I’ll tell you. The 1980’s and 90’s Army was a completely different beast. It was the rise of masculinity and no political correctness. It was cleaner, sharper, focused, and structured. For some reason after 9/11, it changed drastically… the military started worrying about quantity instead of quality at that point. The Army was looking for anybody to send to Iraq and Afghanistan, standards started becoming more relaxed, anybody could get in, I guess that’s the price in fighting a two-front war in Iraq and Afghanistan with a completely volunteer-only military to recruit numbers. But fast forward to the present day and the U.S military is nowhere similar to what it was back in the day as you see in this video. It may have even cost our military going forward with so many compromises, catering, and political affiliation now… sad times indeed.
@@arttheclown9458 Yeah nah. The difference between the military you're criticizing and the military you served in is that we have actual combat experience. @me when you've humped a 240 and 1200 rounds of ammo up and down mountain day in and day out for a year. Or when you went house to house to house until the sun came up in Sadr city, day after day, month after month. Say what you want about the politics of modern times, but as woke as you think the military is, were far more lethal that your generation could have dreamed to be.
Interesting to see the evolution of the US military post-Vietnam war and pre-Gulf war. Most soldiers had the newer style helmets, but some had the Vietnam era vintage. T-shirts + loose flack jackets blasting away with artillery was classic Vietnam, along with the green camo. Most of the rest of the gear would not be out of place in Kuwait in '91.
Now a days your face is either baby face or hitler mustaches. Anything else and thats an article 15. You must wear your entire kit. Hair is to be exact and dress right dress. Hell the mp's can give you a ticket for playing music in your car to loud. This is why last time they came to our barracks to be assholes we took their shoes and tossed them in a tree.
The feud that started between the Rangers and the 82nd because of those friendly fire incidents in Grenada was alive and well as late as 2006 when I went through basic. Our senior drill sergeant was a career 82nd man and refused to call cadences mentioning the Rangers and would intentionally change the words to others to downplay the ranger references.
@@buak809 In a nutshell units got dropped in the wrong place/poor communication and the feud comes from neither unit willing to admit that they made mistakes. Ultimately the mission was enough of a success that no one cared that mistakes were made and everyone moved on. it's kind of shocking how little afterthought the militarily gave to these smaller operations between Vietnam and OIF/OEF (I'm including the Gulf War in those smaller operations btw) Mark Bowden even remarks in the epilouge of Black Hawk Down how amazed he was that no real scrutiny of the battle of Mogadishu had taken place until after he wrote his book.
Well, your drill sergeant was a drama queen. There was a very, very short few shots fired at the 82nd when they first showed up, but then the Rangers linked up and coordinated. We were with the Rangers for a few hours, then they went off and did their own thing. There were no more friendly fire incidents. Now, there was a crap ton of friendly fire incidents between elements of the 82nd, but no one was wounded or killed.
@@buak809 Because nothing ever happened. The dude's Drill SGT was a drama queen. I was with the lead element of the 82nd, and except for a very brief few shots fired in our direction, the Rangers realized we were not enemy, and then linked up with us.
@@Irish_Pirate oh shit, the beauty of the internet where after so many years people can meet who were in the same operation but within different unit, it shows new perspective of certain events!
@@theZinator i have a playlist consisting of almost entirely music i heard in sams videos, and its my most played playlist. I dont care for his edits anymore actually, I just like discovering new music through him
Grenada was a changing point for the US military. Lots of newer gear and equipment was coming into service, but there were still much of the older gear and equipment left over and used in Operation Urgent Fury. Wasn't until 85 that the US had fully switched over to the new gear, that would later go on to be used during Desert Shield and then Desert Storm.
There was still a lot of old stuff used in desert storm as far as i know, you are right though. Grenada was a changing point, a lot of communication problems were solved and inter-service rivalry was broken apart for a few years until it started happening again.
@@williamsherman1942 I know a lot of Marines in Desert Storm had a lot of older gear. Still a lot of the M60 tanks being used along with Abrams. National Guard had a bunch of older stuff too.
The main change, and the biggest one that persists to this day, was the creation of JSOC. Prior to Grenada, all branches of the US military had individual combat commands, so if the Marines needed help from the Army during a joint operation, they had to call the head of the Marines and THAT guy had to call the head of the Army. Grenada, done on short notice with rapidly evolving battlefield conditions, demonstrated how this approach was DISASTROUS for any modern operation.
2:06 this is probably one of the two Navy Seals team, that were dropped in to the sea at the beginning of the op. Unfortunately one team of 4 NS drowned, because of rough sea. It might be possibly the team of four on the footage.
The way the music syncs up with certain scenes just makes it so good, like the scene with the Huey lifting off at 4:03 and the A-7s being catapulted at 2:40……phenomenally perfect. I don’t know how he does it.
My Dad was in the Canadian Army doing cooperative training exercises with the Americans in Yakima. He recalled to me about the time when him and the rest of his unit woke up one morning and found the base was deserted. The American liaison assigned to the unit informed them that everyone else got deployed to Grenada that morning. My Dad was furious because he wanted to go too.
My son just sent this to me. I was 2nd ANGLICO. We were with the 22nd MEU, on the way to relieve the 24th. We were told of the bombing of the BLT on 23 Oct. We fast roped into Pearl's on the 25th. This brought back a lot of memories.
