at stanley airport. port stanley was an absolute minefield. it was. i would say chaos. there were weapons in the backs of houses, on the road, anybody and everybody was coming ashore and they were all after souvenirs, whether they be pistols, bayonets. i mean, somebody there was a helicopter landed on the road, argentine somebody had gone there with a hacksaw and actually sawed it was a perfectly serviceable aircraft before had gone there with a hacksaw and actually sawn off the joystick as a souvenir. i mean, you know. anyway, it was chaos. so we, i say we what was left of our battalion, which probably was about 200 of us were put into stanley, and i was the sort of the sheriff of stanley, for want of a better
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