"Grenada War 1983" - Original Footage of 'Operation Urgent Fury'

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The United States invasion of Grenada began at dawn on October 25th 1983. The U.S. and a coalition of six Caribbean nations invaded the island nation of Grenada, 100 miles north of Venezuela. Codenamed Operation Urgent Fury by the U.S. military, it resulted in military occupation within a few days.
Grenada lies between Puerto Rico and Venezuela and was an unlikely location for a showdown between the Western democracies and communism. Yet, it was on the small island that the Brezhnev Doctrine-in essence that the Soviet Union would ensure that any government that became communist would remain so forever-met its first reversal. At the end of a three-day battle Grenada would return to the family of democratic nations. Moreover, the fight set in motion forces that fundamentally changed American military operations.
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@CplSkiUSMC Год назад

I was one of those Marines in Beirut, Lebanon. We got hit with the suicide truck bomb at our battalion headquarters (everyone mistakenly calls it barracks) the day before the landings on Grenada. After the Soviets shot down the Korea airliner in September, we were attacked on October 23rd with mass casualties, and Grenada was invaded on October 24th, it sure felt like WWIII was pending. The Marines who hit Grenada went on to sail to Lebanon and relieve us in November and become targets in that shooting gallery. Despite the success of the Grenada operation those were dark days for the Marine Corps.

@yigolaski08 Год назад

How many casualities we are talking about ?

@CplSkiUSMC Год назад

@@yigolaski08 My unit suffered 248 KIA, and for the entire operation in Beirut the total was 268 KIA and 3 killed in accidents. There were 151 wounded. In the suicide attack on our headquarters on October 23, 1983 there were 241 killed including 220 Marines, it was the highest single day death toll for the Marine Corps since Iwo Jima. All because the politicians wanted us to play nice instead of playing war. I don't blame Hezbollah so much as I blame our own politicians. Hezbollah saw a weakness and attacked, it was an act of war. Our politicians were all lined up trying to chop President Reagan off at the knees which prevented him from playing hardball the way I think he wanted to. That political infighting rendered us nothing more than caged tigers and we paid for it in blood.

@noelrobinson3254 Год назад

I will never forget that day. I was in the army. There is now a memorial wall traveling the country trying to visit every home town of each marine killed in the Beirut bombing. “We came in peace!”

@CplSkiUSMC Год назад

@@noelrobinson3254 I have not heard that. Only organization that I can think of that would do that would be Beirut Veteran's Association but I don't recall getting any emails to that effect. I will have to look into it further. Thanks.

@TomKatzman Год назад

We had Engineman 2nd Class Duplanty from the Beachmaster Team Alpha Two survive the blast one of a few. They were in sick bay on bottom floor.

@RoyatAvalonFarms Год назад

I started ROTC in 1988 and one of my instructors was a veteran of Genada and Vietnam. He was actually in Ranger Bn for Grenada. He was one of the best instructors I ever had all through my 33 year career. MSG James Gillespie.

@LiterallyOverTheHillAdventures Год назад

One of my best friends in the Army was on that blown up Jeep, Randy Cline A Co, 1/75, he was KIA in Grenada. We went through Basic, Jump School and RIP together.

@th-pl3nx Год назад

Sorry man. I was stationed in Panama from Dec 85 - May of 88 at Ft Kobbe (AATW). I knew several guys who were with the big deuce in Grenada and a couple Rangers. My sincere condolences for your loss.

@tony55752 Год назад

With Maynard?

@huntclanhunt9697 Год назад

That's rough, man. At least he went out like a solider.

@LiterallyOverTheHillAdventures Год назад

@@tony55752 Randy was the Team Leader and commanding the Gun Jeep.

@faryldaryl3975 Год назад

Same here, knew Russell Robinson from day one of basic. I don't know for sure that he was on that jeep, but I heard from another Ranger that he was on one that got hit by an RPG.

@stephenstott9690 Год назад

I was with the HHT, 1-17th Air Cavalry Squadron, 82d Airborne Division and deployed to Grenada. Appreciate the video and footage.

@zoober8158 Год назад

thankyou for your service. what did your experience in Grenada teach you?

@stephenstott9690 Год назад

@@zoober8158 actually quite a bit. I was the Squadron chaplain assistant and one of the few NCOs that deployed with the Headquarters Troop so I had a lot of leadership duties besides my job as a chaplain assistant to include being Sergeant of the guard and convoy Commander among others. I even assisted the Barbados detachment with security.

@zoober8158 Год назад

@@stephenstott9690 wow interesting!

@JohnSmith-xd8do Год назад

If you want secret details of the Calvigny Barracks raid disaster message me

@alexanderhikel2350 3 месяца назад

Thanks for this I was looking for a good video on the conflict in Grenada since there isn’t a ton and this was really educational

@richardwhite3924 Год назад

I was an Army Counterintelligence Agent (MOS 35L) stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado when I got emergency orders to go to Grenada for the "Invasion". As a trained interrogator, I was supposed to go there and interrogate the many Cuban POWs that were anticipated to be captured. I arrived on October 25, 1983 and met with several other Agents who I knew from previous assignments who had also been pulled off their regular jobs. We all were either Vietnam veterans or had done time in Europe during the Cold War. We spent our time in Grenada working on our tans, swimming in the ocean and playing a lot of beach volleyball. We never saw any Cuban Army POWs or heard a shot fired in anger during the entire time we were there. We were flown back to our various bases on November 1, 1983, the day after the majority of the troops had left. A final "joke" - we were all awarded Army Commendation Medals for our swimming and volleyball playing.

