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...troops are stationed in 112 countries, from Iceland to the Philippines. But this year, at least, the most visible departures and homecomings have had a U.S. locus, the stretch of North Carolina that includes the Marines' Camp Lejeune and the Army's Fort Bragg. This month, 2,000 troops returned from Grenada, and 1,800 Marines, some aboard the Iwo Jima, came back from Lebanon. They stepped into a familiar dream. Bands played. Infants were tweaked. Couples swung M-16s out of the way and hugged. The troops were home. They had served, and served well...
When the transports touched down at Pope Air Force Base near Fort Bragg, N.C., four hours later, the returning troops were met by a banner-waving crowd. "Let no one tell you you're not in an Army of excellence, because you are excellent," shouted Deputy Under Secretary of the Army John W. Shannon over the din on the rain-drenched tarmac. President Reagan echoed the sentiment in a speech before the Congressional Medal of Honor Society in New York City: "Our days of weakness are over. Our military forces are back on their feet and standing tall...
Grenadians looked on with benign amusement as their "rescuers" indulged in a quaint American custom last week. Thanksgiving provided a break in the culinary monotony for U.S. troops, who dug into ham, sweet potatoes and 1,670 Ibs. of hot turkey airlifted in from Fort Bragg, N.C. The feast, which some troops washed down with pungent Algerian wine liberated from the Cubans, even had a trickle-down effect for 100 local schoolchildren: they received C rations donated by U.S. soldiers. The spirit of giving heightened the good feeling that in general has held up since the Americans arrived. Petitions with...
...Wednesday that "hostilities have ceased." Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger then ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces to begin. By week's end the invasion force of 6,000 paratroopers, Army Rangers and Marines had dwindled to about 2,500 men of the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, N.C., and up to 500 support personnel. The 400 soldiers contributed by Grenada's neighboring island nations (Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Jamaica, St. Lucia and St. Vincent) took up routine police duties, patrolling harbors and checkpoints. A task force of six Navy ships, headed by the aircraft carrier Independence, resumed...
With some 1,900 U.S. troops now on Grenada, the Pentagon ordered two battalions of reinforcements from the 82nd Airborne Division, based at Fort Bragg, N.C. That brought the invasion force to 3,000. Conceded Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman John Vessey: "We got a lot more resistance than we expected...