Posted on 10/23/2018 8:05:00 AM PDT by fugazi
What a sad Sunday morning that was ...
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Thanks for the history!!
Not to shift the focus to politics, but when you consider that Iran funds Hezbollah (the terrorist group that attacked the Marines 35 years ago today) to the tune of $1 billion per year, Barack Obama essentially wrote a check to the mullahs to fund Hezbollah for well over 100 years when he sent $150 billion to Iran. Disgusting.
Gen. Sterling Price was the name of Rooster Cogburn’s cat in the movie “True Grit.”
I was about 5,000 yards from the blast. It made perfect mushroom cloud and looked like a small nuclear bomb went off.
I remember a parishoner announcing it to the congregation during Sunday services
An old friend who served in the USN in the 80s was telling me about drinking at the VFW and I asked if he was considered a veteran of a foreign war. He said ‘yup, my ship was sent to Beirut after the bombed our base there’. Learned something new about the VFW eligibility process. And it makes perfect sense. Looking back now it can be seen as an isolated event. But in the moment, at the height of the cold war, it was a different story.
Makes my blood boil. President Reagan should have bombed the sh*t out of Iran and told the Russians to stay out of it.
There should have been tactical nukes going off in the Bekka valley the next day after this...maybe a demonstration air burst over Tehran for good measure. NOT striking back HARD only emboldened these savages.
Yes, I think Beirut was indication number 2 that the US was a paper tiger. The first mistake was how quickly the West retreated in their support for the free speech of Salmdan Rushdie. Then Beirut showed once again you could mount terrorist attacks against the US without any consequence.
One of the guys I went through TBS with, was killed.
Side note: I gave blood twice. The corpsman were draining everyone in striking distance.
I did a Med cruise on the Nimitz in the 80’s and received the Navy Expeditionary Forces medal which qualifies for VFW membership. One night our A-6’s were loaded to bomb the runway of the Beirut airport but final permission never came. This was related to the airline hijacking.
This bombing, and an SAS call-in to the UK when a MOAB went off in Iraq, are two well known Pinnacle - Nuke flash transmissions from the field.
I remember it well, was USAF then. Still hurts.
My first thought was the ragheads have nucs now?
Thank you for your service, I was in Embark school at Little Creek, I agree we did little to respond.
I too was demoralized about it.
Did a year in Baghdad in 07/08, I was really torqued off when Dear Leader Obama bailed, thousands of lives lost, injured and changed, it is as if he took a leak on the graves of the fallen and spat in the face of those of the living.
Obama sure took care of his buds the Iranians.
I was out in Jacksonville with men from my platoon, and we were on secondary air alert. I remember I was sitting at Tino’s (where the food was bad, but the street walkers could not accost you because the cops ate there) when vans and MPs showed up to cart us back to base.
One of Sixth Marine Regiment’s battalions was sent over and we became the primary Air Alert battalion.
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