@oldtruthteller2512 29 дней назад

So are you saying that none of this ever happened?

@oscar.esteves 26 дней назад

@@oldtruthteller2512 No, he went. He just didn't get to do his job.

@oscar.esteves 26 дней назад

Regardless of what you did, you were willing to go. TYFYS.

@coltonsnider7482 2 года назад

this entire video makes it seem like it was a cake walk. I wasn't there, but my dad was and he told me timings were off on everything, maps were shit, and a bunch of other things that the short time constraint didn't allow. Essentially, he told me it was a shit show.

@coltonsnider7482 2 года назад

a lot of the political stuff is accurate from what I've heard though

@tomaspita7244 Год назад

I was curious about casualties on our side and was surprised ot see they were so low and about on par with the Cubans. Nearly 8,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines had participated in Operation Urgent Fury, along with 353 Caribbean allies from the Caribbean Peace Forces. American forces sustained 19 killed and 116 wounded; Cuban forces sustained 25 killed, 59 wounded, and 638 combatants captured. 19/8000 = 0.002375 so it couldn't have been a "sh*tshow" per se. Imagine how snafu it would have been without NCOs. Sure there was probably sh*tty sergeant here and there and he might have been under one, but the structure allows for pockets of temporary chaos without destabilizing the entire operator. Let's hope Russia never learns that lesson

@mikestone9129 Год назад

Your dad was right. This video failed to mention many of the total failures of the operation. Including the disastrous insertion of the SEALS. And the poor intel that caused most of the casualties. This was a complete BS video.

@tomaspita7244 Год назад

@TerranCrusader Agreed

@Xero_Wolf Год назад

Indeed. I am a Grenadian and had the opportunity to speak with a Trinidad born soldier who was part of the US invasion force. He recalled it was chaos at one point because their our troops were firing at each other because of bad intel.

@Military-Museum-LP Год назад

Mr. President/ Comander in Chief you will never be forgotten.

@samueledgarpegram7088 Год назад

My brother was there, he was in the 82nd Airborne Division.

@mathewkulczyk1645 Год назад

When that happens I was stationed on a destroyer on 32nd Street Naval Station, San Diego. We got the call to stand by for possible deployment but that was canceled the next day. That was a day of an emotional roller coaster for me and many more aboard. Thanks for the men who actually went through that mess. 👍❤️🇺🇸

@MrSirDrumAlot Год назад

was a Corpsman at the on-shore clinic 32nd street....glad I got to miss all the shenanigan's =P

@ArmyVet82ndAbn Год назад

Thanks for the video! I deployed there with the 82nd Abn 307th Airborne Engineers as a 12B and company CO's RTO. A corporal from our company jumped in with the Rangers as a heavy eqipment operator to move bulldozers and other vehicles off the airfield. We air landed after the 75th Rangers had captured the airport at Point Salines. We captured tons of communist supplied weapons, ammo and supplies stored in wharehouses as well as clearing the airfield of Cuban and communist equipment on the airfield. That was my CO in the picture wit the captured Grenada flag.We also constructed barbed wire enclosures for Cuban and Grenadian prisoners. It was hot as fu*K is what I mostly remember besides taking fire from the hills, there were some snipers still fighting. Our air support was awesome, we happily called in air strikes and Cobra gunships on the Cubans who fired at us. Also had a run in with some Cuban armored cars BTRs. They didnt last long under fire from LAWs and 90mm recoiless rifles. We came home back to Ft Bragg just to be deployed to Panama.

@Tarah123100 11 месяцев назад

My dad was also deployed with the 82nd. He passed last year at age 59 from pneumonia and Hepatitis C. I have lots of photos of his time with the 82nd and am wondering if you might know him, his last name was Fenelon. I was estranged from him for many years, and would be so grateful to hear any stories or thoughts from this era.

@trevordswin 5 месяцев назад

Essayons

@eddiereyna2998 Год назад

One of our DS was a Grenada veteran . He was an Infantryman but he didn’t have as many medals as PFC Smoot who was in our cycle , who had been a Vietnam Veteran and a radioman .

@IMDunn-oy9cd Год назад

@H Drill Sergeant

@IMDunn-oy9cd Год назад

@H You are replying to the wrong person.

@albertjohnson5352 Год назад

I truly appreciate all of you guys !!! I've Lost Ranger Buddies & I truly Miss all of THEM.

@sebastiangarcia41910 Год назад

Do you know Trey Jolly? I work with him

@johnalarcon6375 Год назад

God bless rangers they led the way !!!! Someone I once met was a ranger lrrp as you know long range recon patrol !!!!!!!!

@BirdDogey1 Год назад

Shout out to paratrooper, Harry Shaw. He was seriously injured by friendly fire. Passed away last year.

@Stoddertwork Год назад

I took care of Harry when he was evac to San Antonio. I have often thought of him and his wife. His life was so tragic. The 82nd was a blessing for him til he got shot up by the A6.

@CrystalBeeMarriner Год назад

I knew harry, I believe he was with Charlie battery 1st320th during that mission.

