16th Parachute Brigade transitioned through a Field Force organization before becoming the 5th Airborne Brigade and was deployed with two parachute battalions during the Falkland Islands War in 1982. Northern Ireland tours continued after the ending of the Cold War in 1991.
On 2 April 1982 Argentina invaded Port Stanley – the capital of the Falkland Islands Dependencies. With only about 80 marines for defence, the Islands and South Georgia were quickly overrun. A British Task Force was rapidly assembled to retake the Islands, with its Land Element centred on 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines.
about Falklands (Operation Corporate)
Rhine Crossing (Operation Varsity)
At 1000 hours on 24th March 1945 nine battalions of the 6th British Airborne Division
about Rhine Crossing (Operation Varsity)
Iraq (Operation Telic)
During February 2003 16 Air Assault Brigade formed part of the massive build up of
about Iraq (Operation Telic)
Rwanda (Operation Gabriel)
In the immediate aftermath of Rwanda’s hard fought civil war and the genocide which accompanied
about Rwanda (Operation Gabriel)
