@NTNLEESON It is an intellectual exercize to fabricate a falsehood. This video is the work of someone who lived the history and is simply telling the story. As much as Communists would like to re-write this history they can't. This time they didn't have the ability to murder everyone who knows the Truth when they had the opportunity to do so.
@MadBrad325AIR I don't get the 'laziness comment.' In the chaos of combat (especially an airborne insertion) we're luck to have any footage at all.
BTW Brad, re: my prior comment on 'combat videographers'..I didnt mean like it is now in the mideast with every other GI having a little camera, I meant actual official combat videographers, MOS and all...
@YORKCOPS Thank you for the support on the "Intellectual Laziness" remark. There are only little scraps of video strung together into 3 ten minute segments that are supposed to give the overall story. There is no way that I could cover every single event the the Grenadian National Nightmare or the Liberation therefrom with the resources I have in a total of 3 minutes of video. There isn't much to know beyond this was the same old story of how Communists behave wherever you find them.
@ewfoltz It's damn chilling to watch. A daylight jump into AA guns is about as bad as it can get. We were supposed to come in right behind you but everything went SNAFU. I was on Chalk 1 from the 82nd.
@MadBrad325AIR The rounds hitting the plane sounded like gravel on a tin roof. I couldn't get out of that plane fast enough. Landed right in the middle of the runway between the pond and the sea. Hit the ground with nothing but weapons and ammo. Everything else was left on the planes since we had derigged our rucks.
@ewfoltz We were supposed to land in Barbados to rig up and then jump in the early afternoon. About an hour into the ride down there we got the word on what was happening with you guys so we started in-flight rigging. Then just inside before we got the 10 minute warning we were told to de-rig. After we got that done we were told to dump everything but water and ammo and they passed out more ammo. When we landed I couldn't tell if it was bullets or gravel hitting the aircraft.
@MadBrad325AIR Needless to say, before we even gt there we all had the sense that nothing was going according to plan. Shortly after we got there it was apparent that everything was SNAFU.
VinSu, it is clear that the medical campus was in covert contact with their vice chancellor in the U.S. who was informing the State Department and the CIA. NONE of that intelligence made it into our Operations Order.
I lived at True Blue. The students who had "real" experience (e.g., nurses) helped with the wounded Americans in the library; those of us who had a little medical experience (e.g., lab techs, etc.) helped with the wounded Grenadians & Cubans in a little lecture hall. After we got home, I saw one of the Cubans who I had helped care for interviewed on TV. He said that we were horrible, wouldn't help them, etc. Rubbish! We, and the military, were exceptionally kind to them!
@TheGLBH My Company had the responsibility of securing the perimeter at the end of the runway where Dusty Highway began right there at the medical campus on up into the hills on the inland side of the runway. I remember watching you guys walk down Dusty Highway to the runway.
As for that Cuban, there was nothing else he would have been allowed to say.
Just to clarify the caption concerning the unknown state of the US students is utter rubbish. After Bishop's disposal Bernard Coard and the PRG informed the US government that the medical students at SGU were all safe and would not be harmed.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out had their objective been to kidnap or hold the students hostage they'd have moved them from the Grand Anse campus which is located right next to the airport!
@VinSuMusic: No doubt that the PRG informed the US that the students would be safe, but in fact, they would NOT guarantee to us (I was a student there) that we would not be harmed. We specifically asked them if we could be given safe passage to the other (small) airport OR to boats, and they said that we were free to go, but that the shoot-on-sight curfew would remain in effect. I really don't think Bernard Coard and his cronies were the most trustworthy of men, you know?
@TheGLBH Nor was there much order in the ranks of the PRA. Most of them felt caught in the middle and were afraid of what would happen to them if they failed to comply with whatever their commander ordered and to do so with great enthusiasm. Commanders of the various units in the street were not n regular contact with whoever was calling the shots in St. Georges. If Bishop could be executed, those PRA Soldiers knew their lives weren't worth much. Things were tense. Good move staying at True Blue
WOW Moreno, maybe you haven't heard about the Grenadian civilians who were tortured and murdered at the hands of their Communist masters. Maybe you should spend more time talking to people who lived it before you pontificate about things you really don't know about or understand. Go ahead and look at Part One again. The massacre on the Fort speaks for itself.
Barbados should have never been allowed to sogn the treaty or to participate. Barbados was NOT a part of the OECS.
I think that this is just another perfect example of the bullyiung nature of the US govt. They tortured Cuban engineers and other NON military personnel, for reasons I would never understand, and they even took pictures of it. WHat kind of person do you have to be to do that?