@noelrobinson3254 Год назад

I saw it happen. The fighting was so close

@TheAnthraxBiology 5 месяцев назад

lmao what a loser

@Stoddertwork Месяц назад

How is Harry doing now? How is his wife?@@noelrobinson3254

@josephryan9230 Год назад

Grenada was important for two reasons, one strategic and one tactical. On the strategic side, up until the Grenada operation, communism had been on the march in Central America and the Caribbean. Nicaragua had fallen to the communists and a civil war was raging in El Salvador between the government and Marxist guerrillas. In the Caribbean, Grenada was being transformed into an arms transshipment point for communist-supported insurgencies in Latin America and Africa, with the lengthening of Point Salines airfield to 10,000 feet and the building of multiple arms warehouses nearby. Jamaica was in the midst of a bloody election battle, with one side fully supported by Cuba, and there were similar things taking place in Guyana. Once the Grenada operation occurred, a "line in the sand" had been drawn, making it clear to the Soviets that there were limits to their expansion efforts in the region. After October 1983, these efforts stalled, then declined, coming to an end after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Tactically-speaking, Grenada validated the 82nd Airborne's stated ability to achieve "wheels-up" in 18 hours or less. I was in the 82nd at the time, and we did not go on alert until Monday evening on October 24th. By Tuesday afternoon, the first infantry battalion from the 82nd was landing in Grenada. I challenge any other country to match that capability. When I was in the 82nd, the mantra was, "you're a phone call away from going to war," and they lived up to that standard.

@actionjackson1stIDF Год назад

I severed with several 82nd Airborne Troopers as well as some Vietnam Veterans who fought in Grenada. What I never understood was why those who saw their first combat in Grenada where awarded Combat Infantry Badges while those who had earned a CIB in Vietnam were not awarded a second CIB for their having fought in Grenada.

@MikeDarr61 Год назад

2/325 Bravo company. We lost our company commander in this action. Captain Michael Francis Ritz. For those that has never been to Ft. Bragg the fitness center was named after him along with SSGT Gary Epps. I feel so old can’t believe it’s been 40 years.

@matthewwagner47 Год назад

Because our government are facist and not fighting the good fight. The United States government is now the terrorist friend. Remember Asked my father (vietnam veteran),why does everyone hate us if we're on the good side? Because we're not friend.

@joesphmurphy4013 Год назад

Action Jackson: The Army never ended the Campaign which covered VietNam until after Grenada which made current holders of the CIB for the 2nd Award ineligible. I am going from memory so I could be a little hazy; the same situation happened in Panama; I don't remember guys receiving the award in Grenada being awarded the 2nd CIB award; again I could be wrong but maybe someone has the current regulation handy and can look it up. It would be interesting to know the answer.

@surlyfan Год назад

@@joesphmurphy4013 that’s a pretty good theory on why no second CIB, and similar to they were handled for a few other skirmishes lumped under the big GWOT umbrella.

@outlawandoutdoorstv9901 Год назад

Because a CIB means you were fired upon and returned fire with the enemy you dont get a CIB for every batte or deployment or war . Once you earned it you can always wear it and then your combat patch can show what units you went to war with. I served as a Infantryman during Iraq and Afghanistan and we didn't get 2 CIB one for Iraq one for Afghanistan. At least I didn't think ya did ? I served with a dude that served in Iraq and Afghanistan a total of 5 times and he didn't have 5 CIBs but he def fought the enemy every deployment

@unbreakable7633 Год назад

A friend of mine was one of those medical students. He said the hours were tense as they awaited the outcome. And my brother-in-law was an intelligence officer in the Navy during this operation, stationed on the USS Independence, one of the carriers supporting the operation.

@judiechurchill1780 9 месяцев назад

My brother was one of the students ❤️🙏

@mattcampbell4777 8 месяцев назад

I was a Marine E4 on the Indy and went to St. Georges. I was just waiting to get some chow and some students were loading up on a truck and someone called my name. I turned to look and it was one of the students, She was a classmate of mine in HS. She said "fancy meeting you here"......

@patrickmurphy5338 7 месяцев назад

My father was one of them

@straitjacket8689 2 года назад

I was with the 22nd MAU BLT 2/8 Hotel Btry we did the right thing going.The Cubans and Courd were brutalizing the Grenadians .If that wasn't enough they were building a military airstrip that would be detrimental to the security of much of tbe Caribbean.And til this day Grenadas Thanksgiving Day is 25 OCT .And any Grenadian I have met still thanks us

@borninvincible Год назад

The US always sticking it’s nose in a foreign countries internal business

@triuman Год назад

I was there with 60 SPS from Travis AFB. We had security of the airstrips in Grenada and Barbados.

@Outlander_1st Год назад

Wonderful to know & thank you for your service sir!! 🇺🇸

@dciccantelli Год назад

I was a medical student in Grenada back then. Thank you....!

@jameslovelace8958 Год назад

I was with the 82nd there. Man that was along time ago. I’m 62 now and if needed I’d fight today.

@williambroyhill7638 Год назад

I was in the Marine Corps stationed at Camp Lejeune when this took place, but wasn't part of this operation. However, I knew many who were. My utmost respect for all U.S. Military personnel involved.

@huntclanhunt9697 Год назад

@TerranCrusader That was more recent I think. I doubt the water there has been bad the whole 100 years the camp has been there.

