A Quick Reminder . . .
On 25 October 1983, beginning at 0500
Combat had effectively ended by 27 October 1983; the end of the combat phase was declared on 2 November 1983. The operation’s formal end was 15 December 1983.
Overall, Operation Urgent Fury was successful. However, many substantial problems with communications and interservice coordination were discovered during the operation. Thankfully we discovered these issues in Grenada vice against more serious opposition.
The operation was not zero cost. US fatalities, Operation Urgent Fury, were as follows:
- Marlin R. Maynard / Private First Class / 1st Bn 75th Rangers / Ranger Rifleman / US Army
- Russell L. Robinson / Private First Class / 1st Bn.75th Rangers / Ranger Rifleman / US Army
- Mark O. Yamane / Specialist Four / 1st Bn 75th Rangers / Ranger Rifleman / US Army
- Mark A. Rademacher / Sergeant / 1st Bn 75th Rangers / Ranger Team Leader / US Army
- Randy E. Cline / Sergeant / 1st Bn 75th Rangers / Ranger Team Leader / US Army
- Philip S. Grenier / Specialist Four / 2nd Bn 75th Rangers / Ranger Mortarman / US Army
- Kevin J. Lannon / Sergeant / 2nd Bn 75th Rangers / Ranger Medic / US Army
- Stephen E. Slater / Sergeant / 2nd Bn 75th Rangers / Ranger Team Leader / US Army
- Sean P. Luketina / Sergeant / 82d Airborne Division / Communications Sergeant / US Army
- Gary Epps / Staff Sergeant / 82d Airborne Division / Squad Leader / US Army
- Michael F. Ritz / Captain / 82d Airborne Division / Company Commander / US Army
- Keith Lucas / Captain / 160th SOAR / UH-60 Pilot / US Army
- Kenneth Butcher / Petty Officer 1st Class / SEAL Team 6 / Navy SEAL / USN
- Kevin Lundberg / Petty Officer 1st Class / SEAL Team 6 / Navy SEAL / USN
- Stephen Morris / Petty Officer 1st Class / SEAL Team 6 / Navy SEAL / USN
- Robert Schamberger / Senior Chief / SEAL Team 6 / Navy SEAL / USN
- Jeffery Scharver / First Lieutenant / United States Marine Corps / AH-1 Pilot / USMC
- Jeb Seagle / Captain / United States Marine Corps (Reserve) / AH-1 Pilot / USMC
- Pat Giguere / Captain / United States Marine Corps / AH-1 Pilot / USMC
One additional US soldier was killed in a post-hostilities non-battle incident:
- Dinesh Rajbhandary / Private First Class / duty assignment and unit not available / US Army
An additional 116 US personnel were WIA.
Rest in peace, men. Rest in peace.
Category: Historical
Semper Fi….Ooooh Rah
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Yes… Semper Fi.
Col Tim Howard, USMC (ret), was the CO of Weapons Bn while I was stationed at MCRD Parris Island as a company grade officer. He was the Cobra pilot shot down with Capt Jeb Seagle on Grenada. Col Howard lost his arm, had a leg severely wounded (and permanently disfigured) during the crash, and was pulled from the burning wreckage by Capt Seagle. Capt Seagle gave his life distracting and holding off the enemy in order to give the rescue helo time to get Col Howard and was awarded the Navy Cross, posthumously, for his actions. I was fortunate enough to hear Col Howard give a PME class to a group of us wherein he described his experiences. As I’m sure you all can imagine, it was an amazing class and Col Howard still got extremely emotional two decades later.
what a cluster. I remember reading about SF/Seals going in with photocopies of tourist maps, and didn’t someone in the 82nd have to make a phone call all the way back to Bragg to get arty/air support? now we take it for granted that that manpack ASIP/SINGARS radio can talk to everything from an Apache to a Air Force zoomy.
Andy: yeah, the international phone call incident actually happened. And it gets even better.
A few years later, I served with a guy who’d been on the Grenada operation – and who was a COMSEC custodian at the time. For a couple of days, apparently the only secure ship-to-shore FM voice comm between the Navy and Army units ashore was a PRC-77 w/secure device (for which the guy was custodian) that had been flown out to one of the ships with an operator/maintainer and plenty of batteries. (Can’t remember if he told me whether they took an OE-254 also or not.)
