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| | Grenada, 1983: Operation "Urgent Fury" |
 | | This plan became known as Operation Urgent Fury“, and it included the deployment of a single brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division, specific units of the 1st Special Operations Command, and parts of the 1st Special Operations Wing, from Hurlburt Field AFB, in Florida. |
 | | Otherwise, the operation "Urgent Fury" remains an example for typical US interventions in similar cases until today, even when it comes to the losses: in less than three days of - frequently bitter - combat 19 US servicemen were killed, and 116 injured. |
 | | Certainly, "Urgent Fury" was no "invasion of a Golf course", as some claim, but a very serious engagement. |
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