@2000ViperGTSsubscribe Год назад

@@huntclanhunt9697 It was from 1953 to 1987 so he is covered. I am a DAV volunteer benefits officer and a veteran.

@huntclanhunt9697 Год назад

@@2000ViperGTSsubscribe Ah ok. Just checking.

@avnrulz8587 Год назад

I was stationed at a base which was developing weapons, and after the invasion we were told not to go to the airfield over a particular weekend. We did, obviously, and saw Soviet vehicles airlifted there from this incident.

@lt.petemaverickmitchell7113 Год назад

We did…..obviously. CLASSIC!

@petergreenwald9639 Год назад

Do you remember when we had leadership in the White House.

@huntclanhunt9697 Год назад

Met an old Vet in Ft. Klamath, Oregon, who was with the engineers that followed the paratroopers in. He had some amazing stories playing OpFor in training ops. He even got to meet General Omar Bradley.

@echohunter4199 Год назад

Wow! That would’ve been a conversation I’d never forgot! There was a lot of Marine and Army Vets that settled in the Klamath Falls area because they had a recovery facility for wounded Service Members due to the dry climate. The facility was then turned over to the County and used as the first Oregon Institute of Technology which had an excellent gun smith program, but not now of course.

@huntclanhunt9697 Год назад

@@echohunter4199 The guy worked at the Fort Klamath Museum. Had a giant mustache. He drove one of the CEV tractor/tank/recovery vehicles, and even managed to shoot down an Apache in a training exercise with the stubby main gun.

@deadsweetheart1 2 года назад

This and Panama will regrettably never be talked about in schools regrettably

@Infernal460 2 года назад

Anti left so... Yeah...

@michaelmontano4280 Год назад

Todd Welsh They should be.

@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 Год назад

We discussed both in school, Grenada was a liberation of the people from an oppressive radical government who were using foreign troops to quell the population into submission. Panama was worse as it was to stop the persecution of Americans and foreign citizens from the racial attacks by the thugs of Noriega’s “Dignity Battalions” not to mention the Panamanian Defense Force had killed several US officers at checkpoints prior to the escalation. Both were completely deserved and should be talked about, not from the false standpoint of “imperialism” but from the standpoint of crushing violent radical leftist ideology that has killed 100s of millions

@benjaminjaskoski1334 Год назад

Regrettably.

@damirsirotic052 Год назад

@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 What a colorful bowl of bollocks they served you at school, but still you still ate it all up. About Grenada, the United Nations General Assembly condemned it as "a flagrant violation of international law" on 2 November 1983 by a vote of 108 to 9, enough said. In Panama, the US intervened to remove Noriega, who was btw a longtime American ally and collaborator of the CIA in the fight against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, after possible indictments for corruption and cooperation with drug cartels from Colombia, which the US could no longer turn a blind eye to. Fearing a possible arrest, Noriega turns to Cuba and the Soviet Union, and at that moment, before he receives any military aid and after an unsuccessful attempt at a military coup instigated by the CIA, the US decides to remove him with direct military action. Stories about military interventions to spread democracy and protect civilians in the countries where they intervene are stories for small children, because civilians are the ones who suffer the most in such interventions, and democracy has not taken root in any country where the US tried to "impose" it by force (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya). Did they mention to you at school that protecting the Vietnamese from themselves, the US and its allies killed more than a million of them? Ever heard about the village of Mỹ Lai or did the teacher skip it??

@FlatsToLet Год назад

Clint Eastwood's Heartbreak Ridge

@CrystalBeeMarriner Год назад

I was with 1st BN 320th field artillery unit during this operation, and yes there were army rangers, but also half the 82nd airborne paratroopers deployed there. Army SSG retired 16yrs 6months.

@lt.petemaverickmitchell7113 Год назад

Thank you for your service Staff Sergeant.

@derekfuller8103 Год назад

Thank you for your service! It's good hearing about the people who still are greatful, and appreciate the U,S for fighting for their freedom! All American All the way!

@outwardpanicjoe8950 Год назад

Did the 82nd also para jump into grenada?

@grantbablitz9835 Год назад

I was visiting friends on the island who took me the farmer's union. There I saw the 22 orange Belarus tractors from Russia. The Marines shot bullets into the engine blocks removing any threat that the tractors may have presented to freedom and democracy.

@manuelcardoza733 3 месяца назад

Excellent Job! It would be nice one on the Invasion of Panama by the 7the Light Infantry División

@chrischapman4121 Год назад

I was born in 83..my 1st job when I was 16 I worked with a guy who parachuted in. He said some were shot before they hit the ground. He said he played dead in the rain for 3 days..said bad bad guys were walking right past him. Some might call bullshit, but if you knew him I don't think you'd think so. I shamefully at the time didn't even know about this.

@bradleyogurek3124 Год назад

Last name was Johnson? I new someone in battalion that happened to.

@5222k Год назад

Grenada and Panama. Urgent Fury and Just Cause... Sandwiched between the shadows of Vietnam, and the fall of the Soviet Union. Major events that lead to these two operations being all but forgotten about.

@5222k Год назад

@a LoLz. Your frozen pizza is ready. Hurry to the kitchen before it gets cold and your Mom gets pissed off.

@svosprey Год назад

Was in a bar in Grenada 20 years ago that had pieces of a US helicopter that was shot down hanging on the walls.

