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four Navy SEALs drowning? SEALs don't usually drown.
Delta was near the airfield before the Rangers jumped in but were essentially pinned down. (from the link I posted below)
A U.S. Army Delta Force reconnoitered Point Salines for the next day's invasion. Both the
SEALs and the Delta Force ran into stiff enemy opposition in the St. George's area and at nearby Point Salines.
Good detailed read here about Grenada:
https://media.defense.gov/2012/Aug/2...urgentfury.pdf
Guy in my unit in Panama, SGT Pack, was at that time a Ranger in the first pass of aircraft to jump into Point Salines. Had the "mustard stain" on his jump wings. He told us that his group of Rangers got dropped and the aircraft were taking heavy fire from AAA. They temporarily halted dropping anymore guys as they called in an AC-130 Spectre to work over the AAA positions. The guys on the ground didn't know this and all they saw when they hit the ground was the rest of the C-130's pull away. He said the first thing that crossed his mind was "Holy fvck, they left us!"
Essentially it was a clusterfvck that managed to work in the end.
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