I was two years too young to go at the time, my Brother in Law was down there, and it severely changed him. I went down there after the war in 1984, as did most new recruits at the time.
One of the exercises we did, was to march the route 45 Commando took, from Port San Carlos, to Port Stanley. The exersice took us 4 days in (peace) time, around 125km's, up hill and down dale all the way. A journey which took 45 commando 2 weeks to complete under battle conditions.
We visited some of the conflict areas, most of which had not been cleared of the debris from the day it happened, which was quite eery.
Just seems funny to think now that most of the poor islanders down there now are quite oil rich