My dad's classmate died there after the helicopter was met with heavy gunfire and crashed... Grenier, Spec. 4 Philip S., Worcester, Mass Rest in peace.
There is a picture I've seen floating around the net of a dead US airman laying near the waterline face up and in the water was a crashed CH-46. I wonder if that was him?
I am no military nerd, but damn do majorsamm's videos make me want to become one so I can read about all the crazy stories that no one ever hears about.
@@MajorSamm If you take suggestions can you do a recent conflict in the Philippines called the Seige of Marawi back in 2017, there's tons of footage in r/Combatfootage subreddit, I would like to see your take.
When I was younger I had this babysitter named Judy, she was a kid in Grenada when they got invaded. I had watched Heartbreak Ridge one day and was talking to her about it, and she told me she woke up one morning and she said she just felt the ground shaking from all the helicopter propellers. I hope she’s okay
Greneda was a small island invaded by the most powerful country on earth meanwhile in Lebanon Hezbollah kills 200 + marines in the Beirut baracks attack Americans run home. This is akin amount to me beating a child and being proud of it.
I remember the Hell of being off Grenada that week. The evaporators weren't working due to the warm sea water so we were on water hours the whole time. The galley served boiled hot dogs 4 times that week If that wasn't enough, the VCR broke down so nightly movies were cancelled.
M1 Helmets, mixed with PASGT's, Woodland camos that was still in use by the Gulf War, some Jeeps and Humvees, M14's, M16's, the image of the U.S Military before all the wars in the East was still Woodland, i love the post Vietnam and pre Gulf vibe..
Ship on 0:53 is just like the one where I work! We still use them in Spanish Navy, quality ship. Hard and narrow place to be in. You cant even sit on your bed and you share bedroom whit 29 more sailors.
I really appreciate your work, your videos give me goosebumps every time. Your content is really unique and resonates deeply with me, creating mixed emotions. I hope you never stop
My dad was in Ranger Regiment during this operation and jumped into Grenada. He very well could have been in this video somewhere. Pretty neat Edit: I sent this to my dad. Most of these shots are of the 82nd Airborne. You can tell because they have kevlars. Rangers had m1 steel pots. Also 4:26 Rangers, were only equipped with 60mm mortars, not heavy artillery pieces.
60s are pretty standard in ranger units. theyre light, jumpable, can be shot in a handheld configuration and you can carry lots of ammo gor them fairly easy. work well on raids which are rangers bread and butter. source: am mortarman
@@Joshua_N-AI would assume that's still pretty standard as I know 80s and 90s marine rifle teams normal had a 60 mike Mike in there rifle platoon but you also.have to remember the rangers really acted alot as normal infantry from ww2 up till about 93 in Mogadishu where they were more spec ops if you get what I mean like smaller teams
19 Americans die and 24 civilians killed: "OMG THIS IS A HUGE FAILURE! THE US MILITARY HAS NO IDEA WHAT ITS DOING!!!!!" 200 Russians die and 500 civilians are killed in Georgia: "This was a stunning success comrade! We are the best army in the world!"
@@josephpapilson7224 thats because they are cucks willing to die because basic healthcare is unexistant but also willing to fund the Israeli missile program with Billions of their taxes lmao
@@Fulcrox Israeli missiles are made here, like Israeli tank engines (designed in Germany!), Israeli APCs, and Israeli mobile artillery. It's just more defense industry recycling
It's an M21. It was the primary sniper rifle at that time. We didn't have digital cameras either. There were some crappy pocket cameras many people carried.
I had just completed boot camp and was getting ready to transition to Infantry AIT when Operation Urgent Fury took place. You can bet I wanted to go to Airborne and Ranger schools after that. The US made a lot of mistakes in Grenada but it was like a training exercise to try out all the new warfighting strategies that were developed in the 70s like Ranger Battalions, Delta Force, Joint Operations, etc., etc. to fight smaller and more manageable wars. I finally got to Ranger School in 1990 where one of the legends of Urgent Fury, SGM Donnie Shocklee. was one of our instructors. Sadly, he was killed doing a MFF jump at night over Dugway Proving ground when we conducted our airborne drop at Desert Phase. I always think of him when I see these old Grenada videos. Many of the legends of Mogadishu like John "Mace" Macejunas were also involved in Urgent Fury. #RLTW
ah yes I'm sure the civilians bombed liked to take part in that training. War is disgusting and those who like it either didn't experience it or are weirdos
I never wanted to be a Ranger. When I met my commander capt.chris Zimmerman of 75th Ranger reg. I knew I had made a terrible mistake. He had me in way over my head. I never knew where we were or what we were doing until the pep talk.
@@GhostRanger5060 you're right, training for war is necessary. however, training for it on active targets is not. let's be honest, the only reason Grenada was invaded was because Reagan wanted to stick it somewhere in a small island he knew we'd steamroll
The cut at 0:44 to the battle ships cruising through the water is so well timed. The full might of the US Navy is floating towards your doorstep. Any last one of us would be shitting bricks if they were coming to fuck up our country
Love your channel, the algorithm does nothing but try to take me to other channels, after every single video it try’s to direct me to another video from another channel. Keep up the good work Sam.
Awesome video, but somewhere in the middle we oughta briefly see Crockett & Tubbs in a Stinger 390X running into a setting sun, pitching over the wave tops, heading to the Bahamas to finally get Calderone....
