Grenada 1983: Reagan's Cold War Gamble | Operation Urgent Fury

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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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@KennyMcCormick99 2 года назад

The footage & the music seems even older than the conflict!! LOL😆

@jodyfiore8200 2 года назад

@ Heisenberg I agree to footage do seem older, but the music is actually spot-on for 1983.

@KennyMcCormick99 2 года назад

@@jodyfiore8200 Really? Huh... good ear.

@Warpig_808 2 года назад

RLTW!

@bigl161985 2 года назад

Yeah dude standard 80s style carribean beat...every carribean knows that old stereotypical beat lolz...."unda tha sea".

@Mr0rris0 2 года назад

It's rad

@MyCharlie223 2 года назад

They forgot Clint Eastwood and Mario van Peebles were also there lmao

@jimmytwotime8004 Год назад

I gave you a like , just for mentioning Mario.😅

@MyCharlie223 Год назад

@@jimmytwotime8004 thank you sir we must never take for granted the lessons of Gunny Highway and the heroism of the ayatollah of rock and rollah

@Beardedfurflinger 2 года назад

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

@joanpreciouskisakye3171 2 года назад

Great experience!

@sgtmayhem7567 2 года назад

Thank you for your service. I was an Airborne Infantryman with the 82nd Airborne, I can’t believe that it will be 40 years next year, where did the time go?

@randbarrett8706 Год назад

Too bad Reagan didn’t care enough about the lives of US forces to not engage in wars of aggression

@johnconlon9652 Год назад

I apologise for the error ... 86 I visited the evil empire aka the u/s. Awful place. Grenada was 93 I think. You sound like a typical septic, the sort I've met in the u/s a few times in transit. I avoid los angeles and new york like the plague.

@vvsmraju7210 Год назад

Thank you for your service commander for helping Grenada 🇬🇩🇬🇩in a crisis

@noco7243 2 года назад

This documentary lasted longer than the war itself.

@bigjimmy3792 2 года назад

A swift invasion and takeover done by an advanced U.S. force

@buckberthod5007 2 года назад

The US has not had a war since 1945.

@bigjimmy3792 2 года назад

@@buckberthod5007 Afghanistan

@buckberthod5007 2 года назад

@@bigjimmy3792 Still not a war

@CaptainCanuck63 2 года назад

@@buckberthod5007 So? Who cares? It's still another addition to the loss column.

@michaelmacdermott6340 2 года назад

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.

@mikefromflorida8357 2 года назад

Only one of many misspellings and mispronunciations throughout this video.

@RogersGirl88 2 года назад

Whoever came up with the name “snake eye retarded bombs” needs a promotion.

@BigDaddy-yp4mi 2 года назад

@@RogersGirl88 retarded means slowed delivery in this case, by way of a drag chute. Retarded has ALWAYS meant slow or to slow, especially in auto repair manuals pre-2000, or anytime before political correctness outlawed ALL use of the word.

@simonbenjamin9463 2 года назад

We salute you.

@benmmbk765 2 года назад

THANKS for that operation. From India.

@lsutigernfla1 Год назад

I love American exceptionalism and the 1980’s

@monaliza3334 Год назад

You love bloody proxy war's created by your fqd oligarchs? Shameful. More then 30 million people dead from American proxy. Now it's war in Ukrain. I hope you start fighting each other in USA and Canada... get the feeling of the real war's on your soil....

@aberamagold7509 Год назад

They were made for each other.

@crhu319 Год назад

Wait til you hear about the 2000s! And 2010s! And 2020s!

@victorrivera2919 Год назад

👨‍🦳

@jamesanonymous2343 2 года назад

ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO,, MY WIFE AND I WERE ON A CRUISE WHICH VISITED GRENADA. WE TOOK A TOUR HOSTED BY A GENTLEMAN, WITH HIS PASSENGER VAN, ABOUT 10 TOURISTS. AS WE TRAVELED THROUGH THE SPICE PLANTATIONS I ASKED THE MAN, ( APPROX. 65 YRS OLD ) ABOUT THE U.S. FORCES INVASION, HIS RESPONSE WAS >>>>>> "" WHILE YOU'RE ON GRENADA, NEVER SAY A BAD WORD ABOUT RONALD REAGAN" ,,,,,,,QUOTE !

