The first days of March I was appointed, was Lt. Cmdr to "smell of supply" because he had new clothes, and it made all the courses for Command, which is Infantry elite, the better. With much sacrifice I made, along with my colleagues, my comrades, and about the first days of March, we were continually training in Mar del Plata base. March 23, when Garcia Quiroga, who was a senior officer, took charge of the guard detachment Amphibian Command, is with a telephone call indicating that the amphibious command and tactical divers had to rush the training, but not know why. Of course, from 23 to 28 was not sleeping. Was to be in the Officers' Casino sleeping with what we call a yellow alert, which is nothing more than sleeping clothes loosening the belt, but with all the weapons. Suddenly, down the hallway shooting a grenade off course and had to be careful. When they said "Shell" around the world for the stairs down. So we went training. March 28 is an order of the commanding heights, we had to embark for an unknown location. The place was unknown to Puerto Belgrano Naval Base. Of course, as new officers and NCOs, we did not have all the information and together we arrive at a single idea: going against Chile. He was always the talk "to the Chileans at gunpoint throw them into the sea." When we reached the base of Puerto Belgrano we stayed at the Battery Company, a company of Marines. There were one and a half, and one night jump the alert. Everyone with their equipment to address the Ship of Cabo San Antonio, a troop transport ship. When they were on the ship, we find that there was an Army rifle company, a company tactical divers, who then made the transfer to the Almirante Irizar, and went boating. Pinned combat lights, ie not the normal light can have a peacetime ship, and said "Let's Chile, were going to beat the Chileans." We already had a few little problems. Total radio silence between us, because the senior officers who did know what would happen, had orders not to say anything. That night navigation sounds a speaker and appears famous Admiral Busser, asking that officials of higher and lower hierarchy to approach what is the dining room of the ship, which normally tells officers' mess. Of course, we were nothing but combat, without any weapons because it was a meeting. When we entered, we were a few, including people's army, the rifle, we find that on the table, where you eat, were all armed. And some words I'll never forget: "Gentlemen, you have a good night, from now you will be part of a page of Argentina's history." He took the canvas, and we took him out to the Falkland Islands. Falkland Islands we cadet cuando estábamos en el Liceo Naval, veníamos escuchando que son Argentinas. Cuando dijo que íbamos a tomar Malvinas, creo que los botones de la cajetilla saltaron de la alegría, porque era un honor, después de tanto tiempo escuchando y estudiando sobre Malvinas, de ser nosotros los que íbamos a tocar pie en tierra. Por supuesto, se hizo toda la planificación del desembarco. En su momento, creíamos que contábamos con la sorpresa de desembarcar, cosa que después no fue tan así, y por supuesto después de una charla de aproximadamente una hora y media, ya sabíamos a qué lugar íbamos a desembarcar y qué era lo que tenía que hacer cada uno. Nos fuimos nuevamente al lugar que teníamos en the vessel.
April
The first type six o'clock would be the landing. Unfortunately, they had to abort because the April 1, we were already in Falklands coast, had an awesome time. Aborted until the storm subsided, it was around 21:30. We were all, as stated in the spree, from time to clean the rifle and the weapon we were spending. For one, of course, it is all a movie of what might happen, what to cover, and all had the order not to have to inflict casualties on the enemy, because it would be a plus for us to treat diplomatically at the negotiating table. We were on alert yellow, caught red alert everyone to the jars. It opened the floodgates to have the ship on the sides, the rubber boats were thrown into the water and there we ninety men, with a total radio silence, because supposedly we had the surprise. I always say that God is a Marine, I know what I mean. I say this because God was with us that night. We arrived in Bahia Harriet and the idea was to land at the bottom, because, of course, was much closer to Puerto Argentino. For a navigational error, landed about five thousand feet before. Giachino Garcia tells Quiroga to give the order to secure the perimeter. Sure, I was the newest officers, the lowest rank, then ordered me to reaffirm the perimeter. Reaffirm perimeter, or secure perimeter, is for those who come behind me to land safe. I first securing the perimeter, land and is ordered to enlarge the perimeter because he had to come to the perimeter Seineldín ours, and in total were 800 men. When I enlarge the order of the perimeter, and listen good, because there are journalists who do not say, we had night vision goggles. A viewer can not use either you can not give a soldier because you have to know how to use. With night sight we were able to find the machine gun nest that was us waiting in the place we were going to land, so I say that God is marine. They were the first prisoners were taken. We regrouped and went for a walk in the Falklands, 25 miles, 35 kilos of backpack with all the weapons, eight degrees below zero and winds of 60 kilometers. It was quite "comfortable" for us. So we went to Puerto Argentino. Once on the road, the section was in charge of Garcia Quiroga is opened, because the idea was to go to the barracks of the Royal Marines to take them by surprise. We continued walking to Puerto Argentino and when they arrived at Moody Brook, which was the headquarters of the Royal Marines, there was nobody. Obviously, Garcia Quiroga think the Royal Marines were all in