Mike Scott: Self - Commander, 2nd Batallion Scots Guards

Quotes 

• Lieutenant Colonel Mike Scott : Tony Wilson said "The intelligence is going to be so good that you'll know the name of the man in the trench opposite". And we all thought, "Yep". The only *real* intelligence we got was off the BBC World Service.

• Tom Hardy - Narrator : In 3 Commando Brigade's wake would come a second force, 5 Infantry Brigade, to provide reinforcements after the landings. In April, it was put through its paces by its commander, Brigadier Tony Wilson, on a training exercise in Wales.

  Brigadier John Waters : So I thought I'd better go and have a look at this lot. And my first impression was "God, what a bloody shambles this lot is. Surely they're not thinking of sending them abroad to fight a real war."

  Lieutenant Colonel Mike Scott : We were sitting in the Brecon Beacons, and the Brigade Commander appeared and said "We're going to do a brigade attack tonight, and I want you all to make a plan". And we thought "Hang on, *he* should be giving *us* the plan".

  Lieutenant Colonel Michael Rose : Brigadier Tony Wilson had come out as so indecisive and so incompetent in Wales that they decided that he should be removed from his command. General Bramall, who was the Chief of Defence, over-ruled that decision because he thought it would be bad for the morale of the brigade to have its brigadier removed. Bramall told me that it was the worst decision he had taken in 45 years of soldiering. And it was.

  Brigadier John Waters : I would have sacked the Brigade Commander then and there, just on the evidence I saw on this test exercise, let alone what he got up to when he got to the Falklands.