@jackof1 2 года назад

“This is the AK47. It makes a very distinct sound when fired at you”

@DefiantSix 2 года назад

General: "Major, are you new to Infantry?" Major: "Yes sir. Come over from supply." General: "Were you good at that?" Major: "Yes sir!" General: "Then stick to it; 'cause you're a walking clusterf**k as an Infantry officer."

@timandshannon03 2 года назад

What are you looking at? Get outta my L.Z. Love that film

@seanlanglois8620 2 года назад

Love that movie

@angloaust1575 2 года назад

Clint making up for missing the korean war!

@dciccantelli Год назад

Gunny Highway....A legend.

@StabbinJoeScarborough 2 года назад

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

@niccocowboymetoyer2972 2 года назад

October 1983 my Marine unit and I was in Beruit helping with the evac after the barracks bombing.

@bradycarlton1882 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for your service🇺🇸🇺🇸

@ignatziusturret5641 Месяц назад

@@niccocowboymetoyer2972 Another place on earth where the US are neither welcomed nor asked to come. Your realize yourself how useless your life'work has been?

@Stefan-st 2 года назад

What an unpleasant beginn.. We watch this to chill man

@JoeMotionVideos82 2 года назад

I remember watching this on TV and talking about it at school.

@Mike-01234 7 месяцев назад

Me too I was 14 years old in 83 I remember my parents talking about it saying "Another Vietnam". Friend of mine his father was an Air Force Colonel and a big Regan supporter. I remember going door to door with his family handing out vote for Regan signs and stickers. Grew up in Southern California it lot more conservative back then.

@stephenmitchell3569 Год назад

Reagan the Legend! 👍

@mgreg8134 Год назад

Reagan merely gave the order it was the generals and soldiers who actually carried it out they are the legends.

@omarlara1898 Год назад

Have you both lost your minds ?? Oh okay let me guess Clinton too right .. smh

@mgreg8134 Год назад

@@omarlara1898 Are you a troll? Reagan was no hero no single president has done more to destroy the middle class in this country. He increased the national debt by 142%. During peace time. The only president to score higher was FDR and he was fighting a depression and a world war. Clinton was no hero either they didn't call him Slick Willy for nothing.

@ignatziusturret5641 Месяц назад

And John Wayne as his secretary of defense, attacking one small country after the other 😅

@stephenmitchell3569 Месяц назад

@@ignatziusturret5641 Excellent President and how would you compare President Reagan to President Biden ????

@bennybenitez2461 2 года назад

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

@randykelso4079 2 года назад

Benny, didja notice that the narrator called the A-7s "A-7 Crusader Twos"? As you know, the A-7 was the "Corsair II"; the Crusader was the F-8. The goof jumped out at me since i served in an F-8 Crusader squadron (VF-154) during the Vietnam War, but have worked on both aircraft, the A-7 as a civilian.

@johnmclaughlin4292 2 года назад

I was there too. First cruise. In OI division and I can tell you CIC was an interesting place to be on that cruise.

@adamtrombino106 Год назад

Not many Americans at the time that didn't have people in deployment, knew how serious this event was!

@Toy1er Год назад

It was a pathetic display of imperialism.

@danielwoods3896 Год назад

@@Toy1ertell that to the Grenadians.

@johnr797 Год назад

@@danielwoods3896OK, I'm not sure how to get a hold of any though seeing as how it's such a small island nation with such a small population.

@johnr797 Год назад

@@danielwoods3896America big man though. Just like how they killed all those Panamanians because the dictator they installed went off-script. Also a good excuse to test weapons. Lots of Panamanians talk about seeing cars split in half by lasers.

@danielwoods3896 Год назад

@@johnr797 my point is that they consider the date of the invasion a holiday called “thanksgiving day”

@Hyperious_in_the_air Год назад

at 52:30 I believe that weird glitch in the video was caused on the recording equipment as electronic warfare equipment on the boat was fired up. Very cool to see a visual of just how high power modern radar operates at.

@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 Год назад

From my understanding if it was operational it would’ve degaussed the magnetic tape and that would’ve been the end of the video, but I could be getting systems confused

@johnmcmickle5685 2 года назад

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.