Congrats! I served on the Eisenhower 87 to 91 as a "regular" Boatswains mate. Enjoy your time, be safe on the flight deck. I'll never forget watching the F14 tomcats launch with full afterburners on my first MED cruise.
Hey I read this before this was sort of disastrous militarily for the US but that was only because of limited to no Intel and had to use tourist maps, 19 troops were killed: 4 seals from a parachute incident, I don't remember how many from friendly fire and the rest from combat. But at the sametime Cuba got a taste of its own bay of pigs invasion medicine. Surprisingly it was also the fight that was supposed to stop the Vietnam Syndrome which it sort of did during this era.
US MILITARY HAS A 70%- 90% FAILURE RATE. Go look at all their wars. may 2 and that is being kind, their military force won. IN THE MOVIES: they win ever single operationsincluding Aliens from other planets. long term war and long term dynasties = requires real intelligence and some people just suck at it. Even germs they lost. Grenada and others beat covid. USA 1 million death + counting.
It was a short war!...only Cubans militia fought and caused 19 US soldiers killed in the airport battle....Granada army fled without fire a single shot.
And now back to yet another significant event in our history that for some reason nobody ever talks about. My guess is the semester always ends before it can be covered. If I were in charge, I'd have a course for U.S. history since WWI.
We dont have actual history lessons in school because actual histoty will paint the usa as the bad guy...so we get a hald assed summery of ww2 where the usa defeated all and we made a slight whoopsie in vietnam and the koreN war is called the forgotten war for a reason...we dont wanna talk about killing 25% of a population, indiscriminately carpet boming civilian centers, and poisoning crops with anthrax...cutting a border in half and installing a dictator....nah, we will just forget that war all together
You cannot expect an educational system whose goal is to teach you conformity to teach you anything you actually want to learn about. Better to educate yourself.
@@mikeyorkav4039 Who taught you this? Are you being serious? Our system may be antiquated, but History class in the United States is very thorough. Most history taught in the US isn't even US history, it's World History, separated by before and after the 1800's. Indiscriminately carpet-bombing civilian centers, and poisoning crops with anthrax, cutting a border in half and installing a dictator are basic historical topics covered in Highschool in ONE out of FOUR academic years. All of those things are taught in the context they occurred in, usually accompanied by a discussion on their importance and the precedence they set. The only class that is lacking, likely on purpose, is the course US Civics. The fact is, most kids don't understand the value of what they're learning until they are older, so even if they were taught it once, they usually cant recall it without independent research. One of the main exports of the United States is higher education. Students come from all over the world, paying top dollar, to attend AMERICAN schools. For a reason./endrant
@@nicholasthuya7683 Yes. Footnotes in the history chapters usually. Except segregation, that has a whole slew of context to cover, in the greater scheme of rebuilding the southern states and a lack of federal centralization/oversight (at the time). For the record, the US troops that pulled that sh1t were held accountable.
There is no democracy anywhere. So called democratic countries as well are ruled by unelected oligarchic elites who controls presidents, politicians, parliaments - their talking heads, and make population believe they live in democracy through mass media
Not only that, but also the fact that a communist dictator deposed a democratically elected socialist from power. So it’s really not your average “east vs west” type of issue… Oh yeah, that and kidnapping American citizens! Good riddance! Edit: typo.
Cause they didn’t have an army and sent like 5000 police officers… bro they’re a bunch of island nations with tourism as their MAIN source of income. How tf are you supposed to have a standing army??? Must be American with all that patriotism in the brain instead of logic
Lmao Grenadian communists advocating for a race war in the United States and then wondering why Rangers, Marines, and Paratroopers are pushing their shit in 😂
Awesome as aways, man! Seeing footages of the Panama invasion while Panama by Van Halen is playing on the background would be awesome as well! Thanks 💪🏻🇧🇷
My first one. I turned 18 in jump school, 19 in Urgent fury. They built a monument for our KIAs. We got all the students out with zero even hurt. Always combat afterwards. Retired Infantry in 2008
gotta love this video, they show my ship USS Guam LPH 9 and even the flight deck. What the history books have forgotten is that terrorists were captured in that operation.
@@kylezdancewicz7346I do think that the government who overthrew Maurice Bishop was wrong but even when Bishop was in power the US did everything to make life difficult for him, boycotting and the like They just used him being overthrown as a excuse for regime change. They had no right to decide what’s best for grenadians
@@kylezdancewicz7346 if your talking about americas revolutionaries you have no knowledge of our history lol there was nothing "democratically elected" about our leader (the fucking king, lmao)
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the 80s military aesthetics are pretty much how myself as a kid would imagine soldiers would look like
I feel that. Then I went army infantry and got mismatched camo making me look like some mall ninja tacticool wannabe lmao.
I’ll tell you. The 1980’s and 90’s Army was a completely different beast. It was the rise of masculinity and no political correctness. It was cleaner, sharper, focused, and structured. For some reason after 9/11, it changed drastically… the military started worrying about quantity instead of quality at that point. The Army was looking for anybody to send to Iraq and Afghanistan, standards started becoming more relaxed, anybody could get in, I guess that’s the price in fighting a two-front war in Iraq and Afghanistan with a completely volunteer-only military to recruit numbers. But fast forward to the present day and the U.S military is nowhere similar to what it was back in the day as you see in this video. It may have even cost our military going forward with so many compromises, catering, and political affiliation now… sad times indeed.