@Dogmeat1950 There should have been plenty of video of all of the Marine Corps landings, as they came ashore without opposition. Remember that the Press was banned. Had the press been there the video would exist. The reason why there is so much Army video is that typically only an American could afford a camcorder at the time and the Americans were near the medical campuses. More to follow...
@Dogmeat1950 Because the Navy SEALS failed in their two attempts to get into a hide position and set up a navigational beacon, the Air Force Reserve pilots who were flying in the lead elements from the Ranger Battalions got lost in a storm and didn't make it to the Drop Zone after Sunrise. The close proximity of the Point Salines Drop Zone, the True Blue Medical Campus and the Americans who could actually afford a camcorder are the reasons for the combat scenes with U.S. Army Units, less USMC.
@Dogmeat. There was actually daylight to shoot video in by the time Parachutes started popping. The Marines actually made it to Pearls before daybreak, as per the Operations Order. Even if there had been someone with a video camcorder among the civilians, it would have been too dark to shoot video as the heavy lift Chinooks dropped in the Marines.
We were FREEZING all night on the runway at Pope AFB, then found ourselves sweltering by the time we got there. They had us turn in our BDUs and issued us Vietnam-era jungle fatigues.
Excellent video series you put together! This is one of the reasons that I joined the U.S. Army ! To fight tyranny against ALL evil! My cousin was killed in Beirut in October 23rd 1983! !
@fuckyouobama1 I remember that morning quite well. I was visiting my Cousins down in Marion, SC that weekend, which was a big No-No. I was supposed to be closer to Ft. Bragg due to our alert status. When I saw the news that Sunday morning I didn't even hesitate to make a call. I jumped in my truck and started burning up the back roads. I made it back well before the first of three alerts came down between then and Monday morning. We all thought we were going to Beirut.
@sailorkostas Thank you My Brother. Yes, those videos are authentic. Not many people had camcorders back then as they were fairly expensive. A VHS video player/recorder cost $750.00 US back then. I can't imagine how much a camcorder would have cost. I am sure that there were only a few manufacturers even producing them at the time.
@MadBrad325AIR On this note, how did you manage to obtain such a massive amount of footage? Surely most of it was shot by US combat videographers? No security issue on the footage?
@YORKCOPS Back in 1983 a Camcorder was WELL beyond the price of anything a Private First Class in the Airborne Infantry could afford. The only people with camcorders shooting combat footage from these angles would have been from among the Americans near the True Blue Campus at Pt. Salines and perhaps the never confirmed, legendary British Intelligence Operatives who are rumored to have gone over from Barbados prior to the massacre. I first saw some of this video while on duty at Brigade HQ later
@YORKCOPS There was much more to that video than is seen here. I wish I had a copy of it but I'm kind of glad that I don't. There were some pretty sad scenes there. These are just bits and pieces I collected over the years, copies from what I saw many years later while pulling guard duty down at the Brigade Headquarters that night, a few months after the operation. I just assembled and edited those little scraps of history. It was the last hot battle of the Cold War.
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aznsbd 2 months ago
these are good videos but I don't like how the music kind of glamorizes combat parts.
rensy101 6 months ago 4
This video is guilty of the most extreme level of intellectual laziness, yikes.
NTNLEESON 7 months ago
@NTNLEESON It is an intellectual exercize to fabricate a falsehood. This video is the work of someone who lived the history and is simply telling the story. As much as Communists would like to re-write this history they can't. This time they didn't have the ability to murder everyone who knows the Truth when they had the opportunity to do so.
MadBrad325AIR 7 months ago
@MadBrad325AIR I don't get the 'laziness comment.' In the chaos of combat (especially an airborne insertion) we're luck to have any footage at all.
BTW Brad, re: my prior comment on 'combat videographers'..I didnt mean like it is now in the mideast with every other GI having a little camera, I meant actual official combat videographers, MOS and all...
YORKCOPS 7 months ago
@YORKCOPS Thank you for the support on the "Intellectual Laziness" remark. There are only little scraps of video strung together into 3 ten minute segments that are supposed to give the overall story. There is no way that I could cover every single event the the Grenadian National Nightmare or the Liberation therefrom with the resources I have in a total of 3 minutes of video. There isn't much to know beyond this was the same old story of how Communists behave wherever you find them.