@thepatsnumber1fan 2 года назад

The intro song made it seem like it was a training video for work

@zerocool5395 Год назад

Retail store or fast food lol

@phil20_20 Год назад

I was in medical AIT when this went down. We were all in the barracks lounge that Sunday evening cheering and yelling for transport down there! Oh, to be young again. Lol 😂

@javanni1596 Год назад

Y’all wasn’t happy to go to Afghanistan

@phil20_20 Год назад

@@javanni1596 How would you know...

@javanni1596 Год назад

@@phil20_20 bro that island don’t even have a military theirs less than a 130k people on the islands(realistically how many of em gone fight ?) there’s over 300 million people in the US ig I see why they were happy to just bully people out there life

@malcolmclements9254 Год назад

"We got there just in time unfortunately, we didn't have time to inform the British."

@jamesdenofantiquity 2 года назад

An account of this stated that the operation was as much about building confidence back into the military as anything else. It was basically a live fire exercise and done with tourist maps. Also, the short in Transformers about calling and having to use a credit card to make the call while under fire happened here in real life.

@thebusybuilder4071 2 года назад

That was heartbreak ridge that did it too. The credit card part. They had the Marines do the med student rescue in the film when the army actually did it.

@phil20_20 Год назад

It was in the news at the time. Lol

@mattcampbell4777 11 месяцев назад

Weeeel, We were there also, it wasn't just the Doggies at the School. 22 AmFib @@thebusybuilder4071

@imjinscout84 Год назад

I was there with the 3/325th AIR, 82nd. I see now the meaning behind the saying, “the 11th man in a Marine squad is a camera man”.

@marykuss3390 2 года назад

I was stationed at the U.S. Naval Base Antigua, WI. when this happened. I was the Leading Seaman and one of many standing Base Security walking patrol along the beach. Oh the stories I could tell....Retired 21 years later.

@Page-Hendryx 2 года назад

"Yeah [far-off look in his eyes]...Walking patrol along the beach...You'll never know what it was like in the 'Gua, 'cause you weren't there, man!!"

@kevingraves8196 2 года назад

Thank you for your service

@vanPoll 2 года назад

You should contact "Combat Stories"-Podcast with Ryan Fugit. I would like to hear all of them!

@kenfrievalt7826 2 года назад

Antigua Wisconsin?? I am confused

@Balthorium 2 года назад

I loved Antigua and actually went to an American base to watch a movie outside at a small theater they set up.

@joanpreciouskisakye3171 2 года назад

The 82nd Airborne; unmatched achievers!

@RogersGirl88 2 года назад

Yeah, once the Rangers had secured the airport so the All American’s wouldn’t get motion sickness in their tum tums. Haha. Jk, the 82nd really got screwed after band of brothers came out, but even winters mentions that the 82nd deserved as much credit as the screaming eagles.

@amacca2085 2 года назад

😂😂😂😂 yeah looks like you were up against a a formidable enemy Typical dramatic Americans

@antipropo461 2 года назад

Against Cuban cooks and a 3 legged dog.

@carbonsnail014 2 года назад

You guys were asking the Marines there for batteries to put in your PRC 77 radios because you forgot to bring some with you.

@matty6848 2 года назад

What against a rag tag bunch of partisan fighters?

@dubb3835 Год назад

AC-130 was originally called puff the magic dragon

@Mrgunsngear 2 года назад

Thanks

@alze61 2 года назад

God bless America!!!!

@allenmitchell8846 2 года назад

When the planning was being done, the 101st was supposed to go. The 3rd BDE was picked to go, but their FA BN, 3/319th was in Honduras training the Honduran Army how to use M-102s. The 3rd didn't want to use another FA BN because they never worked with them, so it was passed to the 82nd. I was in Honduras training FOs.

@RogersGirl88 2 года назад

“Look for the brand new, big cars; those are the communists.” Nothing changes except the location.

@rumbletown1563 2 года назад

I love how honest the people are, they don’t care about western politics

@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 2 года назад

Nothing like Champaign Socialism

@mulletoutdooradventures6286 Год назад

You can see Clint Eastwood and Mario Van Peebles in the back ground during the general's speech. I think I saw the Swede back there too

@rolfagten857 Год назад

Aya-tollah of Rock & Rollah sir!

