Invasion of Grenada Thread

Not a vet, but I was in grade school when it happened. Ask me anything.

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>>1878098

How big of a deal was it? Was it dominating the news or did the bombing Lebanon overshadow it/

I can imagine a lot of people were scared that it was going to turn into another prolonged conflict, it was a mere eight years after Vietnam and the devastating emotional impact of that war was still deeply entrenched in the American psyche.

>>1878091
My dad went into Grenada with the Marines, he doesn't talk about it but I'm sure it's just because he didn't really do anything in the first place.

>>1878110
Nah. It was a quickie. Uncle Ronnie came on TV and told us 'we got there just in time,' and it was safely over, mostly. And that was that. It didn;t even get two months in a row of new magazine covers. The Falklands War got more coverage, and we weren't even in it.

I was surprised later to find that the Grenadans were enthused about what they called the 'liberation.' After all, a couple hundred demonstrators had been machine gunned by their Cuban backed ruler... and the Grenadans were and are mostly black, and the Cubans treated them like shit. I recall that as well.

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>>1878144
>Grenadans were enthused about what they called the 'liberation.'

Yeah, Grenada's probably the only conflict the US fought since WW2 you could definitely say was fought for freedom. Since the Communist Party had usurped power and executed the previous Prime Minister.

It's an interesting microcosm of the Cold War. Although frankly, I think those troops should've gone to Lebanon instead.

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>>1878091
Communists out.