Thread by @PinguiDeQ

@WarDiaryF82
In this way, I would like to close my humble participation in the posts during the days of the Malvinas Campaign.
Thanking everyone who has read the stories with so much respect and admiration for our military.

These are some words said on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the baptism of fire of the Argentine Air Force

A few words

I will speak to them with my heart and with my feelings because they are the best speakers in these circumstances and I will do so without keeping silent.

We must not ignore that while we were writing the glory pages of our contemporary military history,

we were victims of the folly, ambition, and irresponsibility of a few who later turned their backs on us and thereby empowered the attitude of our adversaries and not to mention the betrayal of some neighboring country. But so are wars and their miseries.

The premise of a war to deter and defend was not fulfilled. Do not be deterred, do not defend yourself by attacking and attacking madly without measuring the consequences of improvisation, nor of the hasty and inconsistent decisions in pursuit of the undeniable interests of

their mentors, who end up being those who do not receive the bullets on their bodies.

The fight was very cruel and unequal and we faced it with honor and courage. We leave that legacy to future generations of fighter pilots.

We were dazzled by the actions of young pilots who one day had to go into combat against the most dangerous and sophisticated enemy that any aviator in the world has ever challenged.
They did it with confidence, with sober elegance and from the hand of God.

Our planes were vehicles and instruments of the offering of one of the highest blood quotas.
We train them as officers and knights, we train them as fighter pilots and with immense sadness, their companions lost them as brothers and we, their bosses, as our children.

At each mission he prayed: "My God, do not deprive me of another child"

We teach them how to live, they taught us something much more important: how to die for La Patria and who teaches how to die teaches how to live.

For this reason, rather than with pain, I prefer to remember them with nostalgia, with melancholy that is the most serene of sadnesses. And when we are about to fall, they will present themselves to us as angels and

will remind us of that trilogy for a beautiful life: duty, honor and Homeland. Don't let us down. My agenda has many crosses and they are the ones that remind me of this on a daily basis.

They won’t be forgotten and their memories prevail. It is not worth living without a cause to die for.
When I am no longer in this world, I ask you to remember me next to them, in the most modest place, at the bottom of the list, not because I deserve it, nor at your height,

but to remember me as someone who I carry them in my heart and it wants to stay forever in yours.
This hawk has nine wounds on his chest (r.n. : each one for the fallen of Group 5) that will never heal, but he also has a drop of blood in his beak and he does not hide it because

he knows that a brave warrior is one who knows how to cry openly.
Even with his tears, this wounded Falcon retains the fierceness of his gaze: alert, defiant and fierce. ready to strike again in the next battle.

See you always. May God bless us and Long Live The Homeland

Commodore (VGM) Mr Ernesto Dubourg
Squad Leader II
Grupo 5 de Caza