@mulletoutdooradventures6286 Год назад

@@rolfagten857 yyyyoooo I'm dying right now 😂😆😂😆😂😆

@rolfagten857 Год назад

@@mulletoutdooradventures6286 Short battle, lots of fun!

@mattcampbell4777 11 месяцев назад

RIP Pvt Profile.

@alshell5 Год назад

This pretty good video. Spot on. I should know I was one of those that jumped on that runway......WHAT A RIDE!!!

@smjhobbies4527 2 года назад

It's cool to see this because I've heard this talked about on podcasts on Sean Ryan's podcast and on mike drop

@Hyperious_in_the_air Год назад

love the canadian embassy rep sitting there smoking a pipe like a boss during the speech at 14:07

@cab8866 2 года назад

October 83. XVIII Airborne Corps. Can't believe it's been that long ago. Brand new Staff Sergeant going in.

@codyhilton1750 Год назад

Never say only when talking about the KIA. That is a big only. Semper Fi!

@pdb6157 2 года назад

It’s amazing that the college students acted so grateful and respectful towards our troops and officials. College students today would be making it about themselves and crying about the way they were rescued and then probably try to sue or put out lies against them

@Spliceozome 2 года назад

you realize that after Vietnam, college kids protested returning US troops right? you sound exactly like Nixon back in his day.

@gregmunn2945 2 года назад

The students weren't in danger until the U.S. army put them in danger. Absolutely disgusting violation of international law, but that's what Americans do best.

@master3HORSE 2 года назад

@@gregmunn2945 Then why were they CHEERING when US soldiers arrived to rescue them?

@mortsnerd6053 2 года назад

BS,you have know idea what your talking about.

@shawnakaleshawndiaz 2 года назад

@@master3HORSE well if they were cheering, it literally meant that they weren't in any sort of danger.

@alexlanning712 2 года назад

Ronnie Raygun

@thepotato3275 2 года назад

Fun fact: When Grenada was a communist country it still kept the governor general (queen Elizbeth's representative in the country) making it the only monarcho-communist state to of ever existed

@F_ckAllTrumpVoters 2 года назад

USA picked on them for being unique.

@richwinds7179 2 года назад

@@F_ckAllTrumpVoters So what! Communism doesn't and has never worked. You remember the line, look for the new cars and those are the Communist. Kings, Queens and elected Prime Ministers and Presidents are replaced with a group of the same with no elections and they live like Kings!

@tellmemore8837 2 года назад

@@richwinds7179 Capitalism doesn't work too. America killing people just to save the dollar.

@ronalddino6370 2 года назад

@@richwinds7179 you must love your Augustos Pinochet Fulgencio Batista

@Vollification 2 года назад

Both communist AND red coats! **Raging eagle in humvee noises**

@benjaminnoine9246 Год назад

one of the forgotten invasions

@seanstelmat1374 2 года назад

Heartbreak Ridge

@chucks_88 2 года назад

A complete B.S of a movie

@Ash-ey9oy 2 года назад

Classic

@RogersGirl88 2 года назад

🎵The lights In the harbor Dont shine for me. Im Like a lost ship Adrift on the sea Sea of heart break.🎶

@sheldongrenada 2 года назад

@@chucks_88 absolutely...totally inaccurate.....

@chrisalexander2478 2 года назад

Gotta love those Phabulous Phrogs :) Also, Cobras didnt have a 7.62mm mini gun. They had a 20mm 3 barrel M-197 rotary cannon.

@fredcollins8919 2 года назад

20mm is even better

@KingCorduroy Год назад

THat's the best news I've heard throughout this documentary

@cedricliggins7528 Год назад

Exactly

@formerparatrooper 2 года назад

A Staff Sergeant I knew from our unit got in on this party straight out of jump school at Ft. Benning and got master blaster wings on his cherry jump. Being at the right place at the right time I guess.......

@dukecraig2402 2 года назад

I was in basic training when this and the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon happened. Boy did the DI's play them up.

@formerparatrooper 2 года назад

@@dukecraig2402 I was frustrated that I could not get into that party. My MOS was in the Intel field and they did not need anyone from our unit. I have been told I did not miss anything but the truth is I wanted to find out my mettle.

@cab8866 2 года назад

Combat jump yes. Not Senior or Master wings.

