Grenada Rangers '83 | Joe Muccia | Ep. 296
The Team House
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🗓️ 7 September 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Books about combat are compelling. There's an inherent thirst for the stories about brave men, completing impossible tasks under the worst of conditions. Cry Havoc tells the story of how the Army Rangers emerged from the shadow of the Vietnam War, and morphed themselves into what World War II hero and former commander of US forces in Vietnam General Creighton W. Abrams called, "the finest light infantry in the world." In October of 1983, those men would conduct the first mass combat parachute drop since Vietnam and do so under intense fire from Cuban and Grenadian forces.
Once the Rangers hit the ground, the action didn't stop. Over three days, they cleared the enemy from commanding positions overlooking the airfield, rescued over 400 US medical students, and conducted an air assault on an enemy training facility, an action that was considered a 'suicide mission'. And yet they accomplished all of their missions in the best tradition of their Ranger forefathers.
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| 0:57.0 | Hey everyone welcome to episode 296 of the team house. I'm Jack Murphy here with |
| 1:07.4 | our guest tonight Joe Muccia. Joe is the author of Cry Havoc, the untold story of Rangers at war with his co-author Tom Greer. |
| 1:16.6 | We're really excited to have him on the show. |
| 1:18.6 | This is, as far as I know, the first time many of these stories have been told publicly. |
| 1:23.7 | I'm he this really is from the ranger perspective of first and second ranger |
| 1:29.0 | battalion guys who jumped in a Grenada in 1983. |
| 1:32.3 | An operation that has kind of like slipped through the cracks of history in some ways, I feel like. |
| 1:39.0 | But you accomplished, you know, telling these guys stories through this book cry havoc so thank you |
| 1:44.1 | Joe I really appreciate you taking the time to write this book now it's a pleasure |
| 1:48.4 | I'm glad to come on and talk about it these guys are in many cases they're my friends so it's really easy to talk about them. |
| 1:55.0 | That's great. |
| 1:56.0 | So, Joe, I guess the first question, I'd like to ask a little bit about you. |
| 2:00.0 | Tell us a little bit about your background, your military background, and sort of what led that towards you becoming, you know, something of a historian at this point. |
| 2:09.0 | Yeah, I'm a retired marine and I worked for the government. |
| 2:15.0 | I start out as an intel analyst and by nature intel analyst if you're a smart one you you pay close attention to history. |
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