MadBrad325AIR 7 months ago
yh kill dem grenadianss army moda fuckerss
marcus995100 11 months ago
Thanks for posting. I jumped in with B 1/75. Always gives me a chill watching the jump video.
ewfoltz 1 year ago
@ewfoltz It's damn chilling to watch. A daylight jump into AA guns is about as bad as it can get. We were supposed to come in right behind you but everything went SNAFU. I was on Chalk 1 from the 82nd.
MadBrad325AIR 11 months ago
@MadBrad325AIR The rounds hitting the plane sounded like gravel on a tin roof. I couldn't get out of that plane fast enough. Landed right in the middle of the runway between the pond and the sea. Hit the ground with nothing but weapons and ammo. Everything else was left on the planes since we had derigged our rucks.
ewfoltz 9 months ago
@ewfoltz We were supposed to land in Barbados to rig up and then jump in the early afternoon. About an hour into the ride down there we got the word on what was happening with you guys so we started in-flight rigging. Then just inside before we got the 10 minute warning we were told to de-rig. After we got that done we were told to dump everything but water and ammo and they passed out more ammo. When we landed I couldn't tell if it was bullets or gravel hitting the aircraft.
MadBrad325AIR 9 months ago
@MadBrad325AIR Needless to say, before we even gt there we all had the sense that nothing was going according to plan. Shortly after we got there it was apparent that everything was SNAFU.
MadBrad325AIR 9 months ago
america! fuck yeh! kill the, commie bastards!
mikefan09 1 year ago
VinSu, it is clear that the medical campus was in covert contact with their vice chancellor in the U.S. who was informing the State Department and the CIA. NONE of that intelligence made it into our Operations Order.
MadBrad325AIR 1 year ago
@MadBrad325AIR did you guys use ALICE gear when you were there
TheWarhead3 1 year ago
@TheWarhead3 Oh yeah. That was the gear of the day.
MadBrad325AIR 11 months ago
Thanks for posting this, MadBrad. I think of you all, especially those who lost their lives every year on 10-25. God bless you guys!
TheGLBH 1 year ago
@TheGLBH Which campus were you at?
MadBrad325AIR 1 year ago
@MadBrad325AIR:
I lived at True Blue. The students who had "real" experience (e.g., nurses) helped with the wounded Americans in the library; those of us who had a little medical experience (e.g., lab techs, etc.) helped with the wounded Grenadians & Cubans in a little lecture hall. After we got home, I saw one of the Cubans who I had helped care for interviewed on TV. He said that we were horrible, wouldn't help them, etc. Rubbish! We, and the military, were exceptionally kind to them!
TheGLBH 1 year ago
@TheGLBH My Company had the responsibility of securing the perimeter at the end of the runway where Dusty Highway began right there at the medical campus on up into the hills on the inland side of the runway. I remember watching you guys walk down Dusty Highway to the runway.
As for that Cuban, there was nothing else he would have been allowed to say.
MadBrad325AIR 1 year ago
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TheGLBH 1 year ago
Great video btw...
Just to clarify the caption concerning the unknown state of the US students is utter rubbish. After Bishop's disposal Bernard Coard and the PRG informed the US government that the medical students at SGU were all safe and would not be harmed.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out had their objective been to kidnap or hold the students hostage they'd have moved them from the Grand Anse campus which is located right next to the airport!
VinSuMusic 1 year ago
@VinSuMusic: No doubt that the PRG informed the US that the students would be safe, but in fact, they would NOT guarantee to us (I was a student there) that we would not be harmed. We specifically asked them if we could be given safe passage to the other (small) airport OR to boats, and they said that we were free to go, but that the shoot-on-sight curfew would remain in effect. I really don't think Bernard Coard and his cronies were the most trustworthy of men, you know?
TheGLBH 1 year ago
@TheGLBH Nor was there much order in the ranks of the PRA. Most of them felt caught in the middle and were afraid of what would happen to them if they failed to comply with whatever their commander ordered and to do so with great enthusiasm. Commanders of the various units in the street were not n regular contact with whoever was calling the shots in St. Georges. If Bishop could be executed, those PRA Soldiers knew their lives weren't worth much. Things were tense. Good move staying at True Blue
MadBrad325AIR 7 months ago
WOW Moreno, maybe you haven't heard about the Grenadian civilians who were tortured and murdered at the hands of their Communist masters. Maybe you should spend more time talking to people who lived it before you pontificate about things you really don't know about or understand. Go ahead and look at Part One again. The massacre on the Fort speaks for itself.
MadBrad325AIR 1 year ago 2
Barbados should have never been allowed to sogn the treaty or to participate. Barbados was NOT a part of the OECS.
