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The Yompers: With 45 Commando in the Falklands War
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In 1982 a British Royal Marines unit, 45 Commando, was sent eight thousand miles to retake the Falkland Islands after Argentina invaded them. Lacking helicopters and running short of supplies, the men marched across rugged ground under heavy loads, a gruelling movement the Commandos called yomping. Their campaign culminated in a fierce night fight for Two Sisters, a steep hill that controlled the approaches to Stanley.
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The author was a company commander in that unit, and this account is among the first written by an officer of that rank from the campaign. He describes the march and the close infantry fighting from the front line, and he also reflects on the conflict at higher levels and on war in general, combining vivid frontline description with broader thinking about what the fighting meant.
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