Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard, with the help of the military, overthrew and killed Prime Minister Bishop
The United States was worried because the unrest trapped 800 american medical students and the construction of a airstrip was thought to be used for supplying arms to Central American communist insurgents.
1st Day
The 75th Rangers capture Point Salines International Airport IOT allow the 82nd to reinforce
8th Marine Regiment takes Pearls Airport
Delta Force and Rangers Capture Fort Rupert
SEAL's rescue Governor General Paul Scoon and capture Radio Free Grenada to conduct PSYOP's
2nd day
325IN Regiment attacks a Cuban compound
Rangers and Marines rescue more students from a different campus
3rd Day
Marines and Army soldiers move along the coast capturing towns
Rangers assault a Grenada barracks site
4+ days
22nd Marine Amphibious Unit captures the island of Carriacou
U.S. military forces spread throughout the island arresting officials, seizing weapon cache sites, and returning Cuban nationals
Outcome
Casualties US-19, Grenada- 49 dead several hundred wounded, Cuban- 29 dead over 100 wounded
Goldwater-Nichols act- Increased power of the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff. Eventually led to the formation of the US Special Forces Operations Command.
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