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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The footage & the music seems even older than the conflict!! LOL😆
@ Heisenberg I agree to footage do seem older, but the music is actually spot-on for 1983.
@@jodyfiore8200 Really? Huh... good ear.
RLTW!
Yeah dude standard 80s style carribean beat...every carribean knows that old stereotypical beat lolz...."unda tha sea".
It's rad
They forgot Clint Eastwood and Mario van Peebles were also there lmao
I gave you a like , just for mentioning Mario.😅
@@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
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
Great experience!
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?
Too bad Reagan didn’t care enough about the lives of US forces to not engage in wars of aggression
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.
Thank you for your service commander for helping Grenada 🇬🇩🇬🇩in a crisis
This documentary lasted longer than the war itself.
A swift invasion and takeover done by an advanced U.S. force
The US has not had a war since 1945.
@@buckberthod5007 Afghanistan
@@bigjimmy3792 Still not a war
@@buckberthod5007 So? Who cares? It's still another addition to the loss column.
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
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.
Only one of many misspellings and mispronunciations throughout this video.
Whoever came up with the name “snake eye retarded bombs” needs a promotion.
@@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.
We salute you.
THANKS for that operation.
From India.
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 !
I love American exceptionalism and the 1980’s
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....
They were made for each other.
Wait til you hear about the 2000s! And 2010s! And 2020s!
👨🦳
“This is the AK47. It makes a very distinct sound when fired at you”
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."
What are you looking at?
Get outta my L.Z.
Love that film
Love that movie
Clint making up for missing the korean war!
Gunny Highway....A legend.
Reagan the Legend! 👍
Reagan merely gave the order it was the generals and soldiers who actually carried it out they are the legends.
Have you both lost your minds ?? Oh okay let me guess Clinton too right .. smh
@@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.
And John Wayne as his secretary of defense, attacking one small country after the other 😅
@@ignatziusturret5641 Excellent President and how would you compare President Reagan to President Biden ????
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
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.
I was there too. First cruise. In OI division and I can tell you CIC was an interesting place to be on that cruise.
October 1983 my Marine unit and I was in Beruit helping with the evac after the barracks bombing.
Thank you for your service🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@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?
Not many Americans at the time that didn't have people in deployment, knew how serious this event was!
It was a pathetic display of imperialism.
@@Toy1ertell that to the Grenadians.
@@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.
@@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.
@@johnr797 my point is that they consider the date of the invasion a holiday called “thanksgiving day”
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.
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
"We got there just in time unfortunately, we didn't have time to inform the British."
What an unpleasant beginn..
We watch this to chill man
I remember watching this on TV and talking about it at school.
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.
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.
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
you realize that after Vietnam, college kids protested returning US troops right? you sound exactly like Nixon back in his day.
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.
@@gregmunn2945 Then why were they CHEERING when US soldiers arrived to rescue them?
BS,you have know idea what your talking about.
@@master3HORSE well if they were cheering, it literally meant that they weren't in any sort of danger.
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”.
The intro song made it seem like it was a training video for work
Retail store or fast food lol
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
Aya-tollah of Rock & Rollah sir!
@@rolfagten857 yyyyoooo I'm dying right now 😂😆😂😆😂😆
@@mulletoutdooradventures6286 Short battle, lots of fun!
RIP Pvt Profile.
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 😂
Y’all wasn’t happy to go to Afghanistan
@@javanni1596 How would you know...
@@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
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.
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.
It was in the news at the time. Lol
Weeeel, We were there also, it wasn't just the Doggies at the School. 22 AmFib @@thebusybuilder4071
“Look for the brand new, big cars; those are the communists.”
Nothing changes except the location.
I love how honest the people are, they don’t care about western politics
Nothing like Champaign Socialism
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
USA picked on them for being unique.
@@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!
@@richwinds7179 Capitalism doesn't work too. America killing people just to save the dollar.
@@richwinds7179 you must love your Augustos Pinochet
Fulgencio Batista
Both communist AND red coats!
**Raging eagle in humvee noises**
AC-130 was originally called puff the magic dragon
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.
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.
Ronnie Raygun
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.
"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!!"
Thank you for your service
You should contact "Combat Stories"-Podcast with Ryan Fugit. I would like to hear all of them!
Antigua Wisconsin?? I am confused
I loved Antigua and actually went to an American base to watch a movie outside at a small theater they set up.
*Cuba:*
• 24 killed
• 59 wounded
• 638 captured
• 2 transport aircraft captured
The 82nd Airborne; unmatched achievers!
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.
😂😂😂😂 yeah looks like you were up against a a formidable enemy
Typical dramatic Americans
Against Cuban cooks and a 3 legged dog.
You guys were asking the Marines there for batteries to put in your PRC 77 radios because you forgot to bring some with you.
What against a rag tag bunch of partisan fighters?
Gotta love those Phabulous Phrogs :) Also, Cobras didnt have a 7.62mm mini gun. They had a 20mm 3 barrel M-197 rotary cannon.
20mm is even better
THat's the best news I've heard throughout this documentary
Exactly
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.
It's cool to see this because I've heard this talked about on podcasts on Sean Ryan's podcast and on mike drop
love the canadian embassy rep sitting there smoking a pipe like a boss during the speech at 14:07
October 83. XVIII Airborne Corps. Can't believe it's been that long ago.
Brand new Staff Sergeant going in.
Heartbreak Ridge
A complete B.S of a movie
Classic
🎵The lights
In the harbor
Dont shine for me.
Im
Like a lost ship
Adrift on the sea
Sea of heart break.🎶
@@chucks_88 absolutely...totally inaccurate.....