@pauldarling330 Год назад

There is so much factually wrong with this. But it is interesting none the less.

@sheldongrenada Год назад

Like the belief they were actually facing Cubans all over and not Grenadian regulars and Militia......FACTUALLY wrong...but then again they can't tell us apart.......

@christopherwood2796 Год назад

One of my drill sgts in basic training was in Grenada with the 82nd airborne.

@jnjferreira Год назад

I was there with the 2/508th Abn Inf from the 82nd. Fun times...thanks for the memories!

@user-wf4oh2yj3g 6 месяцев назад

I was a young woman in Jamaica at the time. I remember the phone call from the Barbadian Prime Minister to the Jamaican Prime Minster advising what happened and asking for help.

@devertonpasley4942 6 месяцев назад

Edward Seaga didnt like Maurice Bishop. Conflicting ideologies and he supported the Americans. While had Michael Manley was in power, he would got help.

@jeffyoung60 Год назад

Little was known about this footnote until years after the Grenada, "Urgent Fury" Operation. The U.S. Army and Marines confronted a large contingent of Cuban military advisors. The Cubans put up fierce resistance, much to the surprise of the Americans. The local Grenadian military folded quickly but the Cubans fought on like cornered tigers. There is a likely explanation. Cuban dictator, generalissimo Fidel Castro united the Cuban People and promoted Cuban nationalism based on disdain and hatred of the United States. Hatred of Uncle Sam's Yanquis remained a powerful tool of the communist totalitarian Cuban regime's propaganda campaign to keep the Cuban People united in support of the Fidel regime and to follow its communist programs. In 1983 the Cuban communist takeover was only 24 years old. Hatred of the United States was still going strong among the Cubans. This is likely what encouraged the Cuban military contingent to put up a fierce struggle against the American G.I.s and Marines. The U.S. military actually had to plan and initiate a real military campaign to overwhelm the Cubans. Analysts later believe that had the Cubans stationed a sizeable Cuban army on Grenada, things would have gone far more difficult for the U.S. As it was, the battalion-size Cuban contingent put up a fight that was out of proportion to their size. They were motivated to hate America and to kill Americans. In 2023, according to many news reporters from the U.S. and elsewhere, you don't find that same hatred of the U.S. anymore in Cuba, except among the lingering, old-age Cuban revolutionary diehards. Most of the Cuban population was born after the 1959 Cuban communist takeover. For most of today's Cubans, the U.S. is now thought of as the place to escape to rather than endure the prolonged economic privations of Cuba.

@jackwalker9492 Год назад

Not true. The Cubans bitced out like wussies after we killed a lot of them and the Grenadians hated them and turned them in at every opportunity. The Cubans fought as hard as terrified pussies. (Without) love. A co 3/325 IRC (Initial Reaction Company/82nd) You need to shut the fuck up and know jack shit pansie.

@Gab-jo6jg Год назад

Fidel was no a General

@gianca60 Год назад

Today the hatred against USA, is most in the USA itself .

@reddeserted13 Год назад

@@Gab-jo6jg Just a winner.

@brianjones7660 Год назад

@@reddeserted13 he won every single election ....oh wait...never mind.

@gm-qn8ri Год назад

Never heard of the 82nd Army Airborne Rangers from Ft Bragg LOL

@LiterallyOverTheHillAdventures Год назад

The 1s/75th from Hunter Army Airfield and the 2/75th from Ft. Lewis are the two Ranger Battalions that jumped in, the 82nd had, if I recall, a couple of engineers that jumped with the Rangers.

@garycook6717 Год назад

I went to Grenada on holiday a few years back. One of the locals took us on a tour round the Island. He took us to Pearl Airport . You could still see the bullet holes in the old buildings . Thank god America took back Grenada before it became a mini Cuba.

@Withnail1969 Год назад

What do you mean took it back? It wasn't American territory.

@garycook6717 Год назад

@@Withnail1969 It was originally part of the English commonwealth . The Island belongs to the Grenadian people.

@noelrobinson3254 Год назад

He means took it back from the communists, but China has purchased most of the island now

@Withnail1969 Год назад

@@garycook6717 If you believed that you wouldn't have invaded it.

@spehhhsssmarineer8961 4 месяца назад

@@Withnail1969 Yes, the military coup was totally the will of the people. What a joke.

@Sandhill1988 Год назад

One of my best friends was one of the Rangers that took part in this operation. Sgt Perry if you're reading this love you brother.

@LDM662 Год назад

I was in 2/8 Comm plt attached to 81mm mortor plt. 2 tours in Beirut and 1 in Grenada

@calvinballew5411 Год назад

Friend and neighbor Lcpl David Gay was in your unit I believe. He was killed in the bombing of the BLT. Semper fi

@LDM662 Год назад

@@calvinballew5411 that was 1/8, we were in Grenada when that happened

@calvinballew5411 Год назад

@L.D yeah I know that. He was already in Beirut as we were headed there. Bad days

@nickybatts686 Год назад

Semper Fi Brother. Never ate another mango again

@markgreiser464 Год назад

I was proud to pass out the Beans and Bullets, at Green Ramp. I was waiting to Medical out, so I was not going. Love you , all. AATW

@hectorchitovillator3275 Год назад

My retired US Army brother have been in this operation..

