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President Reagan meeting with Congress on the invasion of Grenada in the Cabinet Room, 25 October 1983. H-hour for the invasion was set for 05:00 on 25 October 1983. U.S. troops deployed for Grenada by helicopter from Grantley Adams International Airport on Barbados before daybreak.
Reagan discusses Grenada with Prime Minister Eugenia Charles of Dominica in the Oval Office in October 1983. The invasion of the Caribbean island Grenada in 1983, ordered by President Reagan, was the first major foreign event of the administration, as well as the first major operation conducted by the military since the Vietnam War.
The troops responsible for the operation (the 7,300 American military personnel were supported by a small Caribbean expeditionary force, made up of troops from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Jamaica, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) took almost total control of the island in three days.
On 25 October 1983, the vanguard of 7,600 troops from the United States, and 350 from the Caribbean Peace Force, invaded Grenada, encountering resistance from the People's Revolutionary Army. On the morning before the invasion, the PRAF mustered a permanent force of 463 men, supplemented by 257 militia and 58 untrained NJM party members. [ 11 ]
A day after Trump said the U.S. hasn't often used the military to guard the border, the Homeland Security Secretary talked about such past operations.
The Caribbean peacekeepers were not involved in combat, which officially ended on Nov. 2, 1983. U.S. combat troops left the island on Dec. 12, 1983. The peacekeeping force remained on Grenada until the spring of 1985 to allow the reconstituted domestic police force to be fully trained and equipped. [1]
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This is a list of international presidential trips made by Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States. Ronald Reagan made 24 international trips to 26 different countries during his presidency, which began on January 20, 1981 and ended on January 20, 1989. [1] Reagan visited four continents: Europe, Asia, North America, and South ...