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 ...

POINT SALINES, Grenada — At 5:36 a.m., hundreds of Army Rangers, loaded down with combat equipment, dropped onto the partially finished airport in Grenada. The island is 12 miles wide and 21 ...

Grenada had secured independence from the ... Other issues included Navy SEALs getting lost at sea, Army Rangers being left behind and a general lack of coordination between forces.

The invasion served as proof of concept that Reagan was a tough anti-Communist with the foreign policy chops to guide the US back into a global leadership position.

(Army) Retired Col. Mark Rocke was also attached to the battalion’s Charlie Company and remembers landing on the island between 1 and 2 p.m. after a counterattack led by the 75th Ranger Regiment.

BBC Archive: United States marines and army rangers invaded the Caribbean island of Grenada, seized the country's two airports and taken Cuban and Soviet prisoners. Backed by helicopter gunships ...

Moores enlisted in the Army at age 18 and was initially assigned to the 1st Ranger Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment. “I was in the first class after the invasion of Grenada, so I was a young ...