@alanmoffat4454 Год назад

OK BUT NOBODY TOLD THE BRITS THATS NOT A NICE MOVE NOW IS IT .

@kixigvak Год назад

A New York fashion photographer was doing a swimsuit shoot there. When the invasion began he and his models retreated to their motel. One of the models grabbed a big purse and filled it with Hasselblad cameras, lenses, and film. The girls then pushed the protesting photographer out the door with orders to photograph the Marines. He got some great photos.

@joepolach9725 Год назад

Tanks! Where's the video of the Marine M60 tanks? My brother was a tanker in the Grenada operation; his picture got in Time magazine.

@345mrse Год назад

This Grenada episode was longer than I thought. Clint Eastwood had clocked it in as a three hour war.

@kCI251 Год назад

I like that he actually said, "Marines rushed in to rescue to Navy Seals".

@XavierKatzone Год назад

Salute! 👍🏻👍🏻❤️

@WombatXBT Год назад

Interesting to see the U.S. still using solid OD Green uniforms as late as 1983.

@michaelmil841 Год назад

Probably was the Rangers, army issued me 12 sets of OD fatigues in 84 (3rd Ranger Bat).

@kevinhines7917 Год назад

I went through boot camp and AIT in early 1983. We were issued a mix of OD fatigues and the new woodland camo BDUs.

@tomsherwood4650 Год назад

At my AFB in NC, one day a couple C-130 did those crazy assault landings and a ton of Army guys got out. Seemed strange. They left later and next day surprise. They was on their way there.

@Scott.Farkus Год назад

19:03 As I recall none of the troops on Grenada had blank adapters on their weapons.

@paratrooperlane7022 Год назад

Blank adapters on their weapons? You truly don't know what you are talking about do you?

@Scott.Farkus Год назад

@@paratrooperlane7022 If you review the footage at 19:03 you'll see a guy with a blank adapter on his weapon.

@kevinhines7917 Год назад

Good eye. I missed the BFA the first time watching. Probably footage from some CONUS training exercise.

@Ozzy-R Год назад

In ‘83 during this short conflict, we were at a rodeo that weekend at Roosevelt Roads Naval Air Station in Puerto Rico. All day long saw planes landing and taking off from the base taking part in the operation. We knew what was going on, actually missed the base entrance since it was bulldozed to conceal it, finally found it and got into the base, security was very tight. I was 17 at the time, it was impressive.

@Ltulrich Год назад

This turned into a fantastic Operation Flashpoint mission.

@buildingtolive5738 Год назад

Was at home watching this on the news. Months later I was in 1st Batt. B co. 1st Plt. 1st Sqd. About 85% of the Plt. had Mustard stains. My last Squad Leader was the first Ranger to hit the ground in Urgent Fury. His Uniform is in the Ft. Benning Hall of Fame. man how time fly's. RLTW (The Beav)

@ltgreen6626 Год назад

I went in with the 82nd, C- 2-505th, spent all my time in the mountains, took sniper fire mostly, had a M-16 and an old WW2 era 1911. I couldnt hit the side of a barn with my nose pressed against it with that old 45. definitely shot out and in need of a new barrel but none available at the time. Cut a piece of paracord, tied one end to the lanyard and the other end to my bdu belt loop and belt, kept it tucked under my belt with the spare mag in my pocket. There was an FO that I knew and worked with, he had transferred to a Ranger battalion at some point and went in with a Ranger unit on the beach in an air assault op. blackhawk landed on top of him and broke his back, paralyzed him. Another Ranger buddy took an AK round to the shoulder. I Was on patrol one night and m-60 gunner took a sniper round to the head. We had guys going back and forth to and from the Ranger units. Problem was, if you got in trouble and got arrested, got a criminal record of any kind, you couldnt stay in the ranger units, you were kicked back to the 82nd. You could not be a Ranger if you had any kind of an arrest/criminal record, at least that is how it use to be, dont know if that has changed or not. 82nd was not as strict.

@keithsurrett4717 Год назад

I had just EOS 1 MONTH before from the 82nd 2/505th when the operation began! I'm proud of my unit and what they accomplished!!!!! AIRBORNE!

@JohnSmith-xd8do Год назад

If you want secret details of the Calvigny Barracks raid disaster message me

@reneramirez8016 Год назад

Thank you

@mitchgalietta6564 Год назад

Gunny Highway won this war

@JohnStark72 Год назад

My thanks to all veterans & active duty who posted comments to this video.

@jamesmontgomery9464 Год назад

i was told it was all about the airfield being able to support the Tu-95, the Soviets had planned to station 3 there. then they would have one at all times flying along the east coast with nuclear cruise missiles. they wanted the airfield captured before it could be completed.

@gregorywhitus2148 Год назад

Marine combat vet ramadi government center 2006-2008, much respect watching the history of my brothers before me , remember the fallen, they are all that matter!

@whoknowsidont.5147 Год назад

Tough to watch. Thank you to all. One of my neighbors was in that retrieval mission. Fort Bragg Men. Multi force attack. Welcome home Protectors.

@SheepDogActual Год назад

82nd Airborne. 313th MI BN

@jerryrichards8172 Год назад

Ronald Regan the best president we ever had. When he was in office when I was watching TV a comercial would come on it was the American flag waving and the national anthem would play. After he left office that comercial never came on again. Marines rushing in to save the seals. You never hear that.

