{"id":75552,"date":"2017-10-25T08:17:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T12:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75552"},"modified":"2017-10-25T08:17:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T12:17:41","slug":"34th-anniversary-of-urgent-fury-the-liberation-of-grenada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75552","title":{"rendered":"34th Anniversary of Urgent Fury &#8211; the liberation of Grenada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=68572\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68572\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/UH-60As_over_Port_Salines_airport_Grenada_1983-500x329.jpeg\" alt=\"URGENT FURY\" width=\"500\" height=\"329\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-68572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/UH-60As_over_Port_Salines_airport_Grenada_1983-500x329.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/UH-60As_over_Port_Salines_airport_Grenada_1983-300x198.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/UH-60As_over_Port_Salines_airport_Grenada_1983-768x506.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today marks the 34th anniversary of Operation Urgent fury in which elements of the 82d Airborne Division, US Marines, 1st and 2d Ranger Battalions, Navy SEALs and others liberated the island of Grenada from Communist control. <\/p>\n<p>About 7600 US troops pried loose the relatively light Cuban and Soviet presence on the island. The Grenadan Army was about 1200 souls, they were reinforced with a rogue&#8217;s gallery of Cold War-era badies;<\/p>\n<p>Cuba: 780<br \/>\nSoviet Union: 49<br \/>\nNorth Korea: 24<br \/>\nEast Germany: 16<br \/>\nBulgaria: 14<br \/>\nLibya: 3 or 4<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the UK and Canada complained that invasion was a flagrant violation of international law, despite the pleas to the US from Organization of American States for intervention when the prime minister of Grenada was murdered in a power struggle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Invasion_of_Grenada_%281983%29\">Wiki says<\/a> about the casualties;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nearly eight thousand soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines had participated in Operation Urgent Fury along with 353 Caribbean allies of the Caribbean Peace Forces (CPF). U.S. Forces sustained 19 killed and 116 wounded; Cuban forces sustained 25 killed, 59 wounded and 638 combatants captured. Grenadian forces casualties were 45 killed and 358 wounded; at least 24 civilians were killed, several of whom were killed in the accidental bombing of a Grenadian mental hospital.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In Grenada, today is known as Thanksgiving Day and it&#8217;s a national holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 34th anniversary of Operation Urgent fury in which elements of the 82d Airborne &hellip; <a title=\"34th Anniversary of Urgent Fury &#8211; the liberation of Grenada\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75552\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">34th Anniversary of Urgent Fury &#8211; the liberation of Grenada<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}