re: #227 Hecuba’s daughter

Wasn’t the purpose of the Grenada invasion to distract from the Beirut disaster that killed 241 Marines and other US military?

re: #230 Ace Rothstein

Yes.

re: #231 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It was also a training mission for the Military to keep the press on a short leash.

No. Unless Nancy Reagan had been told about the Beirut bombing in one of her seances before it happened.
Navy SEALs parachuted into the waters off Grenada only hours after the attack in Beirut, after delays, forcing them to insert during a storm.

When we were alerted at Ft Bragg Monday night we assumed we were going to Beirut. This was after we spent Monday updating our shots and life insurance paperwork. SEALs had already deployed and were conducting reconnaissance. The bombing had occurred Sunday morning.