The Royal Navy had deployed a large surface task force 8,000 miles from home without effective protection from air attack. Listening to false prophets, they had retired their large aircraft carriers as obsolete, depriving the fleet of airborne early warning and supersonic interceptors. To save money they had not funded the installation of existing cruise missile defenses nor made the investment in three-dimensional air defense radars for their ships. Now they began to pay a mounting price in blood and treasure.
John F. Lehman Jr,
United States Secretary of the Navy, 1981–7Most of the pilots in the Argentine Navy were trained at Pensacola and at Kingsville, Texas. I had flown with several at Kingsville, and they were all of a very high quality.
John F. Lehman Jr