Operation Golden Pheasant



         


Operation Golden Pheasant was an emergency deployment of 82nd Airborne and 7th Infantry Division troops by parachute and regular air-landing operations to Honduras in 1987 as a show of force, as a result of threatening actions by the forces of the (then socialist) Nicaraguans.





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