Tig, you clearly have no idea as to what you are talking about.
If you think that the Royal Marines sit around all day practicing beach landings then I guess that you imagine that the Airborne brigade only practice parachute jumps and nothing else?
If you are going to make boll0x claims to start a discussion then expect to get boll0x back , *.
Taken from various sites:
The British Task Force started to land its troops at San Carlos Bay on May 21st 1982 after receiving the go-ahead from London. Brigadier J H Thompson, Royal Marines, led the troops from 3 Commando Brigade. His second in command was Colonel T Seccombe, Royal Marines. Men from 40, 42 and 45 Commando were landed in San Carlos Bay along with men from 2 Para and 3 Para, Parachute Regiment. The main priorities were to secure the beachhead from attack and land as many men and supplies as was possible. To prevent nearby Argentine forces attacking the beachhead and disrupting it, groups of Special Forces troops were sent out to deal with the known nearest threats.
The 4,000 men of
3 Commando Brigade were put ashore as follows: 2nd battalion of the
Parachute Regiment (2 Para) from the
RORO ferry
Norland and 40 Commando (
Royal Marines) from the amphibious ship
HMS Fearless were landed at San Carlos (Blue Beach), 3 Para from the amphibious ship
HMS Intrepid were landed at
Port San Carlos (Green Beach) and 45 Commando from
RFA Stromness were landed at
Ajax Bay (Red Beach). Notably the waves of 8
LCUs and 8
LCVPs were led by Major
Ewen Southby-Tailyour who had commanded the Falklands detachment only a year previously. 42 Commando on the ocean liner
SS Canberra was a tactical reserve. Units from the
Royal Artillery,
Royal Engineers etc. and tanks were also put ashore with the landing craft, the
Round table class LSL and
mexeflote barges.
Rapier missile launchers were carried as underslung loads of
Sea Kings for rapid deployment.