"Look at them with pride": the emotional video of the pilots who fought during the Falklands War

The 37th anniversary of the Falklands War and the School of Military Aviation released an emotional video to honor the hero pilots who defended the country in the war.

With an original and meaningful message, the institution organized a campaign with hashtags #DefendieronConHonor and #MiralosConOrgullo. "We do not know them all, but we owe them everything," is the message they conveyed from the agency.

In the video, you see a car that stops in front of the EAM, where is a group of aspirants. One of them approaches and the driver asks if there is a gas station. The young note that he is wearing a jacket with a badge of the Falkland Islands and is angry. The man, ex-combatant, designates it and says: "We swear to defend them and that's what we did." Then he goes away and the aspirants send him back with a military salute.

Last week, the national legislators of both chambers decorated 23 expilotos with the medal "The Argentine nation to fight the value", handed to those who made different flight missions during the Falklands war. This distinction was aimed at recognizing merit, courage and heroism in defending the sovereignty of the Fatherland in the performance of its tasks in the South Atlantic War.

Brigadier Major Alberto Vianna received the medal; Brigadier-Mayor Horacio Orefice; Commodore Jorge Valdecantos; Commodore Ronaldo Ferri (received his son Ernesto Ferri); Commodore Rubén Moro; Commodore Eduardo Senn; Commodore Roberto Cerruti; commodore Walter Veliz; Commodore Cristóbal Villegas; Vicecomodoro Andrés Valle and the deceased vice-mayor Hugo Maldonado (he received his wife María Isabel Meade Amadeo).

They also paid tribute to the Chief Warrant Officer Julio Daverio; Senior NCO Juan Carlos Luján; Deputy Commander Major Nicolás Segovia; the deceased deputy chief Jorge Contigiani (received his wife, Novemia Gladys Frezza); Deputy Chief Roberto Puig; The first master Pedro Razzini; the first deceased master Carlos Bill received by his wife Gladys González); The first master Delfino Fretes; The first master Sergio Tulián; Chief Sous Chief Oscar Gatto; Assistant NCO Carlos Nazzari; and Assistant NCO Carlos Ortiz.

They provided important support to offensive air operations with C-130 Hercules aircraft to face little-known and risky exploration and reconnaissance missions on the South Atlantic in order to locate and accurately target naval targets.

The National Defense Commissions of both Houses of Congress have promoted this tribute in order to recognize their value in the military strategy flights deployed by the Argentine Air Force as part of the operations of its Hercules aircraft in the Falklands war.