@cjm7685 2 года назад

31 trillion in debt now. We cannot go on much longer.

@danbanks7930 Год назад

It was such an exciting conflict it only got one hollywood-movie Heartbreak Ridge

@RobPetty622 Год назад

Not a single mention of how the different services had trouble communicating with each other resulting in losses and casualties. Great to see the footage, but not a serious discussion of the operation.

@jahbaribertrand4813 Год назад

Remember this time well I was in form 3 in SJCSS

@woodrowwinters4159 2 года назад

82nd. Army Airborne Rangers? Huh?

@Graebarde 2 года назад

Yep caught that one. Media needs to research and check..

@plexisgaming 2 года назад

Yup, they were there.

@pfdrtom 2 года назад

@@plexisgaming Not only there but Rangers kicked the door in with a daylight parachute drop. Why daylight when they train to go in darkness? The Marines asked them to wait until first light because they had no night vision but the Rangers did. Go figure.

@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 Год назад

@@pfdrtom “the army gets satellites and we get stuck with this shit” every marine ever

@GardenerEarthGuy Год назад

This and Panama were the high tide of US Military war fighting, everything else before and after is stalemate or retreat.

@brianazmy3156 8 месяцев назад

No mention of the Seals who drowned and were never recovered. Hard to believe the army issued the CIB to the Infantry units. My understanding is that 30 days of combat operations is needed to qualify. This was over and secured in a week. I was home before Thanksgiving.

@rooftopcat1785 Год назад

82nd ABN 3/4th ADA, VULCAN, STINGER. there were also medical students stuck down there getting cheap degrees. And needed to be extracted. 🙄

@davidmccann9811 Год назад

A mixture of modern Kevlar helmets and old steel M1s.

@jessemontanez4661 3 месяца назад

I was in operation just cause.. panama..1989.. Dec.. army infantry veteran salute to the club..5th division mech...ft Polk La..hoowah!!!

@cliffordnewell2445 2 года назад

Grenada was the most momentous military clash in history.

@ziauddinkhan5699 2 года назад

LMAOOO

@straitjacket8689 2 года назад

May not have been the that "monumentous"but we saved the Grenadians from a very brutal Marxist regime.

@Hugh-Glass 2 года назад

Well, if you had been shot there, or had been a citizen it would have been.

@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 Год назад

It was arguably the biggest flex of the “modern” American peacetime military. Followed up by Panama and then the Gulf War.

@RoseRose-nt4ju Год назад

@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 and people say we lost all our modern wars 😂

@cirrus4string Год назад

USS Independence CV-62. Really busy cruise that year

@jayjay-bz3rr Год назад

I was in Army basic training during this time. I missed out

@AMCmachine 3 месяца назад

Thanks for posting this informative and interesting video, I was a kid when the invasion took place, but I remember it and those times well. Grenada, Lebanon, the 1981 US Navy dogfight with Libyan warplanes, (first US air combat since Vietnam) the Falklands, Afghanistan, the Soviets downing the Korean airliner, the brutal Iran-Iraq War, Nicaragua and El Salvador, Israel in Lebanon, etc. Conflict was raging everywhere within the wider framework of the Cold War. I had found the following info in an article a while back regarding some of the arms and military hardware captured by US forces in Grenada in the wake of Urgent Fury: "This is not an unusual move by a socialist government that employ's large numbers of Cuban 'advisers.' Back in the early '80s, the Marxist New Jewel movement that seized power in the tiny Caribbean nation of Grenada (population about 100,000) likewise established a "People's Revolutionary Army" (trained by hundreds of Cubans and North Koreans) as well as a party militia. When an even more radical faction of the party overthrew and murdered the previous leadership the U.S. intervened, with the ostensible purpose of protecting the hundreds of U.S. medical students studying at universities on the island. After the Marxist forces were defeated the U.S. troops captured the following quantities of weapons: 180 PPS 43 Submachineguns in 7.62x25mm Tokarev 1,120 Czech Vz 52 Rifles in 7.62x39mm 4,074 SKS-45 rifles in 7.62x39mm 2,432 Mosin Nagant Rifles 7.62x54Rmm 1,626 AKMS 7.62x39mm 9 PKM Machineguns 7.62x39mm 8 SPG-9 Kopye (Spear) 73mm Recoilless Rifles plus 78 RPG-2 and RPG7 antitank grenade launchers. 10 82mm Mortars 12 ZU-23-2 Anti-Aircraft guns as well as an undetermined number of DShK 12.7mm heavy machine guns 4 Ex-Cuban ZiS-3 76.2mm Field guns 10 BTR-60/BRDM-2 armored vehicles. (No other Caribbean island nation had armored vehicles) Over 5.5 million rounds of 7.62 ammunition were found in warehouses on the island."

@MrTrooper82 Год назад

We smoked 2 BTRs with dragons up the hill from the airport. Got into a short firefight with 20 or so Cubans. They stopped firing dropped their weapons and started running toward us waving white t shirts and anything else white. Every platoon brought in prisoners. There were hundreds of them by the time we left 17days later.

@Blap552 Год назад

Excellent work Sir! I really didn't care for all the fearful rumors about G.I.s' short survival rates during combat that I heard in '79-'80. That was one of the reasons I got out. Hopefully guys don't say things like that to eachother any more. God love ya!🙂👍

@jasongreene6311 Год назад

Cool, I was a dragon gunner in the Marines in the late 90s. It's good to hear it mentioned.

