In memory of the Marines killed in the Beiruit barracks terrorist attack

[ripcord]

To all those killed, wounded and those that labored for days in the aftermath, we remember you.

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Amazing how a stupid decision killed 260 Maines.

Then we attacked some country in SA that really wasn't holding US hostages. USA. USA!

[Inkey]

2. My age group of young men

I remember seeing the reports of this
tragedy and thinking what different roads
we all take; the future awaits most of us.
May their families know we do remember.

[Oldtimeralso]

3. Wasn't it the week before

That St. Ronnie said that we would never cut and run?

[Skittles]

4. yup

that was Reagan......fuck that POS

[Boomerproud]

5. The day it happened I thought if a Democrat was president...

but Ronnie got a huge pass. Proves all our points about the on bended knee media.

[scarletlib]

9. Yes, amazing. No unlimitless investigations by Congress. No cries of Benghazi in the media.

All that for 4 men killed at an ambassadorial outpost under a Democrat. Nothing for all those men killed under a Republican.

[Elessar Zappa]

6. ...

[Raine]

7. R-I-P 🕊️ 🙏 🕯️nt

[keithbvadu2]

8. Beirut Marine sentries with no bullets in their guns

Repubs all irate about Benghazi and Hillary but not much about Reagan killing over 200 servicemen.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-08-22-mn-2223-story.html

He told committee members that he decided to forbid most of the Marine sentries to carry ammunition in their rifles because of the danger of an accidental shooting amid the heavy civilian traffic at the airport.

For the same reason, he said, anti-tank rockets, which might have prevented the terrorist’s truck from reaching the barracks, were not kept ready at the gates to the compound.

Col. Timothy J. Geraghty, who commanded the 1,800 Marines in the war-torn Lebanese capital, told the House Armed Services Committee that adequate defenses could not be built around the Marine barracks at the Beirut airport because his troops’ peacekeeping mission was more political and diplomatic than military.

https://www.google.com/search?q=beirut+bombing+1983+sentries+no+bullets&rlz=1C1AWUC_enUS1014US1023&sxsrf=ALiCzsZ4qM5b27QvZZT9P9hirAhavoGg7g%3A1666609588660&ei=tHFWY4_uJ-Wu5NoPkd6Q0Aw&ved=0ahUKEwiPmIvE3Pj6AhVlF1kFHREvBMoQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=beirut+bombing+1983+sentries+no+bullets&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBQgAEKIEMgcIABAeEKIEMgcIABAeEKIEMgUIABCiBDIFCAAQogQ6BwgAELADEEM6CQgAEAcQHhCwAzoICAAQgAQQsAM6DggAEIAEELEDEIMBELADOgcIABAeELADOgUIABCABDoGCAAQFhAeOgUIABCGAzoFCCEQoAE6BQghEKsCSgQIQRgBSgQIRhgAUO0KWPSYAWCJ2AFoAXAAeACAAZYBiAH-EJIBBDguMTKYAQCgAQHIAQrAAQE&sclient=gws-wiz

[MarineCombatEngineer]

10. I lost a lot of friends and comrades in that bombing.

To my fellow Marines that died or were injured that day.... Semper Fi Devil Dogs.

[LeftinOH]

11. But remember we got "revenge" two days later...by invading Grenada.

which totally pulled attention away from the Beirut debacle.

[GoCubsGo]

12. My cousin was one of those who had to clean up the aftermath.

He thought there were a lot more dead than they admitted to. I don't know if there's a way to cover up something like that, but given that it was Reagan, I wouldn't put it past him to something like that.

[Jimbo S]

13. I was a HS senior

I had a friend looking to enlist after school and this gave him some pause. He enlisted anyhow.