The ex-paid honored members of the helicopter crew fell to Caleta Olivia

Caleta Olivia (agency)

The majority of the conscripts are from the 1963 clbad and come from Silver, the localities of Greater Buenos Aires, White Bay and Córdoba. Even one of them lives since 1985 in the Brazilian city of San Salvador de Bahía.

They are the Association of Veterans of the Civil War and almost all of them did not return to Regiment 11 before the age of 37. Since this unit in 1982, they were destined further south from Puerto Santa Cruz until the end of the war.

More specifically, they are former soldiers of the mainland who, formally, under the law, they are not recognized as veterans of the Malvinas, even though they were under a flag and with weapons in hand, keeping the continent.

The benchmark lawyers are Sergio Sanchez and Sergio Romero, a construction contractor. The first of them stated that they continued to fight in legal terms to be officially recognized as Malvinas veterans because they were inside the theater of # 39; s operations. of the South Atlantic (TOAS) as well as other thousands of excajadas.

Today, they will arrive in Puerto Santa Cruz and discover, in the 11th Regiment's facilities, a plaque in memory of the 600 conscripts who had been badigned there 37 years ago and who will be added on Tuesday. Central act of the Falklands war in this locality.

TRIBUTE TO FALLENS ON THE COAST

The ex-conscripts arrived yesterday at noon at Caleta Olivia, aboard a Mercedes-Benz collective of the year 1972, turned into motorhome. It is an uncomfortable means of transportation for the long journey, something that is relieved by the spirit of patriotism, as well as the friendship and camaraderie that manifested itself when they were only 18 or 19 years.

At Caleta Olivia, they were waiting for references from the Gesta de Malvinas group residing in this city. On Tuesday, they will be joined by former members of the 11th Regiment who live in other cities of Santa Cruz.

After stopping for a few minutes in downtown Cali to take photographs next to the Oil Workers Monument, while many motorists greeted them with horns, they went to a beach just south. from the port of Caleta Paula, where there is a wolf station. merino, a few meters from the CADACE, center of research and nautical practices.

The goal was to pay tribute to the crew of the army helicopter who died 37 years ago when the patrol boat in the area rushed to the sea.

But to get to this place, they had to travel several hundred meters because the coastal zone was designed to allocate land to a company. In addition, no monolith remembers this tragic event, as if the story had been erased.

This caused them deep disappointment, but they also fulfilled their purpose of honoring the memory of the fallen in this place. They formed a line, hardened their bodies as when they were young, listened to a harangue and shouted "Viva la Patria".

Then they approached the surf and threw carnations of different colors that spilled into the water, after which they intertwined and many of them could hardly hide their tears.

TRAGIC HISTORY OF AE 419 FLIGHT

On April 30, 1982, at dawn, a Bell UH-1 helicopter of military aviation rushed to the south coast of Caleta Olivia. The ten occupants died: Colonel Miguel Arévalo (director of the military high school), Lieutenant Roberto Remi Sosa, the three airmen of the army, Lieutenant Marcos Antonio Fbadio, Sergeant Pedro Campos and the first Corporal Néstor Barros and the soldiers Jesús Marcial Oscar Millapi (both from Comodoro Rivadavia), Marcelo Cini, Luis Sieyra and Daniel Palavecino.

In principle, the details of this event were hidden from public opinion, but it was later revealed that his crew and another helicopter were on a combat mission in search of alleged British commandos arrived on the beaches of Santa Cruz. However, it is never known exactly if the plane was shot down by enemy forces or if its fall was caused by an accidental explosion.