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The 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne), abbreviated as 160th SOAR(A), is a special operations force of the United States Army that provides helicopter aviation support for special operations forces. Its missions have included attack, assault, and reconnaissance, and these missions are usually conducted at night, at high ...
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 ...
Five soldiers of a 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment were killed in a training mission overseas. It's the 2nd fatal crash involving Fort Campbell soldiers this year.
Soliders from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiments, known as the Night Stalkers, were killed in a training exercise. Here's what we know about the group. ... Soliders from the 160th ...
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 ...
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]
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.
The capabilities of the 160th SOAR (A) have been evolving since the early 1980s. Its focus on night operations resulted in the nickname, "Night Stalkers." [81] The primary mission of the Night Stalkers is to conduct overt or covert infiltration, exfiltration, and resupply of special operations forces across a wide range of environmental conditions.