@formerparatrooper 2 года назад

@@cab8866 Yes, you are right. He did in the end have Master Wings and he also got a CIB somewhere else. He was one tough soldier.

@cab8866 2 года назад

@@formerparatrooper did mine. Graduated Jump master school in September of 82. A week before my second child, first son was born. Was a brand new Staff Sergeant going into Grenada. That story needs work.

@rickygonzalez4549 2 года назад

That’s Awesome 👏 and also for the people and children to be happy 😃 that liberated there country.God Bless Us All 🙏👍👋😎😀

@grizzlycountry1030 2 года назад

*Cuba:* • 24 killed • 59 wounded • 638 captured • 2 transport aircraft captured

@markcopland5738 2 года назад

I remember when that happened I was up in Canada and their news said the Queen of England was mad,but it would take the U.K. a while to get there,so the neighbors ask the U.S. to take care of it.

@Shot_Gunner 2 года назад

These were the days.. 😎✌🏻 Semper Fi

@AlexD889 2 года назад

Thank you for your service.

@tonyr3060 9 месяцев назад

Am proud to be an American citizen 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

@RichardSchiffman-jn1ds Месяц назад

That's the flag of Liberia. WTF? 😂😂😂

@conanthegreat4418 Год назад

That would be "liberation" of Grenada. Thank you.

@sgtmayhem7567 2 года назад

Good documentary I really enjoyed it.

@requiscatinpace7392 Год назад

I’m off to watch Heartbreak Ridge!

@cyberkraft8005 8 месяцев назад

…enjoyed my brief visit there. College paid for. Hoo-rah.

@anthonylagunas6737 2 года назад

Did have maps of island, so used tourist maps. Also planes brought people down for short stays. That way they could get credit for being in a combat zone.

@michaelficarro2591 2 года назад

I met a female E4 in Germany a few years later with a combat patch. She was way too young for Vietnam so I asked her about it, she said she flew into Grenada on a DC9 and was there for about 12 hours LOL, she thought the credit for it was stupid...

@formerparatrooper 2 года назад

Yes, that little bit of intel did not make it to the talking heads, but seeing what is happening in the military today under the present Generals and Admirals makes what they did back then pale in comparison. Today the WOKE crowd and the cross dressers are running amuck and it makes one wonder how things are going to go in the next one, and there will be a next one. Communists never quit and never give up.

@Ltulrich Год назад

I made a fantastic Operation Flashpoint campaign around this

@rumbletown1563 2 года назад

26:46 that is really rich 🤑 lmao

@1mezion 2 года назад

It's always amusing to hear them pronounce the island's name

@JeffrikOG9 2 года назад

We are literally always at war

@noco7243 2 года назад

Cope

@jamieharper1051 2 года назад

This is USA being an aggressor or invader. USA has set the world standard openly defying international law. Every time America violates weaker countries China watches and study’s.

@shirleyle3931 2 года назад

Stich Jones never goes to war without his plastic...

@TD402dd 2 года назад

The six barrel Vulcan gun is better known as Puff or Gatling gun.

@anthonyesparsen9453 3 месяца назад

Yup my brother was one of the seals crew taking heavy casualties

@KristianWontroba 2 года назад

Cool Gulf and Libia bonus content in the second half. NIce!

@blackhawk7r221 Год назад

The US needed a full scale practice war after the hollow army days of the 70’s. We refined it a few years later in Panama. We implemented it for Desert Shield/Storm. We’ve been strong since.

@zurdochileno3230 Год назад

You still lost to goatfarmers in sandals lmao

@danielwoods3896 Год назад

@@zurdochileno3230we won the conventional war easily, but you can’t win against a determined and resistant populace. At least, not without morally reprehensible tactics

@zurdochileno3230 Год назад

@@danielwoods3896 its almost like they didn't want you in there

@garethpeck6040 Год назад

Woke strang.....

@save7597 6 месяцев назад

@@zurdochileno3230its almost like we planned the chaotic evacuation before hand

@joeharris3878 2 года назад

It reminded me of The Mouse That Roared.

@Tang0Fox1 Год назад

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.

@TheNphillips 8 месяцев назад

This is just one more nail in the coffin this so called documentary should be laid to rest in. What a bunch of FoxNews propaganda. They get just about everything wrong.

