Grenada Remembered: A Perspective: A Narrative Essay on Operation Urgent Fury

Abstract

This work narrates the personal experiences of an Infantry battalion commander on Operation Urgent Fury, the 1983 student rescue mission to Grenada, West Indies. The essay describes the events immediately before deployment, the planning, preparation and deployment itself, as well as highlights from the twenty-eight day stay on the Island for the 1st Battalion 505th Airborne Infantry, 82d Airborne Division. The unit was the third 82d Airborne Battalion deployed, arriving on D+1 and remaining through D+29. Highlighted is the mission to locate, secure and evacuate 183 medical students, as well as the transition from combat to peacekeeping and stability operations. The star of the show is the individual U.S. Paratrooper.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 21, 1987
Accession Number
ADA182857

Entities

People

  • George A. Crocker

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Ammunition
  • Armored Vehicles
  • Army
  • Combat Support
  • Deployment
  • Islands
  • Military Science
  • Numbers
  • Small Arms
  • Students
  • Surface Transportation
  • Training
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Military Science