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On 24 April 2008, Company D, 3rd Battalion, 160th SOAR was inactivated at a ceremony conducted at Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia, as part of a regimental transformation plan. [30] The 160th SOAR also took part in the 2008 Abu Kamal raid. An MH-60L deploys an ODA from 7th Special Forces Group onto the deck of a U.S. Navy submarine
Dwyer, 38, was one of five 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR), or Night Stalkers, soldiers who died Nov. 10 when their MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter went down over the Mediterranean ...
The 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR), a U.S. Army Special Operations Command unit known as the "Night Stalkers," provided the two modified Black Hawk helicopters [79] that were used for the raid itself, as well as the much larger Chinook heavy-lift helicopters that were employed as backups. [51] [66] [77]
Durant was a member of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Night Stalkers) as a Chief Warrant Officer 3. He retired from the U.S. Army as a Chief Warrant Officer 4 Blackhawk helicopter Master Aviator in the 160th SOAR after participating in combat operations Prime Chance , Just Cause , and Desert Storm , and also Gothic Serpent , in ...
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In October 1981, the unit was officially designated the 160th Aviation Battalion. The 160th first saw combat during 1983's Operation Urgent Fury, the U.S. invasion of Grenada. In 1986, the unit was re-designated as the 160th Aviation Group (Airborne). The modern-day 160th SOAR(A) was officially activated in June 1990.
MH-60L Black Hawk: Special operations modification, used by the U.S. Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment ("Night Stalkers"), based on the UH-60L with T700-701C engines. It was developed as an interim version in the late 1980s pending the fielding of the MH-60K specifically designed for the 160th SOAR(A). [172]
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