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The US Invasion of Grenada. A 1983 United States–led invasion of the Caribbean island nation of Grenada, which has a population of about 100,000 and is located 160 kilometres (99 mi) north of Venezuela, that resulted in a U.S. victory within a matter of weeks. Codenamed Operation Urgent Fury, it was triggered by an armed revolution and overthrow of the sitting government by the Grenadian Marxist-Leninist vanguard party ‘New Jewel Movement’ with support of Cuban forces.  

The U.S. Army’s Rapid Deployment Force, which consisted of the 1st and 2nd Ranger Battalions, 82nd Airborne Division, U.S. Marines, U.S. Army Delta Force, and U.S. Navy SEALs constituted the 7,600 troops from the United States and Jamaica. 

The U.S-led force defeated Grenadian resistance after a low-altitude airborne assault by the 75th Rangers on Point Salines Airport on the southern end of the island, and a Marine helicopter and amphibious landing on the northern end at Pearl’s Airfield shortly afterward.

A friend and I bought a bunch of surplus Russian plum and bakelite AK magazines last week to split since it was cheaper to buy in bulk from Legion USA (also, I had a coupon). The mags came today, and I now have what is possibly the single most cursed item I have ever owned.

This magazine was likely carried either by a Russian vehicle driver or possibly even Spetsnaz during the Chechen Wars of the 1990s, as the Tula star indicates it was issued with an AKS-74U carbine, which usually got sent to one of those two groups. I had a Russian acquaintance translate the trench art. The first inscription reads “death to the circumcised,” a reference to the predominantly-Muslim Chechens. The other reads “For Dima!!!”, who was presumably a friend of the soldier who carried this mag and was KIA.

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Cops bash man’s head into wall, pepper spray him, and laugh