Puerto Argentino. Hurry the pace, we reached, she tells the news to Pedro Giachino and he determined to open ourselves in battle formation and begin what is called "combat areas", ie door to door, enter, view, and if nothing , follow. That breaks radio silence, given the novelty's flagship was the "Holy Trinity" and have the rest of the troops had to disembark, unloaded. Lieutenant Colonel Seineldín going with your group, take the Stanley Airport and we started to do what is called a working farm to reach the governor's house. I give the order to cover the back perimeter, which in this case was to cover the house governor and his back, because we had reviewed some of the people, not all and did not know that we could find. Garcia Quiroga, a beautiful English, yells at the Governor Hunt knew that the Royal Marines were there, but not quantity. It turns out that they do as in Antarctica, a group outbound and inbound group. The projection is left fifteen days so that the incoming know and get used to the movements of the island. We were double the Marines. Quiroga Garcia asked, in an authoritative voice, to surrender and told they would be treated by the Geneva Convention and Argentina, as of the time, took over the Islands. In response obtained a burst of machine guns. We had orders not to shoot, not to produce low, despite the power we had we were superior. It makes them say, another rafaguita and a sub machine gun that was in the group hit me cry, because we did not have a full deck but had a fence with tamarisk, and says: "Lord, let us because if we stay here we cook at all. " Automatically, Giachino rose in full career, he entered the governor's house, he was shot, fell three or four meters and fell. Quiroga Garcia jumped from his position behind him. The motto of the Amphibious Commandos is "all but behind me forward," which was fulfilled to the letter. Unfortunately, Quiroga Garcia hurt in the arm. Behind him came the nurse held it off the line of fire and so hurt Giachino. Then, Giachino, Mendocino man stood up, took out insurance on a grenade and Middle English in Mendoza, hit the cry that if they did not surrender would explode the grenade. Hunt went out there with all pilchas of time and at that time there was a ceasefire. Wine echándonos "go that you are invading land they do not correspond." Garcia Quiroga, who was wounded in the arm, was the one who was in charge. Giachino brings it to where it had fallen, it takes the Land Rover that was used as an ambulance and takes him to the hospital in Port Stanley. Hunt, shouting, ask to speak with the head of the operation, in this case Busser. It's called Busser radio and within minutes a helicopter landing. Hunt says that must be removed and Busser replied "we were coming to take care of the islands that we were robbed in 1833, which are you going to go. Lay down your attitude" and gave him a time. Hunt came back to the house, which was a strainer because you do not leave a healthy glass, and after a while been saying that deposed the attitude that would be regarded as prisoners of war and would be treated by the Geneva Convention. In one photograph, a young boy that goes to the cost of three orangutans were Royal Marines with their hands up, came in many magazines. Well there is provided for the making of weapons, they did a search, put them in a corner, got the British flag with the utmost respect and got the national flag.
In the meantime give me the news that Pedro (NDR: Giachino) had died on the way to hospital, did not reach the hospital alive. At that point I wanted them to eat with knife and fork of the problem it had. The only thing I managed to do that cost me a challenge, was cut with his sword, a hat with feathers Hunt, who is lying in my house. At that time, cleared the way for troop carrier planes began to land. The marine infantry weapons came all by boat. That gave the order to the entire group had been affected "Operation Rosario" had to go back to the mainland, the islands that were to be 500 troops to guard because it was going to settle diplomatically. I asked Garcia Quiroga permission to stay and told me to return to the mainland, this was going to settle diplomatically. In the meantime, Cape San Antonio was down 450 for color televisions kelpers. Because they kelpers TV 20 to 22 hours by the BBC and showed them what they wanted them. It took two or three days to place the antenna and television had already ATC and other channels. That was proof that we not come here for a gang. The English are a refrigerator. Even had put together a constitution that said the Argentine kelpers were born under the British flag, which therefore had to be treated as the Argentines. So, to give you an example, we put a piece of artillery and he took photos kelpers everywhere. Nobody could say anything because they were Argentines. When they began to fight the Americans, two other day we were flying artillery piece. Permission to I got it to stay Busser directly. He wanted to fulfill the organization as it had been. I should have been enough "fan" because ultimately, we won by fatigue. This April 2nd I had the pleasure to be with him in the Cathedral and said: "Boy, you no longer have to supply more odor!". I had the opportunity to stay and then went to the airport in Port Stanley to tell my group that I had. Automatically off the plane and said "if you become the boss, why not let us be us?". We are left, which put together quite a mess because they had to reprogram all shipments. From then on, our base was Port Stanley and the order was to get into the islands, landowners enter premises and steal as much as arms, radio equipment and other, because there was a possibility that several of the Royal Marines were in plain clothes and did counterintelligence. Which they did. This went on until after the story and became quite