SPECIAL OPERATIONS
Operation Acid Gambit (1989)
Operation Acid Gambit was a plan to retrieve Kurt Muse, an American civilian living in Panama and widely reported to be a CIA operative incarcarated in the Carcel Modelo, a notorious prison in Panama City. Muse had been arrested in 1989 for setting up covert anti-Noriega radio transmissions in Panama. Political considerations delayed the raid, conducted ... FULL STORY
Operation Flavius (1988)
Operation Flavius was the name given to an operation by a Special Air Service (SAS) team in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988 tasked with preventing a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb plot. The IRA Active Service Unit's (ASU) members, Danny McCann, Seán Savage and Mairéad Farrell, conspired to detonate a car bomb where ... FULL STORY
Operation Mount Hope III (1988)
In June 1988, the 160th Special Operations Aviation Group (SOAG) and other US Special Operations Forces received a last minute directive to recover a Russian-made Mi-24 Hind attack helicopter from a remote location in Africa. In 1960, Chad had gained independence from France. Its neighbor, Libya, recognizing the unrest in the new country, took advantage of ... FULL STORY
Operation Prime Chance (1987)
Operation Prime Chance (August 1987-June 1989) was a United States Special Operations Command operation intended to protect U.S.-flagged oil tankers from Iranian attack during the Iran-Iraq War. The operation took place roughly at the same time as Operation Earnest Will (July 1987-December 1988), the largely Navy effort to escort the tankers through the Persian Gulf. ... FULL STORY
Operation Urgent Fury (1983)
The Invasion of Grenada, codenamed Operation Urgent Fury, was a 1983 United States-led invasion of Grenada, a Caribbean island nation with a population of about 100,000 located 100 miles (160 km) north of Venezuela. Triggered by a bloody military coup which had ousted a four-year revolutionary government, the invasion resulted in a restoration of constitutional government. ... FULL STORY
Operation Paraquet (1982)
Operation Paraquet was the code name for the British military operation to recapture the Island of South Georgia from Argentine military control in April 1982 at the start of the Falklands War. The official name "Paraquet" is an alternative spelling of Parakeet, but the operation is perhaps more widely known as Operation Paraquat, an unofficial ... FULL STORY
Operation Nimrod (1980)
The Iranian Embassy Siege of 1980 was a siege of the Iranian embassy in London after it had been taken over by Arab separatists. The siege was ended when British special forces, the Special Air Service (SAS), stormed the building in Operation Nimrod. The incident brought the SAS to the world's attention as the whole ... FULL STORY
Operation Eagle Claw (1980)
Operation Eagle Claw (a.k.a. Operation Evening Light) was a United States military operation to rescue the 52 hostages from the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran on April 24, 1980. The failure of the operation led to the creation of the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) and the U.S. Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment ... FULL STORY
Operation Entebbe (1976)
Operation Entebbe was a hostage-rescue mission carried out by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on 4 July 1976. A week earlier, on 27 June, an Air France plane with 248 passengers was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists and supporters and flown to Entebbe, near Kampala, the capital of Uganda. ... FULL STORY
Operation Spring of Youth (1973)
The 1973 Israeli raid on Lebanon (known as Operation Spring of Youth, part of Operation Wrath of God) took place on the night of April 9 and early morning of April 10, 1973 when Israel Defense Forces special forces units attacked several Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) targets in Beirut and Sidon, Lebanon. The operation is generally ... FULL STORY
Operation Crate 3 (1972)
On June 21, 1972, Israeli commando unit Sayeret Matkal participated in Operation Crate 3, an operation to kidnap 5 Syrian intelligence officers to facilitate the release of 3 Israeli airmen that were kidnapped by the Syrians. ... FULL STORY
Operation Isotope (1972)
Sabena Flight 571 was a scheduled passenger flight from Vienna to Tel Aviv operated by the Belgian national airline, Sabena. On May 8, 1972 a Boeing 707 passenger aircraft operating that service, and captained by the Englishman, Reginald Levy, DFC, was hijacked by four terrorists from the Black September organization and landed at Lod Airport ... FULL STORY
CA Fields AN/PRC-152
FORT BRAGG, NC – They may not be the best thing since sliced bread, but in the radio world of the foot Soldier, the Harris ... FULL STORY
