Grenada 1983: Reagan's Cold War Gamble | Operation Urgent Fury
Since the end of the Vietnam War American forces enjoyed a period of relative peace. That is until Operation Urgent Fury, when a strange set of circumstances brought elite units into armed conflict in Grenada, the strategically important island that guards the southernmost access to the Caribbean.
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The footage & the music seems even older than the conflict!! LOL😆
Ronnie Raygun
They forgot Clint Eastwood and Mario van Peebles were also there lmao
I love American exceptionalism and the 1980’s
Wait till the Swede gets out of the brigg
Texas needs to start shipping immigrants to the Reagan library. Reagan passed immigration reform 1986 and that law is still currently on the books today.
I was at Grenada 1983 USS Surabachi AE-21 doing refueling & rearming operations,sadly also at Mayport FL when they brought the USS Stark home a very somber day,you forgot to mention the USS Roberts FFG-58 that hit a mine in 1988 & almost sunk,but because of her brave crew they didn't
This is an hour long commercial
And now our students are waiving palestinian flags instead of saying usa number 1
Ok...the pronunciation is grating. For future reference it's pronounced GRE-NAY-DA not Gre-Nah-da, that is the pronunciation for a Spanish city.
One correction on the narration about the air cover during Operation Urgent Fury. It was the A-7 Corsair II, not Crusader as one of the aircraft that flew air cover. I should know because it was my squadron (VA-15) that was involved flying the A-7's.
October 1983 my Marine unit and I was in Beruit helping with the evac after the barracks bombing.
Fun Fact ! the original commander became sick with the flu and a then one star Norman Schwarzkopf had to take command , he wrote about this in his book
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A-7s Corsair were from VA-15 and VA-87. The A-6 were from VA-176 whilst the F-14 came VF-14 and VF-32 my Squadron all were from Carrier Airwing Six from the USS INDEPENDENCE CV-62. Good times
Not many Americans at the time that didn't have people in deployment, knew how serious this event was!
“This is the AK47. It makes a very distinct sound when fired at you”
I remember watching this on TV and talking about it at school.
Ican remember when this took place. I was stationed in West Germany and was home for my sister's wedding. I had a cousin that worked for a newspaper, and she did not like my take on not allowing the press to know before it happened.
The intro song made it seem like it was a training video for work