Iran Hostage Crisis Essay

being on the NEO. It was apparent the emotional and political connection the JCS, and other policymakers had to the Iran Hostage Crisis. In the beginning stages of the crisis in Grenada, they were fearful of a possible reoccurrence of what happened at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran. This caused them to act in such a haste, to launch a military operation without adequate intelligence or a proper communications plan outlined. By October 19, 1983, just seven days after the coup to that removed Maurice Bishop from power, a decision was made to implement two types of military operations, NEO and combat operations. U.S. officials never weighed the potential risk of not allowing sufficient time for intelligence collection or addressing the communication issues between services. On October 23, 1983, a radical Islamic group detonated two suicide truck bombs on a building serving as barracks to 1st Battalion, 8th Marines. The bombing killed 241 U.S. servicemen to include Marines, Sailors, and Soldiers. This, combined with an appeal from Sir Paul Scoon to free his country, prompted President Reagan to act expeditiously on ending the crisis in Grenada. President Reagan ordered an assault, where his priority would be the American
Simultaneously, Army Rangers and Navy SEALs were to parachute in, landing near the Port Salines Airport. The Marines’ objective was to take control of the airport and the Northern side of the island. The SEALs’ objective was to rescue Governor-General Scoon at his residence while the Army Rangers were to secure the airfield and rescue the American medical students at the nearby St George’s campus. An internal navigation system failure on one of the C-130s caused the Rangers and the SEALs jump to be delayed by 36 minutes, thus costing them the element of