not want to be on the receiving end of a Para reg SF GPMG post.

[@darrenpaech1342]

Very interesting

[@jonbritland8389]

Just goes to show standards are the same as 2ww hard professional soldiers. Thank God in this day and age of lowering standards the Paras are Great Britain.

[@Mizone505]

Why so many pics and videos of royal marines and not 3 para?

[@mindyourownbusinessfatty]

Because the Royal Marines are posers not fighting soldiers

[@M2M-matt]

2 Para as well. They made up the biggest element of airborne troops on the islands.

[@agohelliwell6755]

Mr .Creosote WOW ! WHAT A TERRIBLE THING TO SAY Did someone take yer dinner money when you was a kid ?????? To say something like that about a FINE body of men tells me something has gone wrong in you're life and has effected you're mental being !!

[@mindyourownbusinessfatty]

As a Falklands veteran. I know how quick the Royal Marines are too surrender. FACT

[@mindyourownbusinessfatty]

UTRINQUE PARATUS

[@Ok-551]

Good lads

[@ianjarrett2724]

The Paras were and are the 'spearhead' of the British Army. Anyone who comes up against them will know what being in battle is!

[@M2M-matt]

The Falklands conflict was in 1982 not 1986!

[@KenpoSlice]

Matthew Think that's when the documentary was released.

[@bobgladstone4104]

The conflict was indeed in 1982 but this interview was recorded in 1986

[@eugeniocantagalli3498]

The truth is that you had to cover so many miles on foot is because the Argentinian sunk the Atlantic conveyor with all the helicopters and supplies

[@duncanedwards7840]

And ?

[@eugeniocantagalli3498]

@@duncanedwards7840 Nothing, just to state that was not a easy task and the British forces faced very critical moments...back then it seemed that all the expedition was and easy matter, instead I guess at one point the situation was far to be under control...

[@williammorley2401]

Eugenio Cantagalli, yes indeed, that makes it all the more impressive that the British still managed to kick Argentine ass!

[@kastor5847]

Anybody talking about ass kicking knows nothing about this war. British forces took more than 1000 casualties (255 KIA, 777 WIA) during a single month of fight. And I do not speak about the massive materiel losses. Against a third world conscript army. It was no picnic, ask a vet about it.

[@julast6658]

12;43 freeze the film and ask yourself - Did hi catch that Burgan bag?

[@jfizzle9415]

RULE BRITANNIA!!!!!

[@marcosluisalbertomartinez9232]

Las Malvinas son y serán argentinas y volveremos a recuperarlas 💪🇦🇷👈

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

You ran away 😂

[@philipfrow3106]

Look forward to a rematch next time you have a dictator and hyperinflation

[@roncruz6089]

Man shut the hell up you are nothing more than a keyboard warrior. Go play more call of duty. You haven't even served in your country but you blowing all this hot air about fighting. I'm certain you are a millenial awoke leftie who does all he can to avoid serving in your military and rather have someone else do your fighting. Shucks !! you are all noise but no action. GTFOH.

[@neilpunt9052]

You had your chance to hold onto the Islands but didn't fight hard enough!!

[@Jeffybonbon]

No Para band now

[@malcolmlaxton-blinkhorn5847]

It was amusing to see during the clips that it was the green berets (Royal Marines) the chap narrating this for the Paras sounds like a (BAR SOLDIER) bit of a Tosser

[@Noname47122]

What exactly is amusing about it?

[@markhunt7531]

You can surrender from KZbin if you feel threatened Carlos

[@stevie8194]

The Falklands war was 1982 not 1986.

[@uselessbastard4259]

Stevie It was 1986,I was there.

[@motormech1h343]

Falklands war was 1982 not 86

[@irvsstella]

BLAH, BLAH, BLAH you'll never be a Royal Engineer, love ya xxx

[@carloscantori4114]

Volveremos viva. La. Patria rimec. 24. Dios. Patria. O. Muerte

[@raquelalvarez356]

PREPOTENCIA SOBERBIA CON UN PAÍS ENDEUDADO ECONÓMICAMENTE CULTURAL LAS FAKLANS

[@john07973]

Top Men

[@malbig2344]

I'm surprised at the route. my Marine training taut us to never be obvious where where the routemight be. This route seems obvious.

[@paolavilela2180]

No picnic exocet argentina. .

[@Pablo-wf6ev]

"The Argentines made us bleed" * Video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHXFdYume8pkqpo

[@jimmyhillschin9987]

not enough.

[@mranonymous2830]

Not that much though

[@Pablo-wf6ev]

THE LOVE SHIP!!!! ibb.co/iN17FK

[@fernandoa.andrada3778]

Las Malvinas son y serán Argentinas!!

[@damienelliott4906]

🤣

[@damienelliott4906]

Clearly not

[@damienelliott4906]

Dick head! 🤣

[@fernandoa.andrada3778]

@@damienelliott4906 que te pasa pelotudo??? 😠😡

[@fernandoa.andrada3778]

@@damienelliott4906 idiota estupido!!!

[@leo-zj2vu]

Malvinas Argentina🇦🇷💪

[@snowflakemelter1172]

I've looked at the map and its still British , sorry old chap.

[@derektaylor6389]

it is falklands

[@karlchuckberry]

I love watching these videos then looking at the comments for bent out of shape Argies lol. When they say, paras only fight conscripts etc etc. Their Air Force wasn’t conscripts. But got hammered by the Harriers. And always forget to mention the SAS where running around Argentina itself, lobbing grenades at their planes. And also them conscripts had Argentine special forces with them.

[@jasonhughes1674]

Jajajaja

[@themanftheworld8439]

FALKLANDS BRITAIN 🇫🇰🇬🇧🤍