@anthonyesparsen9453 3 месяца назад

Yup I like that ray gun! 😮

@henrysantos121 Год назад

Matatan.🔥🤔🔥. Ribirin HS,

@grizzlycountry1030 2 года назад

*STRENGTH* *United States:* • 7,300 • 4 tanks • 1 LHA (USS Saipan LHA-2) • 1 aircraft carrier • 3 destroyers • 2 frigates • 1 ammunition ship • 27 F-14A Tomcats *CPF:* • 353 *United Kingdom:* • Unknown

@John.S.Patton 2 года назад

I think it said 5 m60 tanks

@matty6848 2 года назад

Maybe because the U.K is 5000 miles away?

@gus2600 11 месяцев назад

I was against rescuing these students . Most of them had made it clear that they were anti Reagan and the U.S. Military . I would not have sent our American fighting men to risk their lives for them !

@barryking5993 2 года назад

Meanwhile in Beirut we were down a whole company and Ronnie Reagan had sent a relief to Granada

@grizzlycountry1030 2 года назад

*STRENGTH* *Grenada:* • 1,200 • 8 APCs • 2 armored cars • 12 AA guns *Cuba:* • 784 (including 636 construction workers) *Soviet Union:* • 49 *East Germany:* • 16 *Bulgaria:* • 14 *Libya:* • 3-4

@jameshodgkins559 2 года назад

Americas only success in a conflict on its on is against Grenada 🇬🇩 .

@Arctic204 2 года назад

I enjoyed the video

@fastone942 Год назад

I remember the poor 82 guys who jump around 450 to 500 feet and that most likely is on the high side a lot of them got hurt on the jump

@marc2638 Год назад

Ranger's jumped from that height as well, I was a Ranger as well a 500 foot drop is bot unheard of

@markmcdougald2596 Год назад

only 2 82nd guys jumped, but reap the glory, easier to talk about than to actually do

@joejunglas441 2 года назад

I was stationed at ft.stewart ga. I wanted to go,but gen.schcorpaff

@joejunglas441 2 года назад

Took the rangers at hunter army airfield rangers.

@grzib 9 месяцев назад

I was -1 years old during those events

@rickygonzalez4549 2 года назад

Also Mr President Reagan was a Leader.RIP Sir

@calametrocity 2 года назад

"Are we going to see the President?" "No sir, you're the President, they're here to see you." "Great, that's great."

@amkrause2004 Год назад

Yes he was.

@MeTubeUser 2 года назад

Invasion of Granada was uncalled for! Abuse of power! And crazy!

@soldierski1669 2 года назад

SEALS took a beating on this...

@bigal1863 2 года назад

Yup lost some good men needlessly

@amkrause2004 Год назад

Yep, that's why 6 years later in Panama, they jumped instead of coming by sea

@MrDoneboy Год назад

I was on the landing force. Ranger's rule!

@mikefromflorida8357 2 года назад

A well-intended video, the misidentifications and mispronunciations make this unpleasant to watch.

@sheldongrenada 2 года назад

Easiest way to anger a Grenadian....is to mispronounce the name of our country as this narrator has done.

@Cincy32 2 года назад

Boo hoo

@nevetsdrom5828 Год назад

Was there 25 Oct 83 with Bravo 3/325 Airborne Inf. Was called out 23 Oct 83 for deployment to ???. in air we were told an Island called Grenade. Chooted up for a drop but that was called off thanks to the Ranger's taking out the ZHU24's that were defending the airfield. Did body recovery of those that took them out. RIP Brothers

@ChasRize 2 года назад

We can’t forget about the nighstalkers that we’re apart of this also

@dalehardisty216 2 года назад

160th Aviation Co. out of Ft. Campbell Ky. They are always first in when Rangers are inserted. They also gave S.E.A.L. team six a ride when they took out Bin Laden in Pakistan.

@SimeonTurney-t2i Год назад

Grenada had a strong army back then need back one now in these days I am proud of the army back then

@lornsheets 5 дней назад

I still have problems of all i have done in the army but getting help ... we jumped off the back of C 141 while moving and they were turning around to get out of dodge i remeber as yesterday c 130 landed later then had to get out quick left the load master his heD set flew off his head as they took off closed the back door ramp and left him ...

@dougmoore5252 Год назад

Yes, Reagan was a terrific President.