I don’t think the guy was BSing me. COMSEC custodians keep REAL good track of their stuff or they don’t tend to last too long. (smile)
For the military comm world, Grenada was an eye-opener. Lots of changes resulted.
gEEZ, I remember humping a PRC-77, LOL. A whole wopping 2-3 watts of power, man-o-man how times have changed.
She(BONZO) stoops to conquer! Is this the war ted nuggent fought in!
Jesus, VWP–you need to stop confusing the bong with that running car’s tailpipe.
Then again, end result is the same–fucktardery on a scale previously unknown on this site or any other.
Stick a grenade in your mouth, pull the pin and let us know how it goes when you get to the count of ten.
What? Is that worm back in the fray?
vnwp, if you don’t have anything useful to say, then STFU. Now. And go find some hippy chick to hit on for dope to smoke. No one except police dogs will notice you.
vietnam war protester: G-F-Y. (Link NSFW.) Preferably while standing in the fast lane on either I-495 (DC) or I-5 (LA) at rush hour.
@7 You have to be the most idiotic troll I have ever seen. You’re a poster child for the adverse affects of long term marijuana use.
Ode to grenada: “well he’s got him a medal that he won in a war weighs 500 pounds and it sleeps by the door!”
Oh, I see now.
You wait until you think eveyrone has gone traipsing off to their trundle beds and then you get to come waltzing back with more of your idiotic drivel.
Well, no. It doesn’t work that way. There is always someone guarding the bastions of decency.
But that’s something you don’t understand, do you now, vwp?
You are such a waste of your mother’s nine months of her life.
You know, Hunter S. Thompson had a great line about you, VWP:
“…the demonstrators… were a useless mob of ignorant, chicken-shit egojunkies whose only accomplishment was to embarass the whole tradition of public protest.”
I have heard the rumor that vwp has just made bail after being arrested for trying to blow up a bus!! The Police found him in no time after his attempt, they ID’ed him via the burns on his lips from the tailpipe!!
….There was also an incident I’ve read several accounts of where a damaged Army UH-60 – then a fairly new bird – was initially refused permission to emergency land on USS Guam because it hadn’t yet been approved for shipboard landings. The pilot made it clear he was coming in anyways, and did so.
Mike
Hunter was wrong we ended the vietnam war and just stoped a war with syria. When ann the man coulter saw amerikkka attack the tiny little country of grenada she said thats when she decided to have her balls cut off!
vietnam war protester: are you naturally a complete idiot, or do you just enjoy acting like one in public?
According to Eric Haney’s “Inside Delta Force”, a UH60 carrying a Delta Force element was seriously damaged by 23mm AAA fire and landed on the USS Moosebrugger (a Spruance class DDG)
Um, do you even know who Hunter S. Thompson was?
(another sign VWP is a freaking hippie poser)
@20 – Mr. Blue, he doesn’t even know who Ted NUGENT was. Can’t spell his name correctly.
And FWIW, VWP, **YOU** had fuck-all to do with not going into Syria. Matter of fact, the usual players (Code Pink, VFP, et al.,) were nowhere to be found.
And all the anti-war movement really accomplished by killing the American will to win in Vietnam (and Iraq, and now Afghanistan) is genocide of those folks who were left behind when the various administrations cut and ran.
Care to debate that one, dipshit?
john mccain said if we had your will to win he would still be a pow! And also win what? I know a lot of you smoked dope in vietnam that is why they called it dope! former defense secratary Macnamara was on former vietnam vet gil grosse’s radio talk show some years ago and said he didn’t beleive in the war! Gil said you sent me over there and you didn’t beleive in it! Gil got really mad and may have kicked him off of the show I tuned in later,anyway gil said to his audiance “you vietnam protesters were right I was wrong! All these year I didn’t know! Nuff said. Glad to debate you 22
@23 It’s called dope because people like you give it a bad name, dope.
vwp, is it really necessary for you to let everyone in the universe know that you are both functionally illiterate and ignorant of history?
Have you EVER heard of punctuation and spelling? Your scribbling can’t even be labeled psychobabble, because that would insult the Valley Girls who invented it.
“former vietnam vet gil grosse”. How does one become a “former Vietnam vet”? Did he go back in time and unenlist, or get undrafted?
You’re a moron, please, do your self a favor, GDIAF.
Little vwp, you need to quit guzzling two-week-old bong water and GET A LIFE!! Quit sniffing glue while you’re at it, and you might be able to get a job and make yourself useful!!