@@arttheclown9458 Thanks for your peace time service bud.
@@andrewhackney6286 boot.
@@arttheclown9458 Yeah nah. The difference between the military you're criticizing and the military you served in is that we have actual combat experience. @me when you've humped a 240 and 1200 rounds of ammo up and down mountain day in and day out for a year. Or when you went house to house to house until the sun came up in Sadr city, day after day, month after month. Say what you want about the politics of modern times, but as woke as you think the military is, were far more lethal that your generation could have dreamed to be.
I particularly like the BRDM armored car with "USMC" daubed on the side.
Quite possibly the best display of tactical procurement ever witnessed at the time.
Where's Gunny Highway in all of this?
Engravings don`t give you tactical advantage. Whatsoever.
@@zigapp8186 it's to prevent friendly fire stoopid
@@josephwhite6047 He was making a metal gear reference.
Interesting to see the evolution of the US military post-Vietnam war and pre-Gulf war. Most soldiers had the newer style helmets, but some had the Vietnam era vintage. T-shirts + loose flack jackets blasting away with artillery was classic Vietnam, along with the green camo. Most of the rest of the gear would not be out of place in Kuwait in '91.
Brilliant.
Best aesthetic in mu opinion so beautiful
@@samsara_miko Reject modernity, embrace tradition
@@samsara_miko ㄹㅇ 우리나라 헬멧은 왜 그따구일까 진짜 볼때마다 디자인 누가했을까 싶음
Now a days your face is either baby face or hitler mustaches. Anything else and thats an article 15. You must wear your entire kit. Hair is to be exact and dress right dress. Hell the mp's can give you a ticket for playing music in your car to loud. This is why last time they came to our barracks to be assholes we took their shoes and tossed them in a tree.
And he's back 🔥
Love your content and Majorsamm's History With Hilbert you guys keep doing what your doing
we love you dude
much love
He kijk het is Hilbert 😃
And it's only taken me two weeks to check the comments, whoops.
The feud that started between the Rangers and the 82nd because of those friendly fire incidents in Grenada was alive and well as late as 2006 when I went through basic. Our senior drill sergeant was a career 82nd man and refused to call cadences mentioning the Rangers and would intentionally change the words to others to downplay the ranger references.
What exactly happened? And why? Did those responsible face the consequences?
@@buak809 In a nutshell units got dropped in the wrong place/poor communication and the feud comes from neither unit willing to admit that they made mistakes. Ultimately the mission was enough of a success that no one cared that mistakes were made and everyone moved on. it's kind of shocking how little afterthought the militarily gave to these smaller operations between Vietnam and OIF/OEF (I'm including the Gulf War in those smaller operations btw) Mark Bowden even remarks in the epilouge of Black Hawk Down how amazed he was that no real scrutiny of the battle of Mogadishu had taken place until after he wrote his book.
Well, your drill sergeant was a drama queen. There was a very, very short few shots fired at the 82nd when they first showed up, but then the Rangers linked up and coordinated. We were with the Rangers for a few hours, then they went off and did their own thing. There were no more friendly fire incidents. Now, there was a crap ton of friendly fire incidents between elements of the 82nd, but no one was wounded or killed.
@@buak809 Because nothing ever happened. The dude's Drill SGT was a drama queen. I was with the lead element of the 82nd, and except for a very brief few shots fired in our direction, the Rangers realized we were not enemy, and then linked up with us.
@@Irish_Pirate oh shit, the beauty of the internet where after so many years people can meet who were in the same operation but within different unit, it shows new perspective of certain events!
I like how the dude doing the cheer at 2:16 isn't wearing any line or harness to keep him from falling out the plane chute.
Well if he fell out, he would have the rest of his life to figure it out.
That's the price of FREEDOM!
Real badass
He's wearing a parachute anyways
He's got a free fall rig on.
Yet another song that'll be stuck in my head for two weeks. Not that Im complaining though. Nothing but the best from you!
Perhaps I'm a tad bit too young, but I had never heard about Russ Ballard, but I'm listening now :-P
MajorSamm has great taste in music!
My top played songs on Spotify are mainly songs I learned from MajorSamm videos
@@theZinator i have a playlist consisting of almost entirely music i heard in sams videos, and its my most played playlist. I dont care for his edits anymore actually, I just like discovering new music through him
Heard it from Miami Vice, and now this
This was in the Miami Vice episode where they kill Calderone.
Note the Jamaicans with their L1A1 rifles and Brit-style black berets around 4:00. An overlooked part of the invasion
They came in with the Commonwealth Task Force (Barbados, Bahamas, and Jamaica)
Grenada was a changing point for the US military. Lots of newer gear and equipment was coming into service, but there were still much of the older gear and equipment left over and used in Operation Urgent Fury. Wasn't until 85 that the US had fully switched over to the new gear, that would later go on to be used during Desert Shield and then Desert Storm.
There was still a lot of old stuff used in desert storm as far as i know, you are right though. Grenada was a changing point, a lot of communication problems were solved and inter-service rivalry was broken apart for a few years until it started happening again.
@@williamsherman1942 I know a lot of Marines in Desert Storm had a lot of older gear. Still a lot of the M60 tanks being used along with Abrams. National Guard had a bunch of older stuff too.
