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Argentines have paratroopers ?

Allegedly. Don't know about the quality, they might be the equivalent of the Iranian super weapons we hear about all the time.

To date (2009), the Argentine Army has eleven brigades:

two armored brigades (1st and 2nd),
three mechanized brigades (9th, 10th and 11th),
three mountain brigades (5th, 6th and 8th),
one paratroopers brigade (4th) and
two jungle brigade (3rd and 12th).

The islands are only 480 km from Argentina so they can't just use their helicopters to fly out there. So basically until they can capture a runway it is the C-130s. The can also throw stuff out the back door of some of their turboprop airliners. You could probably drop some supplies that way but I wouldn't want to use it for troops.