Operation Just Cause 25th Anniversary
Yup, it’s been a quarter century since we removed Manuel Noriega from Panama so he can sue Activision video game makers for using him in their graphics for the latest Call of Duty game.
But there was a cost;
ARMY
Staff Sgt. Larry Barnard 3/75th Rangers Hallstead, Pa.
Pfc. Roy D. Brown Jr. 3/75th Rangers Buena Park, Calif.
Pvt. Vance T. Coats 82nd Airborne Division Great Falls, Mont.
Spec. Jerry S. Daves 82nd Airborne. Division Hope Mills,N.C.
Sgt. Michael A. Deblois 82nd Airborne Division Dubach, La.
Pfc. Martin D. Denson 82nd Airborne Division Abilene,Texas
Pfc. William D. Gibbs 7th Infantry Division. Marina, Calif.
Spec. Phillip S. Lear 2/75th Rangers Westminster, S.C.
Spec. Alejandro Manriquelozano* 82nd Airborne Division Lauderhill, Fla.
Pfc. James W. Markwell 1/75th Rangers Cincinnati, Ohio
Cpl. Ivan M. Perez 5th Infantry Division Pawtucket, R.I.
Pfc. John M. Price 2/75th Rangers Conover, Wis.
Pfc. Scott L. Roth 89th Military Police Brigade Killeen, Texas
Pvt. Kenneth D. Scott 5th Infantry Division Princeton, W.Va.
1st Lt. John R. Hunter 160th Aviation Victor, Montana
CWO2 Wilson B. Owens 160th Aviation Myrtle Beach,S.C.
CWO2 Andrew P. Porter 7th Infantry Division Saint Clair, Mich.
Pvt. James A. Taber Jr. 82nd Airborne Division Montrose, Colo.
NAVY
Lt. jg John Connors Special Warfare Group Arlington, Maine
BM1 Chris Tilghman Special Warfare Group Kailua, Hawaii ENC
Donald McFaul Special Warfare Group Deschutes,Ore.
TM2 Issac G. Rodriguez III Special Warfare Group Missouri City,Texas
MARINE CORPS
Cpl. Garreth C. Isaak 2nd Marine Division home town unknown.
Another of our “wars of imperialism” in which we didn’t occupy or annex the country. When will we learn to get it right?
Category: Historical
Obama apology due any time.
I lol’d
Because it’s true.
Along with a few dump trucks of Foreign Aid money for Panama, B. Hussein 0bama would pardon Noriega if he was still alive!
Noriega is alive and currently calling Renacer Prison home. My platoon air assaulted into Renacer 25 years ago today.
My mistake, I thought he had passed away, I stand corrected!
He’s not out of office yet. No doubt he’s going to do some absurd pardons as a last fu gesture to the country he hates but has given him everything because of his skin color.
Yep. Remember it well. Had friends there and unit aircraft involved.
Why, in my head, does it seem like it was yesterday instead of twenty-five years ago?
The faces of free Panamanians and their look of relief from a dictatorship is what I’ll always remember.
That and flying into and out of Colombian airspace. LOL
Charlie Rock, 3/27 IN, 2nd BDE, 7th ID(LT)
Wolfhounds!
No Fear on earth! Back at you, Wolfhound!
Parachuted into Tocumen to take down the airport, then flew onto Tinajitas. Lost a couple good guys that day in ’89. I’ll never forget them. The media never got it right.
Since when have today’s liberal media personnel ever been concerned about telling the story without biasing and editorializing it?
God bless all those who served. God rest all those we lost.
The Electric Pussies of the 50th Signal BN were there! Airborne