@@My-Name-Isnt-Important Yup, there’s still old stuff we use today. If it works it ain’t broke.
The main change, and the biggest one that persists to this day, was the creation of JSOC. Prior to Grenada, all branches of the US military had individual combat commands, so if the Marines needed help from the Army during a joint operation, they had to call the head of the Marines and THAT guy had to call the head of the Army. Grenada, done on short notice with rapidly evolving battlefield conditions, demonstrated how this approach was DISASTROUS for any modern operation.
Same thing is happening now
2:06 this is probably one of the two Navy Seals team, that were dropped in to the sea at the beginning of the op. Unfortunately one team of 4 NS drowned, because of rough sea. It might be possibly the team of four on the footage.
Lmao navy seal that drown. That's America for you. Can't do shit right
@@DennisMartinezCalifornia still won the war with a 1.785% casualty rate
@@joeswansonthesimphunter2612 If you can call a war the invasion of that little island whit the size of a city....
@@andrescuervo6187 well I guess it would be a war, albeit a small one
@@DennisMartinezCalifornia you seriously think you have better survival chance at sea than Navy Seals?
The way the music syncs up with certain scenes just makes it so good, like the scene with the Huey lifting off at 4:03 and the A-7s being catapulted at 2:40……phenomenally perfect. I don’t know how he does it.
Pulls those beats all the time
Carefully and with a lot of time, thank you my man
@@MajorSamm just keep doing right, brother
Very chad name good sir
You should watch the original miami vice version
My Dad was in the Canadian Army doing cooperative training exercises with the Americans in Yakima. He recalled to me about the time when him and the rest of his unit woke up one morning and found the base was deserted. The American liaison assigned to the unit informed them that everyone else got deployed to Grenada that morning. My Dad was furious because he wanted to go too.
You mean Yakima Washington? Is that where Ft. Lewis is?
We had a job to do brother, sorry to say but the Canadian government has never known how to finish a job.
@@williamsherman1942
Canada finished the US armed forces.
_Twice._
@@fds7476 Bs, 1812 was a draw where we burned York first and then destroyed the redcoats under Jackson
@@williamsherman1942
Seethe.
My son just sent this to me. I was 2nd ANGLICO. We were with the 22nd MEU, on the way to relieve the 24th. We were told of the bombing of the BLT on 23 Oct. We fast roped into Pearl's on the 25th. This brought back a lot of memories.
Thanks for Your Service
Thank you for your service Matt
Did you happen to know a man by the name of Mark Young? Part of the 75th?
I was with 2/8 Semper fi
Thank you for your service🇺🇸
My dad's classmate died there after the helicopter was met with heavy gunfire and crashed...
Grenier, Spec. 4 Philip S., Worcester, Mass
Rest in peace.
70th like.
There is a picture I've seen floating around the net of a dead US airman laying near the waterline face up and in the water was a crashed CH-46. I wonder if that was him?
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@@jamesvazquez2491 I don’t think it’s him
May he be in Heaven
I am no military nerd, but damn do majorsamm's videos make me want to become one so I can read about all the crazy stories that no one ever hears about.
Head over to your local library they always got all the cool stuff.
The wild stories are half the fun of hunting down footage for these videos.
@@MajorSamm If you take suggestions can you do a recent conflict in the Philippines called the Seige of Marawi back in 2017, there's tons of footage in r/Combatfootage subreddit, I would like to see your take.
Knew a chopper pilot who was in Grenada and was in a senior warrant officer command in the early years of OIF, dude was a beast! What a time it was...
lol that was probably my dad
@@existentiallydead5998 Possibly :)
When I was younger I had this babysitter named Judy, she was a kid in Grenada when they got invaded. I had watched Heartbreak Ridge one day and was talking to her about it, and she told me she woke up one morning and she said she just felt the ground shaking from all the helicopter propellers. I hope she’s okay
Past 3:00 you can see other Military Troops from Barbados, Jamaica and other Caribbean Nations from the Eastern Caribbean getting into the fight.
Based Coalition wars.
3:29 this dude with the balaclava and carbine is everything I wish to be
Spec ops in the 80’s were wild
0:44 A sight that says “You’ve made a poor choice” in every language.
You shouldve said "0:24 signs that say your country is down a bad road".
I mean, 0:44 could also mean: a new oil reserve has been found
a sign that says : Murica is the world's bully , it never was about choices
Imagine going to a Caribbean island for a fun vacation and then multiple simultaneous communist uprisings take place, wild shit dude
That's what your problem is with all this?
time to pick a side
@@420JackG Well, one of the reasons for invading was the multiple US citizens trapped on the island. Also f*cking COMMIES, REEEEE!!!
And then some dude from Florida with an M16 needs your tourist map because he doesn’t know where he’s going
@@thegriffinman1771 Spc. Floridaman
I was in a military surplus store and they played this song. I immediately got flashbacks to this video for a minute.
Very interesting to see a BRDM with USMC paint on the side that’s pretty cool
Grenada was the ultimate mix of Vietnam era and modern military equiments, that's why it's so damn cool.
Greneda was a small island invaded by the most powerful country on earth meanwhile in Lebanon Hezbollah kills 200 + marines in the Beirut baracks attack Americans run home. This is akin amount to me beating a child and being proud of it.
