“[I found] myself engulfed in a dense gray fog of ash,” [Colonel Tim Geraghty] recalled, “with debris still raining down.” His logistics officer, Major Bob Melton, then motioned to Geraghty and gasped, “My God, the BLT [Battalion Landing Team] building is gone!”  ‘Hours after the Sunday, Oct. 23, 1983, bombing of the Marine barracks in … Continue reading The Marines Barracks Bombing: Anatomy of an Attack