MHF - Hockey Thread

[Montegriffo]

Australian. SASR. Based at Nui Dat with 1st Australian Task Force, Vung Tau province, from 1966 to 1971

Rocking the SLR. That's what my Action Man doll had.

That's what we used when I first joined, then we switched to the AR15 (C7) at the end of the 80's

Yeah, I think it's what my father was issued with when he did his NS in Malaysia '58 - '60. Not something you see in war films very often.
Used right up to the Falklands war.

[Smitty-48]

Rocking the SLR. That's what my Action Man doll had.

That's what we used when I first joined, then we switched to the AR15 (C7) at the end of the 80's

Yeah, I think it's what my father was issued with when he did his NS in Malaysia '58 - '60. Not something you see in war films very often.
Used right up to the Falklands war.

Belgian FN FAL a.k.a The Right Arm of the Free World. It was the Commonwealth Rifle from the 50's to the 90's

[Smitty-48]

Both sides used it in the Falklands, it was the Argentine rifle too.

[Montegriffo]

That's what we used when I first joined, then we switched to the AR15 (C7) at the end of the 80's

Yeah, I think it's what my father was issued with when he did his NS in Malaysia '58 - '60. Not something you see in war films very often.
Used right up to the Falklands war.

Belgian FN FAL a.k.a The Right Arm of the Free World. It was the Commonwealth Rifle from the 50's to the 90's

I wonder why there has never been a big-budget British or Hollywood film made about the Falklands conflict.

[Smitty-48]

Yeah, I think it's what my father was issued with when he did his NS in Malaysia '58 - '60. Not something you see in war films very often.
Used right up to the Falklands war.

Belgian FN FAL a.k.a The Right Arm of the Free World. It was the Commonwealth Rifle from the 50's to the 90's

I wonder why there has never been a big-budget British or Hollywood film made about the Falklands conflict.

Tumbledown is the best Falklands movie, Robert Alasdair Lawrence MC

[Smitty-48]

I'd say the reason the British media has never made a Big Falklands War Movie is that they hate Margaret Thatcher

If she had lost the war and it was a catastrophe, they would have made a thousand movies about it by now

[Montegriffo]

I'd say the reason the British media has never made a Big Falklands War Movie is that they hate Margaret Thatcher

If she had lost the war and it was a catastrophe, they would have made a thousand movies about it by now

Only half of them hated Thatcher, the other half loved her.

[Montegriffo]

Shit, I forgot about the game.
What was the Buffalo goal disallowed for?

[Smitty-48]

I'd say the reason the British media has never made a Big Falklands War Movie is that they hate Margaret Thatcher

If she had lost the war and it was a catastrophe, they would have made a thousand movies about it by now

Only half of them hated Thatcher, the other half loved her.

The half who hate her are the ones who make the movies, the half who loved her were the Fleet Street press.

[Montegriffo]

I'd say the reason the British media has never made a Big Falklands War Movie is that they hate Margaret Thatcher

If she had lost the war and it was a catastrophe, they would have made a thousand movies about it by now

Only half of them hated Thatcher, the other half loved her.

The half who hate her are the ones who make the movies, the half who loved her were the Fleet Street press.

Even still, they could have made a film depicting her as a heartless opportunist. Last fling of the Empire and all that.
Maybe it's just that they don't want to stir up animosity between us and the Argies?