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...first public evidence that an American-led invasion was under way would be the drone of Navy and Marine helicopters ferrying combat troops to the airport from ships offshore. If all went as planned, they would quickly seize control and flash the green light for troops from the 82nd and 101st Airborne divisions arriving from bases in North Carolina and Kentucky. At the same time, Marines would arrive to reinforce the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince...
...sanctions designed to compel the release of kidnapped diplomats, for example, do not challenge vital interests. But when the underlying objective is nothing less than regime toppling, even tinhorn dictators have successfully resisted sanctions. Cuba's Castro has survived for 35 years. Panama's Noriega held on until the 82nd Airborne removed him. Haiti's military thugs promised their resignations when George Bush imposed sanctions in 1991, but they reneged after concluding that ! Clinton lacked the guts to take them out. The same goes for Serbia...
...June 6, just after midnight, 16,000 paratroopers from the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne divisions dropped chaotically into the dark coastal countryside to protect the western flank of the incoming army against counterattacks. Lost in low clouds, many of the planes missed their drop sites by miles, but the scattered paratroopers, snapping cricket noisemakers to find each other, gradually regrouped and moved toward the beach. An additional 8,000 men from the British 6th Airborne jumped in to guard the eastern flank, catching the Germans guarding key bridges by complete surprise...
...invasion of Haiti is about as attractive a prospect as a rusting Pinto. Unlike our last Caribbean military adventure, Club Grenada '83, there will be actual fighting with many American deaths, and there will be a conspicuous lack of pretty medical students to run up and hug the 82nd Airborne when they "liberate" the island...
There was Kevin, our instructor and mentor, an old 82nd Airborne vet who (as it said on the license he passed around) had made 2054 jumps in the six years he had been a member of the United States Parachuting Association...