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Grenada & Beirut
By Lt Col P
(Pardon me for filing this a day late, I've been busy securing gainful civilian employment.)
23 October 1983: a date with dual signifcance.
The Beirut barracks bombing took the lives of 241 Americans. (Another blast on the same day killed almost 60 French paratroopers.) Informed opinion then and now pointed to Hezbollah, Syria and Iran as the culprits and instigators. The act remains unavenged. Visit the memorial site here.
US forces invaded and seized Grenada to prevent it from becoming the third point in a Soviet-Cuban triangle in the Caribbean. Looking at Cuba today, we forget what an activist menace it was in the 80s. Thousands of Cuban soldiers were exporting their revolution in Angola; Cuban influence was heavy in Nicaragua, and stoking the insurgency in El Salvador. Operation Urgent Fury gave Castro a good solid check.
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that's one for the archives Joel, but I seem to remember hearing about a lost alumnus in Beruit as well.
Class of 78?? Shot in the dark...
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If I'm not mistaken, didn't we (VMI) lose a man that day in Beirut?