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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: MikeBjerum on October 22, 2014, 10:04:50 PM
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The Beirut Barrack Bombing (October 23, 1983, in Beirut, Lebanon) occurred during the Lebanese Civil War when two truck bombs struck separate buildings housing United States and French military forces.
A truck loaded with explosives crashed through the security perimeter of the United States Marine Corps barracks. In the explosion that followed, 241 United States military personnel were killed: 220 Marines, 18 Sailors, and 3 Soldiers.
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http://www.beirut-memorial.org/memory/brtnames.html
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I was on active duty in Germany at the time. I had to pause and think about what else was going on back then. We "invaded" Grenada two days later. This place will tell you a lot about any year. http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1983
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I had been retired from the USAF for 3 years when that had happened.