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Old 18-06-2007, 14:49   #17
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Re: 25th anniversary of the Falklands War

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Originally Posted by Damien View Post
Had the fleet not already been downsized a lot by the Falklands? That was what triggered the incident in the first place?
It had indeed - a number of ships were taken out of mothballs, and civvie ships re-configured as troop carriers.

The main difference is that we don't even have the capacity to get ships out of mothballs now - most of them were either junked, or sold off.
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