@Colin Mor It is, haven't made it myself tho
All 14.0 hours of conflict.
Yeah, War is cool! MURICA!!!!
@@isAfuchs no, war is hell :/
I remember the Hell of being off Grenada that week.
The evaporators weren't working due to the warm sea water so we were on water hours the whole time.
The galley served boiled hot dogs 4 times that week
If that wasn't enough, the VCR broke down so nightly movies were cancelled.
A wonderful gift on my birthday. Thanks MajorSamm!
No shit, is it you birthday too???
¡Happy birthday Clade!
Have a nice day
Keep it good comrade
Also you Arbe
@@javiermendoza9607 thanks budd
Happy bday Clade, it's nice to find another 1st Decemberer
Happy birthday to you
At 02:18 the dispatcher is so happy about the succesful deployment. Makes me also happy!
M1 Helmets, mixed with PASGT's, Woodland camos that was still in use by the Gulf War, some Jeeps and Humvees, M14's, M16's, the image of the U.S Military before all the wars in the East was still Woodland, i love the post Vietnam and pre Gulf vibe..
2:16 Possibly my favourite scene in this video: the jumpmaster just going like "YEAH" after all those divers & the RIB deploy
Paratroopers are badass
@@williamsherman1942 those arent paratroopers those are SEALs, all 4 of them later drowned
@@mixmaster2909 Doubt they were the same 4 seals who drowned.
@@williamsherman1942
Just because you say so.
Ok.
Pretty cool that you also showed footage of the CPF running around.
I would never have heard of this song if it wasn't for the US Invasion of Grenada
I've actually heard this a lot that just me?
Miami Vice for me
Whats the name of the song
@@ctc4392 Description
@@SubtlyAggressive i found it its called voices
Ship on 0:53 is just like the one where I work! We still use them in Spanish Navy, quality ship. Hard and narrow place to be in. You cant even sit on your bed and you share bedroom whit 29 more sailors.
I loved the russian apc with U.S.M.C. marking...:)
Happy to see you are back!
4:18 never thought I'd see a BRDM with USMC painted on it's side lol.
Saw one with wolverines!
Saw one with wolverines!
Saw one with wolverines!
Major Samm, a true film maker genius, love it everytime, continue delivering masterpieces , would appreciate it
I'll try my best, thank you for watching.
You have problems with logos, linguistics and understanding semantics of word "masterpiece". Educate yourself.
@@TrueNeutralEvGenius ooh somebody mad
@@beratedbandit5196 You?
@@TrueNeutralEvGenius kinda seemin like you
Why tf the guy at 0:04 look like the giga Chad dude
weakest granadan communist
I really appreciate your work, your videos give me goosebumps every time. Your content is really unique and resonates deeply with me, creating mixed emotions. I hope you never stop
Exactly this.
@@peng9179 i think it comes from being fans of history, but i feel it too, this contents hits different
Interesting seeing OD green, M1 helmets, and full wood M14s being used side by side with full PASGT gear and blackhawks
My dad was in Ranger Regiment during this operation and jumped into Grenada. He very well could have been in this video somewhere. Pretty neat
Edit: I sent this to my dad. Most of these shots are of the 82nd Airborne. You can tell because they have kevlars. Rangers had m1 steel pots. Also 4:26 Rangers, were only equipped with 60mm mortars, not heavy artillery pieces.
My dad was 82nd here. I had the same sort of realization that any one of these dudes may have known him.
Only 60mm mortars? Hope they did use the most out of them. Were there some setbacks with the procurement at that time?
60s are pretty standard in ranger units. theyre light, jumpable, can be shot in a handheld configuration and you can carry lots of ammo gor them fairly easy. work well on raids which are rangers bread and butter.
source: am mortarman
@@Joshua_N-AI would assume that's still pretty standard as I know 80s and 90s marine rifle teams normal had a 60 mike Mike in there rifle platoon but you also.have to remember the rangers really acted alot as normal infantry from ww2 up till about 93 in Mogadishu where they were more spec ops if you get what I mean like smaller teams
nice touch that at 2:19 you've synced it up so that it says "don't look back look straight ahead" just as the paratroopers are about to jump
That shot at 2:59 with the chinooks and the music is so freaking cool
The entirety of Grenada was such a shitshow. Poor basterds that got sent into that just had no idea.
Another great video as usual, Majorsamm. O7
joint operations that weren’t joint-operations until after the passing of the Goldwater-Nichols act
@@Joe-zo6mw my brain hurts now after reading that 3 times
19 Americans die and 24 civilians killed: "OMG THIS IS A HUGE FAILURE! THE US MILITARY HAS NO IDEA WHAT ITS DOING!!!!!"
200 Russians die and 500 civilians are killed in Georgia: "This was a stunning success comrade! We are the best army in the world!"
@@josephpapilson7224 thats because they are cucks willing to die because basic healthcare is unexistant but also willing to fund the Israeli missile program with Billions of their taxes lmao
@@Fulcrox Israeli missiles are made here, like Israeli tank engines (designed in Germany!), Israeli APCs, and Israeli mobile artillery. It's just more defense industry recycling
Until I saw the guy with the M14, this looked like pretty modern combat. After I saw him it just looked like Vietnam, but filmed with digital cameras.
It's an M21. It was the primary sniper rifle at that time. We didn't have digital cameras either. There were some crappy pocket cameras many people carried.
