The Invasion of Grenada as seen in "Heartbreak Ridge"

The Invasion of Grenada, codenamed Operation Urgent Fury, was a 1983 U.S.-led invasion of Grenada, a Caribbean island nation with a population of just over 100,000 located 100 miles (160 km) north of Venezuela. It was triggered by a military coup which ousted a brief revolutionary government. The successful invasion led to a change of government.

The invasion, which commenced at 5am on October 25, 1983, was the first major operation conducted by the U.S. military since the Vietnam War.

This is a clip from 1986's "Heartbreak Ridge", starring and directed by Clint Eastwood.

Plot: A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.

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[Mardasee]

@leiefilm I was referring about the clint eastwood movie which is 98% inaccurate.

[leiefilm]

@Mardasee The battle of Heartbreak Ridge was actually fought mostly by the U.S. Army's 2nd Infantry Division. The battle became infamous, after the Division Commander ordered the 23rd Infantry Regiment and an attached French infantry battalion, to stage a disastrous frontal assault straight up Heartbreak Ridge. Sergeant Major Choozoo mentions that he and Gunny Highway later joined the Marines after leaving the Army's 23rd Infantry Regiment.

[leiefilm]

@Mardasee pal,but clint eastwood him self said in an interwiev that they started the script as a army plot,but they refused after reading it and kicked the ball over to the marines.

The sequence involving the bulldozer is based on a real event. The officer who actually did what Eastwood portrays was John Abizaid, at the time a Captain and a Ranger Company

[Mardasee]

@leiefilm At a 2001 reunion I was even told that the movie was based on my unit. In fact the movie is very simular to what my unit was like. In the beginning they probably did use the army to base the movie on since even to this day much of the operations that occurred in grenada are still classified.

[leiefilm]

@Mardasee Nope it was based on the army,clint was suppose to be in the army.But the army kicked the ball over to the marines after som diasgreeing half way

[schizoidboy]

@donson5 You are welcome to your opinion althought Maurice Bishop was killed by his own people and not the United States, and those who killed him were from his own army. The country was made unstable by those who turned on Bishop and they were supported by the Communist nations.

[donson5]

@schizoidboy The invasion happened in part of the US interest. It had nothing to do with the Caribbean nations. The Building of the National Airport was the US primary Concern, because of Cuba's Involvment. Cuba+Soviet Union= Enemy of the States. The US brainwashed our neighbours(English speling) into believing there was an imminent and immediate threat of grenada becoming communist, Using the american's At S.G.U as final justification.(Urgent Fury)

[Mardasee]

@evilnaruto8 That's not correct. The movie was based on a marine unit. In real life Clint was a colonel. Ring was a master sergeant. Stitch was a hispanic who at times had ants in his pants and was nasty. This marine unit was an experiment made up of marines from a disciplinary unit "aka bottom of the barrel". They were hotheads, sociopaths and dissociates. Operation urgent fury is still classified "for some weird reason" and so many operations were never fully disclosed to the public yet.

[MrNathaniel123ify]

@schizoidboy but the US helped the most i know am from Carriacou an island close to Grenada

[evilnaruto8]

It was Army rangers that did this operation that the movie is based on not marines