Probably the most sobering 40 minutes of my life CAPing at 10k overhead the Galahad and Tristram that evening, watching the superhuman efforts of the helos trying to rescue the Welsh Guards. A thoroughly avoidable debacle with massive loss of life.
Luckily, we caught the second wave but not before one of them had hit F4 north of Lively Island. Then came the long, dark transit back for my first ever night deck landing - in a thunderstorm with 90 secs of fuel remaining. But that is another story.
Mog