Finalmente un canale di storia militare come si deve. Grande MajorSamm!!! Da un amico italiano🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
Good thing too. Soldiers used commercial telephones to call their bases in the states to coordinate supporting air and naval support.
0:04 gigachad
😂
People never remember this fight when arguing that Cold War tactics never worked.
With each video you make, I learn a new part of history and have fun doing it. Thank You MajorSamm!
You're welcome my man, thank you for watching.
I am not the first,neither the last.
Chad
My dad’s probably in here somewhere. Jumped out with the 75th on Port Salines. Master Sgt Mark Young.
I had just completed boot camp and was getting ready to transition to Infantry AIT when Operation Urgent Fury took place. You can bet I wanted to go to Airborne and Ranger schools after that. The US made a lot of mistakes in Grenada but it was like a training exercise to try out all the new warfighting strategies that were developed in the 70s like Ranger Battalions, Delta Force, Joint Operations, etc., etc. to fight smaller and more manageable wars. I finally got to Ranger School in 1990 where one of the legends of Urgent Fury, SGM Donnie Shocklee. was one of our instructors. Sadly, he was killed doing a MFF jump at night over Dugway Proving ground when we conducted our airborne drop at Desert Phase. I always think of him when I see these old Grenada videos. Many of the legends of Mogadishu like John "Mace" Macejunas were also involved in Urgent Fury. #RLTW
ah yes I'm sure the civilians bombed liked to take part in that training. War is disgusting and those who like it either didn't experience it or are weirdos
@@vanoliale Your virtue-signaling self-righteousness is sad. No one likes war. But training for it is a necessary reality. Go back to sleep.
@dayRman commie YT channel
I never wanted to be a Ranger. When I met my commander capt.chris Zimmerman of 75th Ranger reg. I knew I had made a terrible mistake. He had me in way over my head. I never knew where we were or what we were doing until the pep talk.
@@GhostRanger5060 you're right, training for war is necessary. however, training for it on active targets is not. let's be honest, the only reason Grenada was invaded was because Reagan wanted to stick it somewhere in a small island he knew we'd steamroll
The cut at 0:44 to the battle ships cruising through the water is so well timed. The full might of the US Navy is floating towards your doorstep. Any last one of us would be shitting bricks if they were coming to fuck up our country
"The people of Grenada speaks English!"
US Military: "Perfect, this will make your capitulation much easier."
The cut after the intro is just comedic gold.
Sad also
Nothing better than a MajorSamm video after being locked out of the house for 2 hours
I feel relieved for you
/he never got back in/
Nothing more badass than an m16 with an m203 on it.
Love your channel, the algorithm does nothing but try to take me to other channels, after every single video it try’s to direct me to another video from another channel. Keep up the good work Sam.
"Marine! What the fuck is that?!"
"It's our new Armored Car Gunny! The previous owners don't need it anymore"
"OUT-FUCKING-STANDING MARINE"
Awesome video, but somewhere in the middle we oughta briefly see Crockett & Tubbs in a Stinger 390X running into a setting sun, pitching over the wave tops, heading to the Bahamas to finally get Calderone....
Your choice of music is always perfect
I’m glad you’re back, cheers and God bless
I served with a "Grenada Ranger" in the 90's that man was the shit and I'd follow him anywhere as long as I can keep up!
Your content is slowly getting better and different ngl
Yes it is for sure and in a very very good way
If by "better and different" you mean "more pandering to an adolescent alt-right audience", then yes.
@@jutback why do u think this
@@alexwright9875 we still didn’t get an answer
I was just thinking about building a grenada kit, hell yeah!
2:39 just finished A school for aviation boatswain mate really makes me hyped as fuck because I’ll be launching aircraft like that fuck yea
Congrats! I served on the Eisenhower 87 to 91 as a "regular" Boatswains mate. Enjoy your time, be safe on the flight deck. I'll never forget watching the F14 tomcats launch with full afterburners on my first MED cruise.
Stay safe kids, use protection
@@darkstormy1545 the most whole comment I’ve seen this week
Glad you back i hope everything is okay now
Mark felton productions made an episode of this good to see a common interest. Although both have different genres.
Hey I read this before this was sort of disastrous militarily for the US but that was only because of limited to no Intel and had to use tourist maps, 19 troops were killed: 4 seals from a parachute incident, I don't remember how many from friendly fire and the rest from combat. But at the sametime Cuba got a taste of its own bay of pigs invasion medicine. Surprisingly it was also the fight that was supposed to stop the Vietnam Syndrome which it sort of did during this era.
It wasn’t a disaster, i would rather call it a situation which could’ve been avoided and therefor saved multipe lifes.
US MILITARY HAS A 70%- 90% FAILURE RATE. Go look at all their wars.
may 2 and that is being kind, their military force won.
IN THE MOVIES: they win ever single operationsincluding Aliens from other planets.
long term war and long term dynasties = requires real intelligence and some people just suck at it.
Even germs they lost. Grenada and others beat covid. USA 1 million death + counting.
It was a short war!...only Cubans militia fought and caused 19 US soldiers killed in the airport battle....Granada army fled without fire a single shot.
It was so short it's not even called a war they just call it an invasion.
Welcome back, were happy to have you back. Hopefully everything is getting better in your life!
