40th Anniversary Operation EAGLE CLAW 🇺🇸

[WillBrink]

40 years! I remember when this happened well. I was 15. That was a win the US needed being post 'Nam, but it was not to be. I also found Beckwith's account of Carter in his book interesting as it was not least bit negative. This is a great summary video from the men who were there. Called "the most successful failure in history" they learned a lot and it lead to major changes and the development of USSOCOM and more.

[BoringGuy45]

40 years! I remember when this happened well. I was 15. That was a win the US needed being post 'Nam, but it was not to be. I also found Beckwith's account of Carter in his book interesting as it was not least bit negative. This is a great summary video from the men who were there. Called "the most successful failure in history" they learned a lot and it lead to major changes and the development of USSOCOM and more.

Carter really doesn't deserve much blame for Eagle Claw. And honestly, at the time, and throughout most of his post-presidential years, he wasn't too bad. It was only around the time of the Iraq War that he decided to bend over and be the far left's bitch. Eagle Claw was just the cherry on top of a shit sundae that had been building since the end of Vietnam.

[chuckman]

Bucky Burruss , Delta XO at the time, is in his 80s now, had a 8-mile speed ruck in commemoration and to raise money for SOWA...

[ABNAK]

I was a freshman in high school when it happened. I recall the pic of the M3A1 "grease gun" with suppressor attached in the burned-out wreckage of one of the aircraft.

[Slater]

I was a young A1C at Davis-Monthan AFB at the time. We weren't sure if war was imminent or not.

"The Guts To Try", written by the air component commander Jim Kyle, is a decent treatment of the subject.

[chuckman]

I was a young A1C at Davis-Monthan AFB at the time. We weren't sure if war was imminent or not.

"The Guts To Try", written by the air component commander Jim Kyle, is a decent treatment of the subject.

Great book.

[Sam]

Rescue force loading up. Picture courtesy of the Facebook page of Stanislaw Tereznikov.

[OH58D]

I was a young A1C at Davis-Monthan AFB at the time. We weren't sure if war was imminent or not.

"The Guts To Try", written by the air component commander Jim Kyle, is a decent treatment of the subject.

I was across town from you at the University of Arizona, @ 21 days before I commissioned. That fiasco was a contributory factor to the build up of SOCOM and my first long term aviation assignment.

I am guessing you weren't at Davis-Monthan in October 1978 when the A7-D crashed on the south side of the U of Arizona campus? I was on the mall in front of the Student Union building when I heard the pop from the pilot ejecting. After that they changed the pattern for landing at Davis-Monthan.

[utahjeepr]

I was 11 at the time, I remember feeling like the US was pretty powerless. The hostage crisis in general, this disaster, pali-rags throwing terror tantrums left and right. Despite the talk of all the vets at the barbershop, it didn't seem like we were much of a power in the world let alone a "superpower".

[LMT Shooter]

Eric Haneys book Inside Delta Force goes into this story a bit. It's a good read overall.