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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The invasion of Grenada had just begun, and the U.S. assault troops were in trouble. American transport aircraft dropped a company of U.S. 75th Rangers onto the runway at Port Salines Airport ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...