The US needs that 1980’s look again
These guys are the ultimate Manly Mcbeefington...
Like Mad Mike Hoare said once: "Men Amongst Men, The Real McCoy"
a soviet BRDM under control of marines is funny as fuck
And now back to yet another significant event in our history that for some reason nobody ever talks about. My guess is the semester always ends before it can be covered. If I were in charge, I'd have a course for U.S. history since WWI.
We dont have actual history lessons in school because actual histoty will paint the usa as the bad guy...so we get a hald assed summery of ww2 where the usa defeated all and we made a slight whoopsie in vietnam and the koreN war is called the forgotten war for a reason...we dont wanna talk about killing 25% of a population, indiscriminately carpet boming civilian centers, and poisoning crops with anthrax...cutting a border in half and installing a dictator....nah, we will just forget that war all together
You cannot expect an educational system whose goal is to teach you conformity to teach you anything you actually want to learn about. Better to educate yourself.
@@mikeyorkav4039 Who taught you this? Are you being serious? Our system may be antiquated, but History class in the United States is very thorough. Most history taught in the US isn't even US history, it's World History, separated by before and after the 1800's. Indiscriminately carpet-bombing civilian centers, and poisoning crops with anthrax, cutting a border in half and installing a dictator are basic historical topics covered in Highschool in ONE out of FOUR academic years. All of those things are taught in the context they occurred in, usually accompanied by a discussion on their importance and the precedence they set. The only class that is lacking, likely on purpose, is the course US Civics.
The fact is, most kids don't understand the value of what they're learning until they are older, so even if they were taught it once, they usually cant recall it without independent research.
One of the main exports of the United States is higher education. Students come from all over the world, paying top dollar, to attend AMERICAN schools. For a reason./endrant
@@F343x2 do they teach you about racial segregation in the US army
Or how Yank troops beat up Commonwealth troops that weren’t white in pubs ?
@@nicholasthuya7683 Yes. Footnotes in the history chapters usually. Except segregation, that has a whole slew of context to cover, in the greater scheme of rebuilding the southern states and a lack of federal centralization/oversight (at the time).
For the record, the US troops that pulled that sh1t were held accountable.
Remember that all the *democratic* nations around Grenada willingly helped the US take care of the issue.
There is no democracy anywhere. So called democratic countries as well are ruled by unelected oligarchic elites who controls presidents, politicians, parliaments - their talking heads, and make population believe they live in democracy through mass media
Not only that, but also the fact that a communist dictator deposed a democratically elected socialist from power. So it’s really not your average “east vs west” type of issue…
Oh yeah, that and kidnapping American citizens! Good riddance!
Edit: typo.
Cause they didn’t have an army and sent like 5000 police officers… bro they’re a bunch of island nations with tourism as their MAIN source of income. How tf are you supposed to have a standing army??? Must be American with all that patriotism in the brain instead of logic
Very good
Doesn't mean the war wasn't BS and fought over nothing.
2:17 I heard live combat drops were low but holy shit that must have been a hard landing even in water
0:35 ah, the kim in the north.
Lmao Grenadian communists advocating for a race war in the United States and then wondering why Rangers, Marines, and Paratroopers are pushing their shit in 😂
Love your work, bringing knowledge of unknown conflicts to all of us
2:20 love how the fact the lyrics match with the video
Another great production. Thanks for sharing.
The king is back
Hope you're doing better now mate
Awesome as aways, man! Seeing footages of the Panama invasion while Panama by Van Halen is playing on the background would be awesome as well! Thanks 💪🏻🇧🇷
While I love the Multicams I wear everyday, something about woodland and PASGT looks aesthetically superior.
2:18 my fav part, u can see the happiness in that guy
He seems one of those strict but secretary fan of toy-soldiers kinda leader, he really does lol.
It's always a great day when Majorsamm uploads a new video.
My first one. I turned 18 in jump school, 19 in Urgent fury. They built a monument for our KIAs. We got all the students out with zero even hurt. Always combat afterwards. Retired Infantry in 2008
I dont know why but I find the artillery firing at 4:26-4:32 oddly satisfying.
I love this song. It was featured on Miami Vice, which I think exemplifies the era as much like the intervention in Grenada does.
2:15 Bro emoted lol
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
And just like that, he is back. Outstanding work as usual. By the way the timing is perfect.
gotta love this video, they show my ship USS Guam LPH 9 and even the flight deck. What the history books have forgotten is that terrorists were captured in that operation.
Tks Major!
America literally said "Nice opinion. One small issue; I am inside your home."
The opinion of revolutionaries who overthrew a democratically elected leader.
@@kylezdancewicz7346I do think that the government who overthrew Maurice Bishop was wrong but even when Bishop was in power the US did everything to make life difficult for him, boycotting and the like
They just used him being overthrown as a excuse for regime change.
They had no right to decide what’s best for grenadians
@@kylezdancewicz7346 if your talking about americas revolutionaries you have no knowledge of our history lol
there was nothing "democratically elected" about our leader (the fucking king, lmao)
FURY FROM THE SKY APPROVES
good stuff, thanks sir.
Nothing like waking up with a little MajorSamm in your cup ☕️💯
I didn't know this war had happened until today. Thanks for a great video!
Back at it again with the awesomeness.
I remember watching this on tv as it happened. Wow, was forever ago. Thankyou for memories I forget I had.