The Last Classic War
_Freddy_
Apr 11 2013
ARGENTVS
To be fair yes Brit troops did aquire Argentine boots (although many seemed to be of US origin as well).
Where they came from is difficult to say, some were undoubtedly taken from Bodies, some swapped with prisoners, many were picked up from discarded equipment as well.
When my unit was there in 1983 a year after the conflict the boots they got were from captured Argentinian stocks that were still there alomg with much other equipment.
Brit troops were issued with two pairs of boots how many were the Argentinians troops issued?
To be fair yes Brit troops did aquire Argentine boots (although many seemed to be of US origin as well).
Where they came from is difficult to say, some were undoubtedly taken from Bodies, some swapped with prisoners, many were picked up from discarded equipment as well.
When my unit was there in 1983 a year after the conflict the boots they got were from captured Argentinian stocks that were still there alomg with much other equipment.
Brit troops were issued with two pairs of boots how many were the Argentinians troops issued?
ARGENTVS
Apr 11 2013
1 each 6 months, in Malvinas if they were destroyed they could be replaced.
The argentine boots are argentines, it has no point for the army import em while the country has one of the leather industrys more importants in the world. The Army has the Military Sastrery, many uniforms and boots come from there even today, i used em in the officers academy, obvios each one can buy new uniforms and confortable boots from private manufactures, national and imported. I was told today that our officers are very in love with some brasilians boots and other from US from a private company but those are very very very expensive, oposite to the brasilians. When Brazil troops due exercises with our armed forces use to bring here these boots to exchange for other things.
The argentine boots are argentines, it has no point for the army import em while the country has one of the leather industrys more importants in the world. The Army has the Military Sastrery, many uniforms and boots come from there even today, i used em in the officers academy, obvios each one can buy new uniforms and confortable boots from private manufactures, national and imported. I was told today that our officers are very in love with some brasilians boots and other from US from a private company but those are very very very expensive, oposite to the brasilians. When Brazil troops due exercises with our armed forces use to bring here these boots to exchange for other things.
_Freddy_
Apr 14 2013
ARGENTVS, on Apr 11 2013 - 15:05, said:
1 each 6 months, in Malvinas if they were destroyed they could be replaced.
The argentine boots are argentines, it has no point for the army import em while the country has one of the leather industrys more importants in the world. The Army has the Military Sastrery, many uniforms and boots come from there even today, i used em in the officers academy, obvios each one can buy new uniforms and confortable boots from private manufactures, national and imported. I was told today that our officers are very in love with some brasilians boots and other from US from a private company but those are very very very expensive, oposite to the brasilians. When Brazil troops due exercises with our armed forces use to bring here these boots to exchange for other things.
The argentine boots are argentines, it has no point for the army import em while the country has one of the leather industrys more importants in the world. The Army has the Military Sastrery, many uniforms and boots come from there even today, i used em in the officers academy, obvios each one can buy new uniforms and confortable boots from private manufactures, national and imported. I was told today that our officers are very in love with some brasilians boots and other from US from a private company but those are very very very expensive, oposite to the brasilians. When Brazil troops due exercises with our armed forces use to bring here these boots to exchange for other things.
Lol things never change in any army, we always swap rations and bits of kit with whoever we are working with. Seems no matter what, other nations always have shinier items than yourself or maybe just the bragging rights that you have German Para Boots etc even if they are not particularly better.
Brit troops have always bought their own equipment to supplement the issued kit, I suppose it is the same in most armies who deploy regularly.
The only time I served alongside Argentine troops was when they joined the UN on the buffer zone in Cyprus and did joint patrols in 1994.
Efir_70
Apr 26 2013
I have to say as an ex British soldier, this entire thread is very interesting. Hopefully peeps can keep their handbag swipes to a minimum to delay the inevitable thread lock. 
When i did my training, not long after the war, many of my instructors were Falklands vets. Mostly Welsh, Scots guards and a few paras. They generally didn't like to say too much of what they had been through. One of them, a big burly Welsh Guardsman used to take great delight in trying to put a full pair of Army socks in your mouth if anything was wrong with your locker in inspections, he-he.
I remember serving with the UN in Cyprus alongside the Argentine Army. It was in 95, so obviously it was interesting to be in close proximity to someone who a few years earlier would have been classed as your enemy. They seemed a really nice bunch of gents. We never had any animosity towards one another. They were very interested in seeing our SA80's as they were still using their FAL's. If i remember rightly, none of the ones they had were set to go full auto, maybe it was just the ones i had a look at. They were very smart, carried themselves well and seemed a really professional bunch. Although they could never outmatch a British Tom in the bar!
Our Commanding officer and theirs were also Falklands vets, they got on well with one another i seem to remember.
The image of the burning Invincible made me laugh, with the wake of the ship going one way and the smoke from the fire going out at 90 degrees to the ship without slippage. Art student hard fail!
Edited by Efir_70, Apr 26 2013 - 14:33.
When i did my training, not long after the war, many of my instructors were Falklands vets. Mostly Welsh, Scots guards and a few paras. They generally didn't like to say too much of what they had been through. One of them, a big burly Welsh Guardsman used to take great delight in trying to put a full pair of Army socks in your mouth if anything was wrong with your locker in inspections, he-he.
I remember serving with the UN in Cyprus alongside the Argentine Army. It was in 95, so obviously it was interesting to be in close proximity to someone who a few years earlier would have been classed as your enemy. They seemed a really nice bunch of gents. We never had any animosity towards one another. They were very interested in seeing our SA80's as they were still using their FAL's. If i remember rightly, none of the ones they had were set to go full auto, maybe it was just the ones i had a look at. They were very smart, carried themselves well and seemed a really professional bunch. Although they could never outmatch a British Tom in the bar!
Our Commanding officer and theirs were also Falklands vets, they got on well with one another i seem to remember.
The image of the burning Invincible made me laugh, with the wake of the ship going one way and the smoke from the fire going out at 90 degrees to the ship without slippage. Art student hard fail!
Edited by Efir_70, Apr 26 2013 - 14:33.
