Operation Nifty Package
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Operation Nifty Package was a United States Delta Force and Navy SEAL-operated plan conducted in 1989 designed to capture the de facto ruler of Panama Manuel Noriega who ruled through puppet president
Noriega is escorted onto a U.S. Air Force MC-130E Combat Talon I by agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and U.S. Marshals Service.
The United States invasion of Panama began in mid-December 1989 during the presidency of George H. W. Bush. The purpose of the invasion was to depose the de facto ruler of Panama, General Manuel Norie
Operation Nifty Package
…as "a low moment in U.S. Army history", noting that their approach had been silly, reproachable, and undignified. Launched in the starting hours of Operation Just Cause, this operation was handled by SEAL Team 4. Consisting of 48 U.S. Navy SEALs (three SEAL Platoons; Golf, Bravo, and Delta) under the command of Lt…
Clockwise from top: Marines stand guard with their LAV-25 Aircraft parked at Tocumen Airport Three U.S. soldiers walk past a restaurant Flames engulf a Panama City neighborhood
1st Lt Robert Paz, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines
George H. W. Bush President of United States of America at the time
Elements of 1st Bn, 508th Infantry parachuting into a drop zone, during training, outside of Panama City