I think that this is just another perfect example of the bullyiung nature of the US govt. They tortured Cuban engineers and other NON military personnel, for reasons I would never understand, and they even took pictures of it. WHat kind of person do you have to be to do that?
morenahotsteppa 1 year ago
my uncle james was there anyone here know him?? James Callahan 1st rangers
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Oh jesus America has no idea what freedom is.
NewEnglishRevolution 1 year ago
"We have two Marine Divisions running all up and down the Island what the hell is the Army doing!?" Joint Chief of Staff
Dogmeat1950 1 year ago
wait a min what about the U.S Marines? was a big Naval assault to for the Island.
Dogmeat1950 1 year ago
@Dogmeat1950 There should have been plenty of video of all of the Marine Corps landings, as they came ashore without opposition. Remember that the Press was banned. Had the press been there the video would exist. The reason why there is so much Army video is that typically only an American could afford a camcorder at the time and the Americans were near the medical campuses. More to follow...
MadBrad325AIR 11 months ago
@Dogmeat1950 Because the Navy SEALS failed in their two attempts to get into a hide position and set up a navigational beacon, the Air Force Reserve pilots who were flying in the lead elements from the Ranger Battalions got lost in a storm and didn't make it to the Drop Zone after Sunrise. The close proximity of the Point Salines Drop Zone, the True Blue Medical Campus and the Americans who could actually afford a camcorder are the reasons for the combat scenes with U.S. Army Units, less USMC.
MadBrad325AIR 11 months ago
@Dogmeat. There was actually daylight to shoot video in by the time Parachutes started popping. The Marines actually made it to Pearls before daybreak, as per the Operations Order. Even if there had been someone with a video camcorder among the civilians, it would have been too dark to shoot video as the heavy lift Chinooks dropped in the Marines.
MadBrad325AIR 11 months ago
We were FREEZING all night on the runway at Pope AFB, then found ourselves sweltering by the time we got there. They had us turn in our BDUs and issued us Vietnam-era jungle fatigues.
LordSnow69 1 year ago
Excellent video series you put together! This is one of the reasons that I joined the U.S. Army ! To fight tyranny against ALL evil! My cousin was killed in Beirut in October 23rd 1983! !
fuckyouobama1 1 year ago
@fuckyouobama1 I remember that morning quite well. I was visiting my Cousins down in Marion, SC that weekend, which was a big No-No. I was supposed to be closer to Ft. Bragg due to our alert status. When I saw the news that Sunday morning I didn't even hesitate to make a call. I jumped in my truck and started burning up the back roads. I made it back well before the first of three alerts came down between then and Monday morning. We all thought we were going to Beirut.
MadBrad325AIR 10 months ago
very interesting people forget about this small war and has been forgotten stumbled upon this video while researching the cold war great vid!
sampnolan 1 year ago
@sampnolan The anniversary of Operation Urgent Fury is coming up, let us remember. I was there as an SP in the USAF, something I won't forget....
triuman 1 year ago
SailorKostas, yes, this is authentic video. I was there when most of it was happening.
MadBrad325AIR 1 year ago
great stuff my friend! this videos is realy from 1983 octomber? very cool. i'am in the greek navy you know and i like military history.
sailorkostas 2 years ago
@sailorkostas Thank you My Brother. Yes, those videos are authentic. Not many people had camcorders back then as they were fairly expensive. A VHS video player/recorder cost $750.00 US back then. I can't imagine how much a camcorder would have cost. I am sure that there were only a few manufacturers even producing them at the time.
MadBrad325AIR 10 months ago
@MadBrad325AIR On this note, how did you manage to obtain such a massive amount of footage? Surely most of it was shot by US combat videographers? No security issue on the footage?
YORKCOPS 7 months ago
@YORKCOPS Back in 1983 a Camcorder was WELL beyond the price of anything a Private First Class in the Airborne Infantry could afford. The only people with camcorders shooting combat footage from these angles would have been from among the Americans near the True Blue Campus at Pt. Salines and perhaps the never confirmed, legendary British Intelligence Operatives who are rumored to have gone over from Barbados prior to the massacre. I first saw some of this video while on duty at Brigade HQ later
MadBrad325AIR 7 months ago
@YORKCOPS There was much more to that video than is seen here. I wish I had a copy of it but I'm kind of glad that I don't. There were some pretty sad scenes there. These are just bits and pieces I collected over the years, copies from what I saw many years later while pulling guard duty down at the Brigade Headquarters that night, a few months after the operation. I just assembled and edited those little scraps of history. It was the last hot battle of the Cold War.
MadBrad325AIR 7 months ago