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42 Commando RM
The naked roll mat fighting boys. Based in Plymouth and currently there.
Fought in the Far East during WW2, then stationed in Malta before returning to the UK in 1971.
Took Mt Kent and Mt Harriet during the Falklands War and served in TELIC 1, where they lost 8 guys in a single USMC helicopter crash, and subsequently in HERRICK.