heated, began to see planes bombing the Port Stanley. Until then, we went out on expeditions, usually at night, Port Stanley. With the group gendarmerie commands, excellent people and excellent soldiers sometimes went out on patrol together. Once you set foot on the ground tried to infiltrate troops behind them to do something evil, break something or blow something, which we were getting sometimes and sometimes not. Sometimes we went out and we walked intelligence behind enemy lines but not confront, we went to spy to see, to be clear about something they had. They landed with 28,000 men. When the Argentine government was that the gringos are coming, began to send troops. So they went to all sectors of the islands. In schools sometimes ask me starved, is it true that they fed them? While the Yankees were not, we all ate. When they arrived and could not eat with chandeliers in the light of the moon and others. Ate as one might, when the food arrived and the time you left. Field kitchens at the front could not have, because when he was a little fire, then beaten. So the food came from Port Stanley and there were times that did not come, because the terrain of the islands is very hunchback, because moisture is permanent, one is constantly wet feet. So much so that we know us a little better prepared and we had eight or nine pairs of socks. I've already seen in Tierra del Fuego, which is very similar. We knew we were going to Athens. Well, they came. We fight on Mount Kent and came back to Port Stanley, went to Longdon, we returned to Puerto Argentino. Last we give the order to my group get into Mount Kent. And the thing was stripping. At night we went to mine, to lay mines. There was a group of engineers and we will we planted. At one point we had put about 2,500 mines in the Falklands today there are 25,000 mines other than those that were removed. We tried to do what we were taught in school. We put an antitank mine and the mine, other mines, were a star, so if there pisabas anti-tank mine was also going to fly. We find that ... that was my mistake. When one end has to leave two options for output: Plan A and Plan B. I made the plan A. We were out on that side and we found that we were waiting for gringos. We landed with ninety men, but we were ninety-one. That was one more four-legged. Fumo called. Siberia was a dog four years old, who accompanied me on a campaign in Antarctica. In some ways it was a multipurpose dog, so he could lead a sledge to make military action. A lap repair a plastic explosive time, put it in the nose and there was. She was trained for that, leave the pack and go. Gringos realized it was not a gift and I estimate that should be killed at that time, I do not flown in an explosion. She also is a hero of the Falklands. Today in the Marine Circle has a pedestal, was promoted to second corporal. We, and when things became more fierce, we had three match points. The paratroopers, the Welsh Guards and a group of Gurkhas, we played to us. Robacio asked me to put an artillery observer. I send a little boy who had just left the Infantry School, and just sent it to him because as good fresh out of Infantry School, as I also happened to me, was to sing the coordinates and where I had to point the Our artillery. And she did, until unfortunately did an intersection radio and put a mortar. That boy is alive today, missing both legs, working on the Liberty building. When I see the explosion, tell my second: "A Henry gave a mortar, stand by me leap to my position." For that we were within gunshot, they are 60 or 70 meters. Low and when I arrive I meet the officer dead and him with a torn leg and the other had disappeared, and the screams. I try to serve you best, I put it behind me and went up the canyon, but when I'm in the middle, had infiltrated a group of the Welsh Guards. Were three and one I jump with a sword bayonet, when I see it only thing I managed was to raise his hand and shoot. I came with my gun in my hand because I was shooting and my teammates were covering. When they see that makes me go, because I was ahead, my colleagues do the heavy fire is called, or where they were, then shot. Of course, they had to replicate. My companions fell and we arrived at our position. This boy sent him to Puerto Argentino, which of course did not come because he found a part of people who already went to Port Stanley to meet and then realizes the Ferrero out that Argentina had caved. When you return gives us the news and I give the news to Robacio, which was the side of us when it was the center of the battlefield, and I said "can not be, if we have been screwing with sticks." What it was true. We'd been back four or five times. We get the news that Argentina had given up and said "can not be that we surrender" and we ended up fighting until the last ammunition. For this, we began a phased withdrawal, together with people of the glorious "C" Army Corps, which carried a marvel. Well, here we go to Puerto Argentino and before we throw the weapons into the sea because they are not going to let the gringos. The only one who had his service weapon was Captain Robacio. I, of course, I was blindfolded and his nose was hanging. I have made five operations in the face, the last one in the U.S.. I go to Port Stanley on a stretcher, but I find that when entering Robacio Stanley, singing the Marine Corps march!, Is presented to a senior in English, gives the gun and the British commander in a ceremony of honor, he returned the gun and says he was "pleased and proud to have fought with the BIM 5." There