@davidg-ig8vj 2 года назад

Yeah, it's like an episode of 'Miami Vice'.

@onewingedangelsephiroth1561 2 года назад

The cheese factor of this soundtrack is so high that all nearby rats are now diabetics 😅

@mitchgalietta6564 2 года назад

Wait till the Swede gets out of the brigg

@Loach461 Месяц назад

T h e S w e e e e d

@clubprojects6923 2 года назад

The first war on tourism.

@davidg-ig8vj 2 года назад

Jeez. It's just one long commercial for the US military.

@rs4028 Год назад

Those construction workers never had a chance. I mean who brings a jackhammer a to a war? We kicked their butts. Thank God for Clint Eastwood, Mario Van Peebles, and his guitar. Saved our bacon. I just wish Hulk Hogan could have been there too. Merica!

@noelrobinson3254 Год назад

You are right. The heavily armed combat engineers never had a chance at victory but I saw them kill several of us

@grizzlycountry1030 2 года назад

*Soviet Union:* • 2 wounded • Weapons cache seized: 12 APCs 12 anti-aircraft guns 291 submachine guns 6,330 rifles 5.6 million rounds of ammunition

@sheldongrenada 2 года назад

The only APC's on this island were the ones you mentioned under Grenada. There was no 12 Russian (I think you really meant Soviet) APC's here.

@matty6848 2 года назад

No one cares.

@Mardasee Год назад

Many civilian militia too. They wore two piece uniforms made out of white sheeting. They stuck out like sore thumbs.

@justinrobertson7023 Год назад

Are you alright, sir?

@agimackenzie2361 Год назад

Is this meant to be a 'Wooooooo!! USA USA!!' Kind of comment?

@grizzlycountry1030 2 года назад

*Civilians:* • 24 civilians killed (18 of them when a mental hospital was accidentally bombed by the U.S. Navy A-7s)

@cuba129 2 года назад

Accidentally sure but i would not be quick on saying that

@pedenmk 2 года назад

I was at M.C.A.S cherry point n.carolina. how time flies.

@donaldpate1863 2 года назад

If they didn't take Grenada, the Military industrial complex was in danger of loosing a valuable link in their drug business!

@nigelfaulkner5449 2 года назад

You make no mention of the failed seal team that drowned on insertion, the current was too strong for them and they were swept away to their deaths. US navy vessels could not get close to the island because the US navy were relying on charts that were nearly 100 years old. The runway was being extended to allow larger larger planes full of tourists to land, and was being funded by the EU.

@tylerdurden4006 2 года назад

america admit to another failure in the military? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@RogersGirl88 2 года назад

Media means propaganda.

@Ghatbkk 2 года назад

The EU didn't exist in 1983.

@amacca2085 2 года назад

@@Ghatbkk ok the EEC

@Ghatbkk 2 года назад

Nope. Stop posting stuff proving you have no idea what you are talking about.

@reginaldmcnab3265 2 года назад

If Russia had done the same thing it would be labeled as bad

@denying101 Год назад

of course, its western propaganda. Also, pay attention to the beginning of the "documentary" the narrative in which it justifies this invasion its quite amusing

@02Benji Год назад

It was labeled as bad, this is US news it’s not the only news source on this event at the time. There was Global condemnation for the breaching of a nations sovereignty.

@cityboy9301 2 года назад

He went into Grenada with his head held high Da do Ron Ron Ron Da do Ron Ron. Only trouble is he can't remember why Da do Ron Ron Ron Da do Ron Ron!

@RogersGirl88 2 года назад

“Gruh-NAY-duh”

@carbonsnail014 2 года назад

Reagan called this op to take heat off of him on account of the 244 Marines he had just gotten killed in Beirut. What did he say? "Uh, my mistake".

@twright3802 2 года назад

Absolutely correct. And he did nothing to the perpetrators who bombed the barracks.

@zen4men 2 года назад

There was a reason why Britain and France went to war over the Suez Canal in 1956. ...... America stopped that operation, and the world has paid through the nose ever since.

@timwilson3124 2 года назад

I remember the speculation of oil reserves in Grenada. Ronnie was right they found it in 2018. The reason for going was to keep Russia and Cuba from setting up bases but the U.S had recognized Grenada in 1974. 🤔😏