Thanks
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.......
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.
@@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.
Combat jump yes. Not Senior or Master wings.
@@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.
@@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.
one of the forgotten invasions
God bless America!!!!
Wait till the Swede gets out of the brigg
T h e S w e e e e d
Never say only when talking about the KIA. That is a big only. Semper Fi!
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 !
The six barrel Vulcan gun is better known as Puff or Gatling gun.
A well-intended video, the misidentifications and mispronunciations make this unpleasant to watch.
Easiest way to anger a Grenadian....is to mispronounce the name of our country as this narrator has done.
Boo hoo
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.
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...
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.
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.
Am proud to be an American citizen 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
That's the flag of Liberia. WTF? 😂😂😂
That would be "liberation" of Grenada. Thank you.
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.
You still lost to goatfarmers in sandals lmao
@@zurdochileno3230we won the conventional war easily, but you can’t win against a determined and resistant populace. At least, not without morally reprehensible tactics
@@danielwoods3896 its almost like they didn't want you in there
Woke strang.....
@@zurdochileno3230its almost like we planned the chaotic evacuation before hand
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
SEALS took a beating on this...
Yup lost some good men needlessly
Yep, that's why 6 years later in Panama, they jumped instead of coming by sea
Meanwhile in Beirut we were down a whole company and Ronnie Reagan had sent a relief to Granada
*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
Americas only success in a conflict on its on is against Grenada 🇬🇩 .
Ronald Reagan? The actor?
No. Ronald Reagan. The president
@@OGKenG Lighten up, Francis.
26:46 that is really rich 🤑 lmao
It reminded me of
The Mouse That Roared.
That’s Awesome 👏 and also for the people and children to be happy 😃 that liberated there country.God Bless Us All 🙏👍👋😎😀
It's always amusing to hear them pronounce the island's name
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
Ranger's jumped from that height as well, I was a Ranger as well a 500 foot drop is bot unheard of
only 2 82nd guys jumped, but reap the glory, easier to talk about than to actually do
We are literally always at war
Cope
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.
These were the days.. 😎✌🏻 Semper Fi
Thank you for your service.
This pretty good video. Spot on. I should know I was one of those that jumped on that runway......WHAT A RIDE!!!
*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
I think it said 5 m60 tanks
Maybe because the U.K is 5000 miles away?
Yup my brother was one of the seals crew taking heavy casualties
The cheese factor of this soundtrack is so high that all nearby rats are now diabetics 😅
Good documentary I really enjoyed it.
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.
america admit to another failure in the military? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Media means propaganda.
The EU didn't exist in 1983.
@@Ghatbkk ok the EEC
Nope. Stop posting stuff proving you have no idea what you are talking about.
I was stationed at ft.stewart ga. I wanted to go,but gen.schcorpaff
Took the rangers at hunter army airfield rangers.
Stich Jones never goes to war without his plastic...
We can’t forget about the nighstalkers that we’re apart of this also
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.
I’m off to watch Heartbreak Ridge!
Jeez. It's just one long commercial for the US military.
I made a fantastic Operation Flashpoint campaign around this
…enjoyed my brief visit there. College paid for. Hoo-rah.
*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
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.
No one cares.
Many civilian militia too. They wore two piece uniforms made out of white sheeting. They stuck out like sore thumbs.
Are you alright, sir?
Is this meant to be a 'Wooooooo!! USA USA!!' Kind of comment?
I was -1 years old during those events
Invasion of a bunch of farmers with cutless.
What a load of lies about Muammar Gadaffi!
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!
You are right. The heavily armed combat engineers never had a chance at victory but I saw them kill several of us
Also Mr President Reagan was a Leader.RIP Sir
"Are we going to see the President?"
"No sir, you're the President, they're here to see you."
"Great, that's great."
Yes he was.
If only all war's were such walk's on the park. No disrespect meant.
Truth is most of them are. Iraq and Afghanistan were over with within months. But we stayed and got involved in things we really shouldn't have and ended staying for 20 years and lot of blood and sweat and tears.
Wasn't a walk in the park for the 19 Americans that got KIA. We lost 241 Service members in Beiruit and 19 in Grenada in a span of a few days. I was a young Marine with Fox Company 2/8 22 MAU. Grenada and Beirut..
@@jamesbrewer1130 Yes, I guess I phrased myself poorly. Especially for those who actually participated. Respect.
Grenada had a strong army back then need back one now in these days I am proud of the army back then
Cool Gulf and Libia bonus content in the second half. NIce!
This is an hour long commercial
Grenada ...... wait a minute that Clint eastwood movie with the Aya tollah from Rock and Rollah was about that too. Yes Heartbreak Ridge from 1986. Weak war movie man!
Matatan.🔥🤔🔥. Ribirin HS,
*Civilians:*
• 24 civilians killed (18 of them when a mental hospital was accidentally bombed by the U.S. Navy A-7s)
Accidentally sure but i would not be quick on saying that
Weren't those Cobras armed with a three barrel 20 mm vulcan in the nose?
I enjoyed the video
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".
Absolutely correct. And he did nothing to the perpetrators who bombed the barracks.
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.
Yes, Reagan was a terrific President.
This does not mention the many mishaps that happened. It was so bad that congress passed a bill to correct it, the Goldwater-Nichols Act en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldwater%E2%80%93Nichols_Act . This correction was very important during Desert Storm.
Ruined by ads
The narrator never spoke English before this documentary.
Yup I like that ray gun! 😮
I went from Grenada back to Beirut.
I haven’t seen Gunny Highway? Where is recon?