Operation Urgent Fury: the attack on Grenada

[Navy Chief]

I was with Attack Squadron Fifteen (VA-15), onboard the USS Independence (CV-62), for Urgent Fury, the attack on Grenada.

Today, I was going through the list of Youtube videos, and happened upon two that I found quite fascinating. The audio of both videos include 1MC transmissions from the CO of the USS Independence, Capt. Jerry Breast. It was so interesting, listening to these recordings, as I distinctly remember hearing them when the Skipper spoke to the crew. Never thought I would be "reliving" those moments! :salute:

Navy Chief



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01-dz6tVSuw


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqUp4G0784E

[Creepy847]

thx for posting that Chief. I was there with an army unit Co.C. I remember it being very hot for Oct after leaving the states. We had afew wounded but no KIA from my Co. Did loose a friend from another Co and I will not mention his name here out of respect to him and his family.

Again thx for posting.

Semper Fi and Rangers lead the way!

Creeps.

[Navy Chief]

An unfortunate incident happened to the CO of our squadron. The ground troops radioed in the coordinates for a target, which turned out to be a hospital by mistake. Our skipper was understandably upset when finding out afterwards what he had dropped ordnance on....NC

[TeaSea]

I was in the 82nd...we had one KIA due to a miss drop of ordnance....perhaps same incident Chief. Target was apparently incorrectly identified either on the ground or in the air...never found out which. I will also withhold his name, but I had just finished doing a report of survey on him for loss of a generator just a month prior--he wasn't held liable.

I asked one of my guys about it (I wasn't there) and he said it wasn't so scared when the first pass came by and dropped...it was seeing the A-7 come around for the second pass where he said he experienced absolute terror. Fortunately it was a check fire.