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To: Reaganite Republican

Operation Urgent Fury, the Invasion of Grenada was October 1983, not 1982. I was serving at MCAS Cherry Point, NC at the time. Specifically, it was October 25 - 15 December 1983. Easy to remember because we lost our 241 Servicemen in Beirut on the 23rd of October. If memory serves, we lost 237 US Marines, 4 US Sailors and 2 US Soldiers. I’ll have to check those figures.


17 posted on 06/26/2014 10:41:40 AM PDT by Joe Marine 76 ("Honor is the gift a man gives to himself." ~ Rob Roy MacGregor)
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To: Joe Marine 76

The correct numbers lost: 220 Marines, 18 Sailors, 3 Soldiers.


19 posted on 06/26/2014 10:47:13 AM PDT by Joe Marine 76 ("Honor is the gift a man gives to himself." ~ Rob Roy MacGregor)
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