Operation Urgent Fury (October 25, 1983)

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[Fiji Hill]

Operation Urgent Fury

Grenada

President Reagan orders U.S. Marines, Army Rangers, Navy Special Warfare teams, and other military forces to invade Grenada, citing a takeover of the tiny Caribbean Island by "a brutal group of leftist thugs." U.S. troops, along with a small force from six Caribbean nations, overcome surprisingly strong resistance from Cubans, who support the island's new regime. A day after the invasion, the troops begin evacuating 1,100 U.S. citizens on the island.

[Fiji Hill]

Today is the anniversary of a major turning point in the Cold War. For the first time since the war began, the Soviet bloc lost territory when American armed forces invaded and overthrew Grenada's Marxist-Leninist regime headed by Bernard Coard.

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[ColdSteelTalon]

May Reagan rest in peace...

[US Navy Vet]

I was there 28 years ago today(USS Independence CV-62/Freedom’s Flagship/Guardian of Freedom)!

[GATOR NAVY]

I read some about it later but at the time, I was on the West Coast doing workups on a newly-commissioned FFG. I was too busy and too junior to pay much attention.