Ricardo Akins, a retired senior non-commissioned officer of the Marine Corps who was killed in Lanús, joined the Argentine Navy in 1977. In 1982, he was part of a call “to fulfill a mission in the south of the country.
” “We didn't know where we were going, but we did know that it was a real mission,” he highlighted. On April 1, 2020, Ricardo Akins'son expressed his pride on social networks for his father's participation in the landing of Argentine troops in the Falkland Islands.