POINT SALINES, Grenada — U.S. Army Rangers returned to Grenada this week, four decades after they liberated the island from the grips of Cuban and Soviet influence during Operation Urgent Fury ...

Just before the sun peaked over the horizon, Army Ranger veterans of Operation Urgent Fury unloaded from vehicles along the perimeter fence of the Maurice Bishop International Airport on Oct. 25.

That evening President Ronald Reagan gave his final approval for Operation Urgent Fury— the American invasion not of Lebanon but of Grenada. Two battalions of elite U.S. Army Rangers had ...

Operation Urgent Fury was pretty much like pitting the Harlem ... Other issues included Navy SEALs getting lost at sea, Army Rangers being left behind and a general lack of coordination between ...

(July 23, 2014) -- Ten Rangers were inducted into the Ranger ... on the combat jump into Grenada as a part of Operation Urgent Fury. Later Bachmann served as the pathfinder on Point Salinas ...

Army Ranger History U.S. Army Ranger history predates ... In October 1983, 1st and 2nd Ranger Battalions spearheaded Operation Urgent Fury by conducting a daring low-level parachute assault ...

As the 700 Rangers ... Urgent Fury describes the efforts made to secure the stockpiles: “Local citizens immediately began to point out members of the militia and the People's Revolutionary Army ...

(Army News Service ... while engraved on the sides are the names of Rangers who died during training, in operations Urgent Fury in Grenada and Just Cause in Panama, and in the global war on ...

Editor’s Note: This article was published as part of a content-sharing agreement between Army Times and The Fayetteville ... event of Operation Urgent Fury held in Fayetteville last week.

For Operation Urgent Fury, he was attached to the 2 nd Battalion ... the chairman of the People's Revolutionary army and leader of the coup, Nightingale said. “From then on the war was ...