That evening President Ronald Reagan gave his final approval for Operation Urgent Fury— the American invasion not of Lebanon but of Grenada. Two battalions of elite U.S. Army Rangers had ...

The invasion served as proof of concept that Reagan was a tough anti-Communist with the foreign policy chops to guide the US back into a global leadership position.

According to "The U.S. Invasion of Grenada: Legacy of a Flawed Victory ... Port Salines with Air Force combat controllers. The 75th Ranger Regiment conducted an air assault to capture the newly ...

POINT SALINES, Grenada — At 5:36 a.m., hundreds of Army Rangers, loaded down with combat ... Three days prior to the invasion, the Cubans had been training with anti-aircraft weapons, shooting ...

better known as the invasion of the island of Grenada. I want to take a moment to honor the men who sacrificed so much during that operation. On Oct. 25, 1983, approximately 600 Rangers from two ...

Four decades after the invasion of Grenada, former Army Ranger medics from 2nd Ranger Battalion had returned to within meters of where they landed in parachutes, pointing out old positions of ...

Thirty-five years ago, in late October, 1983, U.S. troops under the direction of Ronald Reagan invaded Grenada, an island off Venezuela with a population less than Kalamazoo’s. The invasion of ...

author of "The US Invasion of Grenada: Legacy of a Flawed Victory," wrote in a recent issue of the Air Commando Journal. Early on October 25, Rangers from the 1st and 2nd Ranger Battalions ...

When they received an incomprehensible cable from Grenada, they just ignored it. All of which explains why Margaret Thatcher was so surprised at the American invasion. She remarked at the time ...

Leading by two goals after 20 minutes, Rangers suffered a series of defensive errors and conceded three second-half goals to lose the second match of their Caribbean tour 3-2 to the Grenada men ...