to move me, I lose the connection with my group. Take me to a field hospital that was staffed by physicians Argentine and British doctors, when they saw me I was sent to Irizar icebreaker, at that time was as a hospital ship. When I saw made me take the Irizar Stanley Airport to go to the mainland. It did that, I brought to the continent and ended up in the Hospital de Mayo, the most pampered of all. That's my story of the Falklands. With regard to food, Lieutenant Colonel down, we were all in the same well. We were all cold, we were all hungry, but not because there was no food. It was because the food had to make a journey to get to the front and sometimes because there was a yellow alert for the bombing, or whatever, the trucks had to leave the road and were stuck. Back came the kitchen with food and the "soldiers" drew the pots and foxes reached the pit, but they turned and fell because she was cold. But it was not because they lacked. I always say that there was human suffering and acts of heroism, but not everything was "Enlightened by Fire", can I explain?. It was not all "poor soldiers" because it denigrates the poor soldier. "The boy in the war" was to put what I had, which was the heart and soul and fought as best man and the best soldier. We all know that there were people staked. Animals, not to say the least, that those people staked outside of the Armed Forces because they were reported, including one I denounced. There was a "brave" Lieutenant, I will not name names, he had two 105 mm guns in charge, with all staff. A sentry who had advance: "Sir, sir, no movement of troops from the front, one night. Instead of going to investigate whether they were friendly or enemy, no better idea to take out the grenade Espuelita. Broke two pieces of artillery and withdrew. The group that was in front was ours. But as I tell them that I can say that Robacio Captain, who was head of a battalion, which could be in a bunker in the middle of a bombing of a frigate was with the pot of hot stew foxhole, per well fox. Then, take stock. There were many errors. I also I made errors, such as the minefield that killed me a bitch, thank God they were not human lives. Like I have 24 colleagues who have died and the sad part is that died after Argentina had surrendered because they kept fighting. Then, I get upset when they say "the soldiers of the war" as if they were poor things. No. They are proud to have gone, although many do bad press, but I think that if we do a survey, 85 percent of those who went to Falkland want to return, because there is a pending matter. We fought so we knew we were going to fight, although many say they had no experience. Put it that puts the Argentine thing the British did not know where I was, and that for a soldier is worth much, because he believes what he is doing. Many mistakes were made. Air Force, which had an outstanding performance has made the mistake of not going to bomb the logistics, because you could very well be the best or the best corvette ship-art, but if that ship does not give food, you'll having to go paddling. That is, if they had stuck to logistical support, they ran out war against the English. Because if they did not take the 14 (NRD: June), they had to go to grab the oars. Because they had to do. Moreover, much of the British soldiers ended up pulling our guns, because had no ammunition. They say that our rifles were crap. Do you know why they were crap?. Why not let them rest. I've seen FAL pipes that were bent like this finger, the amount of fire he was doing. I've seen pieces of artillery fire by the lack of that was done, because artillery was requested from all sides, and tried to supply what we asked, were out of operation for the amount, because there was a lack of fire. The artillery itself was a lack of shot to make the mechanisms of the chilled barrel. In this case it was not. It was pulling, pulling and pulling. So much so that there is an American strategist that says that what was thrown in the Falklands in 72 days, was thrown into a year in Vietnam. So imagine what could have been. So, I repeat, I do brawl when they say "the kids of war." The boys began the war they had to put and keep us suffer not only because the Americans also had the same problem with food than us. For there was a sheep and ate our meals there, but I had to grab the sheep that, you know how they run? To them it was the same, except for a couple of battalions that had been brought as the last generation, a field kitchen that was electric. Here, for example, while I was in Port Stanley on the first turn to start making breakfast for you at the front began at two o'clock. Finished to cross those areas and three o'clock began to make food for lunch, and so on. The kitchens of our campaigns had a major pot heated with wood, but some was covered with liquid glycerin. Had to heat the glycerin to heat the pot and that will be cooking. In no Malvinas tree. It was used for peat and peat fire must be well canchero because usually wet. Sometimes there comes a time to boiling glycerine and what was cooking was spread from glycerin and food that was lost. That food could not go to the soldier. There was a barbarian skull, that is the vitality that is the Argentine, who disarmed a field kitchen, left the pot alone, made a parrillón, put it up there and ran out the glycerin, and we eat around the world. With this warming, until they arrived there was no fighting. Because we ran with that as well, where we made a little fire we had two hundred things we were targeting. I pointed to the sea, you pointed up, I pointed to the sides. I think he did what he could, so I feel anger when they say "children of war." There is a "child of war" you know what he did?, Put with a 12.7 with his tripod, and said "Lieutenant, take my teammates, all I do not know how to read or write and I have no family." Decreased half a battalion of the Parachute 42! This was my experience in the Falklands.
rope, dancing, appears and disappears from the stage, costume changes, sing ... interacted well with the public, and it was quite nice, but always with diva attitude. 