@Blap552 Год назад

@Jason Greene what's the accurate range on those? I did a practical application with a Law and hit the target but it was pretty close and I heard laws' weren't very effective!

@JohnSmith-xd8do Год назад

If you want secret details of the Calvigny Barracks raid disaster message me

@whiskybooze Год назад

People may not believe this but I don't care. My high school sociology teacher was Special Forces in Grenada as he claims which I believe. He got out after that got a law degree working with a big law firm in Chicago and made enough money to retire and take care of his girls Took up teaching and he was so cool. He would show Martial Arts stuff and Ju Jujitsu.

@glenknapke6771 Год назад

The platoon l leader died Edward Ellis

@williamosgood7096 Год назад

Not the way I heard it.....A 75th airborne rangers!

@whoknowsidont.5147 Год назад

19 seconds Go ahead countem off. That was a hard stop. Thank all you NAVY MARINES ARMY AIRFORCE COAST GUARD ALL AND ANY. USALL

@binder946 Год назад

In movie anger management one of the character was a guy who played PTSD And said things like " I have seen things man I have seen things🤣".

@GiveMeaFuckingBreakDude 8 месяцев назад

What a beautiful place

@pfdrtom 5 месяцев назад

Wow, they did not do their homework on this video. The Rangers are NOT part of the 82nd Airborne and never have been. There are many other mistakes in this video.

@zephaneas Год назад

So much of the narrative of this video is wrong: 1. The Rangers took the airfield not the Marines. 2. The Marines rescued the St. Georges students, not the Army. 3. The Army flies Apache attack helicopters, not Cobras 4. The Marines fly Cobras attack helicopters, not Apaches 5. Rangers don't use amphibious vehicles, the Marines do Probably more wrong info too

@gianca60 Год назад

Gunny rescued the students.

@josephryan9230 Год назад

I took part in the Grenada operation with the 82nd. The Rangers rescued the students at both the True Blue and the Grand Anse campuses. There was a shot-down Army CH-47 in the water adjacent to the Grand Anse campus. I know that because I spent a week at the campus and could see it from my room. The Marines use CH-46s. Both the Army and the Marines flew Cobras in Grenada. Apaches weren't adopted by the Army until 1986.

@ExtremelyhappyPaybacktim-og6ro Год назад

Great man captain Trevino

@thurmanluper5885 Год назад

My DS Baskerville fought in this operation. He always said it was what prompted him to become a DS. He was an excellent DS, Fort Sill Oklahoma 1985-1986

@derricks2835 3 месяца назад

In VF-11 a shipmate D. Gonsalves Marine brother was killed during that suicide truck bomb. But I believe before LT Robert Goodman and Lt. Lange were shot down over Bierut Lebanon. USS John F. Kennedy.

@chalmerscharitycrouse7834 Год назад

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@stuff2share564 10 месяцев назад

From 5th June to 3rd July 1983 I was in Grenada with a filming crew of 20. The local troops were already highly visible and we were often escorted. As it was all precautionary, before it all kicked off in October, the troops found some amusement being filmed on the beach for one of the scenes. You can see a trailer for the low budget movie, inc troops, here. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZCdbhZ1Gj9Y.html

@markklippenberg7364 Год назад

Not a single shot of gunny Highway on the whole video. Shame

@binder946 Год назад

What does gerenda have that is strategic Oil gas some other natural resource military bases strategic location. I don't know what they have.

@michaelbumgardner771 Год назад

The narrator said Jamaica is a neighboring island. Not.

@sonnysantana5454 Год назад

i got my purple heart there worst case of sunburn ever

@pizzafrenzyman Год назад

Where's gunny Highway?

@BALOYBEACHBUM Год назад

I was stationed at Guantanamo Bay during this, we was put on alert and spouses where instructed to stand-by for evacuation incase of invasion of the base. Days before US ships not on our list of training, where coming in and out taking on personnel, fuel and ammo, as a instructor there, we was ready incase of invasion!

@banditeastlick2471 2 года назад

Always someone trying to step on nice people.... Crimes against humanity is easier to do than one may think.

@rickjohnson9558 Год назад

Where was Gunny Highway?

@daveperala4723 Год назад

I had just left Beirut when this went down. We heard about the deployment and foolishly thought they were coming to our aid. Get a little payback. Not gonna lie, some of us felt betrayed, left out in the cold, hung out to dry. Not happy campers at all.

@nickybatts686 Год назад

Stopped off to bail out the Army on the way back to Beirut

@huntclanhunt9697 Год назад

The marines that went to Grenada were originally intended for Beirut but were shifted last minute

@derekcolvin9944 Год назад

If I remember correctly we were in blue week during basic training when this occurred. Our drill instructor Staff Sergeant Guy, came into our barracks flipped on the light banging on a trash can telling us to wake up. I questioned him directly, I asked him why would they send untrained recruits to war? I did lots of push-ups

@jackwalker9492 Год назад

Punk. If what you say is true your DI should have killed you.

@avazons Год назад

When the US infantry got to the north of the island a few days after the invasion, I looked out the window and spotted them across the street and thought," Wow! That's little boys, younger than me(19), their uniforms(Fatigues) looked so new".