71
10
Grenada Update Briefing for OpsDeps, 24 Oct 83, TS-SENS, Sec 1, J-3 Chron
File (URGENT FURY), J-3/JOD Files; Prillaman Interview; Merritt Interview;
Vessey Interview; Schwarzkopf Interview; MAJ Bruce Pirnie, USA, Operation
URGENT FURY: The United States Army in Joint Operations (Washington: USA
Center of Military History, 1986), S, pp. 73-74.
11
Operations Planning Group (OPG) Outline of Operations on Grenada, Final
Update, 1500, 2 Nov 83, U, J-3/JOD Files; Schwarzkopf Interview; LtCol Ronald
H. Spector, USMCR, US Marines in Grenada, 1983 (Washington, USMC History and
Museums Div, 1987), pp. 8-9; CJCS Backgrounder to the Press, 29 Oct 83, U; GEN
Vessey, Interview with “Meet the Press,” 6 Nov 83, U, CJCS Files; Army Times,
5 Nov 84, p. 34; Minutes of JCS Mtg, by Col David H. Roe, USAF, Spec Asst on
Jt Matters to DJS, 25 Oct 83, TS, JHO Files; Crist Interview; DOS and OD,
“Preliminary Report,” 16 Dec 83, U, p. 27; Draft Rpt for J-3, Jan 84, S, J-
3/OPD Files; URGENT FURY Log Book, 240030Z and 250045Z Oct 83, TS, J-3/JOD
Files; Msg, JCS to USCINCLANT, 250701Z Oct 83, S; Msg, JCS to Army, 250717Z
Oct 83, S; UF MSEL, J-3/JOD Files; Msg, State to JCS, 251722Z Oct 83, S, UF,
Opnl Msg File, GF-3, J-3/OPD Files; Pirnie, Operation URGENT FURY, S, pp. 119-
120; Telecon, JCS-USMC, 251900Z Oct 83, TS, UF MSEL, J-3/OPD Files; Vessey
Interview.
12
Schwarzkopf Interview; Pirnie, Operation URGENT FURY, S, pp. 119-120;
Spector, US Marines in Grenada, 1983, pp. 10-11; CAPT Michael F. O’Brien, USN,
interviewed by Dr. Cole, 19 Nov 87, S, JHO Files; During URGENT FURY O’Brien
led Attack Squadron (VA) 87 on sorties from the USS
Independence
; OPG Final
Update, 2 Nov 83, U, J-3/JOD Files; Telecon, JCS-USMC, 251900Z Oct 83, TS, UF
MSEL, J-3/OPD Files.
13
Rpt, USCINCLANT to CJCS, 6 Feb 84, S, CJCS Files; Analysis of the Lind
Report, 1 May 1984, S, CJCS Files; Army Times, 5 Nov 84, p. 34; Schwarzkopf
Interview; Baltimore Sun, 5 Jun 84, p. 7; Vessey Interview; OPG Final Update,
2 Nov 83, U; Msg, USCINCLANT to COMJTF 120, 271622Z Oct 83, S, UF MSEL, J-
3/JOD Files; Draft Rpt for J-3, Jan 84, S, J-3/OPD Files; Rpt, USCINCLANT to
CJCS, 6 Feb 84, S, CJCS Files; James Kitfield, Prodigal Soldier (NY, NY: Simon
& Schuster, 1995), p. 266.
14
URGENT FURY Log Book, 260209Z Oct 83, TS; Msg, USCINCLANT to JCS, 260611Z
Oct 83, S; Msg, USCINCRED to XVIII Abn Corps, 261210Z Oct 83, S, UF Opnl Msg
File, GF-4, J-3/JOD Files; Prillaman Interview; Draft Rpt for J-3, Jan 84, S,
Memo, JCS to J-3, 262500Z Oct 83, S, UF MSEL, J-3/OPD Files; Merritt
Interview; Msg, MajGen Crist to JCS, 262100Z Oct 83, S, Sec II, J-3 Chron File
(URGENT FURY); OPSUM, URGENT FURY, for Congressional Delegation, prepared for
COL Cullom, 2 Nov 83, S, UF File, J-3/JOD Files; Msg, CJTF 120 to USCINCLANT,
270030Z Oct 83, S, UF File, J-5/WHEM Files; Crist Interview; Msg, JCS to
USCINCLANT, 270313Z Oct 83, Sec 1, J-3 Chronology, S, URGENT FURY, J-3/OPD
Files; Msg, USCINCLANT to JCS, 270946Z Oct 83, and reply 272245Z Oct 83, S, UF
MSEL, Opnl Msg File, GF-5, J-3/JOD Files; Mins of JCS Mtg, by Col David H.
Roe, USAF, Spec Asst on Joint Matters to DJS, 27 Oct 83, TS, JHO Files; Msg,
SecDef to USCINCLANT, 261815Z Oct 83, and reply, 270517Z Oct 83, S, UF File,
J-5/WHEM Files; Msg, SecDef to JCS, 271354 Oct 83, S, UF Opnl Msg File, GF-5,
J-3/JOD Files.
15
President Ronald Reagan’s interview by reporters at the White House of 25
Oct 83, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 31 Oct 83, p. 1487;
Prillaman Interview; Rpt, USCINCLANT to CJCS, 6 Feb 84, S; GEN Vessey,
interviewed on “Meet the Press,” 6 Nov 83, U, CJCS Files; Vessey Interview;
Ltr, GEN John W. Vessey, Jr., USA (Ret) to BG David A. Armstrong, USA (Ret),
Director for Joint History, OCJCS, 1 Sep 96, U, JHO; hereafter Ltr, GEN Vessey
to BG Armstrong, 1 Sep 96.
16
Vessey Interview with “Meet the Press”; Vessey Interview; J-3/OPD Joint
Overview, 1 May 85, S, JHO Files.
17
Rpt, USCINCLANT to CJCS, 6 Feb 84, S, CJCS Files (See updated J-3 casualty
chart in historian’s files); Major Mark Adkin, URGENT FURY: The Battle for
Grenada (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1989), p. 309; Michael Clodfelter,
Warfare and Conflicts: A Statistical Reference to Casualty and Other Figures,
1618-1991, Vol II (London: McFarland, 1991), p. 1180.