Question

[Kingpin]

Found those photos:

http://home.earthlink.net/~jenkinscomputerserv/images/btr9.jpg

http://home.earthlink.net/~jenkinscomputerserv/images/BTR8.jpg

http://home.earthlink.net/~jenkinscomputerserv/images/rangerbtr.jpg

Does anyone can tell me what all this about?

[Yard Ape]

Grenada 1983

PRA = People's Revolutionary Army

[Kingpin]

Why USA invaded to Grenada?

(Both officialy and unofficialy)

[Marmot1]

Why USA invaded to Grenada?

(Both officialy and unofficialy)
Good question??? do they have oil? :lol:

[Ian H]

No. There is a lot of controversy over why the US invaded. They say the governor-general had been imprisoned by the Marxist regime on the island, and so invaded to protect him and remove the regime. There are also ideas that the airfield being built was big enough for Soviet aircraft and this posed a threat to US security, and also that the US military simply needed a victory (Vietnam was still a painful memory, and Reagan wanted to make the US feel proud of its military again.)

There's all sorts of stuff on this operation. It was Operation Urgent Fury, in 1983.

[Groove]

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/docs/urgfury.pdf

Save As and read it :) Its about Urgent Fury

Groove

[hank]

Don't you guys watch movies? We HAD to get those medical students.

hank

[Uncle Sam]

http://www.historyguy.com/Grenada.html


At dawn, on October 25, 1983, US Marines,
Army Rangers, Navy SEAL commandos and
elements of the 82nd Airborne Division invaded
Grenada, a member of the British Commonwealth.

The announced mission of the American suprise attack,
in which troops from a number of Caribbean
nations took part, was to ensure the safety of some
1,000 Americans, whose presence on Grenada
(most were medical students)was considered
endangered by the new marxist military government
that had seized power from and murdered Prime
Minister Maurice Bishop (1944-83) six days earlier.

The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States
and Grenada's Governor-General Sir Paul Scoon
(1935-) had requested US help to combat the growing
influence of Cuba and other communist countries on the
island.

The small Grenadian army, assisted by Cuban
soldiers and workers who were constructing a large
airport at Point Salines, put up fierce resistance for
several days, but were eventually overwhelmed by
the invasion force, which had grown from about
1,200 to over 7,000.

Numerous rebles fled to the interior jungles and
kept fighting; within a month the leaders of the
military government were arrested, and Cubans,
Russians, North Koreans, Libyans, East Germans,
Bulgarians and suspected Grenadian communists
had been rounded up and put in a detention camp.

By mid-December 1983, all US combat forces had
left Grenada, and Scoon had appointed a nine-member
advisory council to govern until elections could be held.




The invasion of Grenada in late 1983 can be
seen as a small part of the rivalry between the U.S.
and Cuba during the Reagan years. A bloody coup in
Grenada, along with a perceived threat to American
students on the island provided the U.S. with an
excellent excuse to eliminate a Marxist regime allied
to Fidel Castro's Cuba.


UNIQUE FACTS OR TRENDS: This section is
formed from the opinion of the History Guy regarding
this conflict.

1. This was the first "war" between the U.S. and Cuba.
Though some would say that the Bay of Pigs Invasion
of 1961 could fall into that category, I do not count it in
the category of an "official" shooting war or conflict.

2. Grenada was America's first military victory since well
before the Vietnam War.

3. This was the first time since before World War 2 that
an avowed Communist/Marxist government had been
replaced with a pro-Western one. It should be noted
though, that some governments which the United States
and her allies claimed were communist (like the Arbenz
government of Guatemala and the Mossadegh regime in Iran)
did fall due to covert American (CIA) action. Again,
I do not count them since they did not officially proclaim
allegiance to the communist ideology or become overt
allies of other communist nations.