Grenada 1983: Reagan's Cold War Gamble | Operation Urgent Fury
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Published 2022-03-16
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All Comments (21)
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They forgot Clint Eastwood and Mario van Peebles were also there lmao
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The footage & the music seems even older than the conflict!! LOLš
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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.
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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
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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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This documentary lasted longer than the war itself.
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October 1983 my Marine unit and I was in Beruit helping with the evac after the barracks bombing.
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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
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āThis is the AK47. It makes a very distinct sound when fired at youā
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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.
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I remember watching this on TV and talking about it at school.
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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.
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It's cool to see this because I've heard this talked about on podcasts on Sean Ryan's podcast and on mike drop
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Not many Americans at the time that didn't have people in deployment, knew how serious this event was!
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Thanks
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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 š
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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.
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I was there with the 3/325th AIR, 82nd. I see now the meaning behind the saying, āthe 11th man in a Marine squad is a camera manā.
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The intro song made it seem like it was a training video for work
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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.
