The 160th SOAR (A) is the only Special Operations Aviation Regiment in the world. Things to be discussed will be the unit’s operational history that the soldiers have done. These soldiers are known as the Night Stalkers due to their proficiency in night time operations. They go through special training and use special helicopters and other special equipment to accomplish their mission during all weather operations during day or night. The Night Stalkers start their history with Operation Eagle Claw. This Operation was to be the rescue of the 66 hostages from the Iranian U.S. embassy. The mission was simple get the 8 navy RH-53D (Sea Stallion) helicopters to Desert One (FARP) refuel and load a 120 man assault team proceeds to the U.S. embassy, extract the 66 hostages and get back on the helicopters and extract through Tehran. This lead to the Holloway commission which reviewed Operation Eagle Claw and made it a lessons learned experience. Some additional factors were training, intelligence, pilots, aircrew, helicopters, and weather. So they decided to make a small unit of dedicated personnel and equipment to make sure the mistakes would not happen again. Naturally they wanted to pull personnel and equipment from a unit that had some experience. So they turned to the branch and unit that had the most of both the 101st Airborne, having had the experience of flying in Vietnam. So they pulled Charlie and Delta Companies from the 158th Aviation Battalion with their new UH-60 Black Hawks, they also need some heavy lift capabilities and picked up Alpha Company of the 159th Aviation Battalion with CH-47C and then they needed some light scout aircraft so talked to Bravo Company 229th Attack Helicopter Battalion with the OH-6A... ... middle of paper ... ...vival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) level C+, and helicopter overwater survival training (Dunker School) just to name a few of the school these soldiers will go through. They use special equipped helicopters that include AH-6, MH-6, MH-60’s, and MH-47 helicopters. Soldiers in this unit also have to maintain a SECERT security clearance. Briefly discussed was the operations that the 160th has taken part in and outlined some of the additional schools and requirements and the special equipment these soldiers know as Night Stalkers use to arrive time on target plus or minus 30 seconds. These men have become a vital part of USSOCOM and the US Army, with their ability to fly at night and in any weather. There have been many lost due to training and combat and they will not be forgotten and their names are on the Night Stalk Memorial wall at Fort Campbell, KY.
Parsons, Othal T. Interview by author, 17 April 1995. Mail questionnaire. 12th Armored Division Historical Project, Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas.
It was mid-afternoon on October 3, 1993. There were approximately 160 men eagerly awaiting the signal to proceed. Matt Eversmann sat waiting in Super Six Seven, a Black Hawk helicopter. He noticed that things were being done differently from the other setups, which had been false. This time they were packing more ammo and the commander had come out to see them off.
By August 1942 the 82nd Infantry division shifted to the 82nd Airborne division, becoming the first airborne division in the United States Army.... ... middle of paper ... ... Once mastering the skills of a paratrooper, they were then asked to go to war for the first time.
This military program was made to start fighting a group called The White Masks, however there is very little regarding The White Masks in the actual gameplay. The game is almost entirely multiplayer, and it gives very good single player tutorials on how you can play the game and get prepared for when you want to start playing against other people. These tutorials will give you a taste of the different kinds of Operators in the game. Operators are the different classes you can have in game. Each Operators has their set of guns and their own unique ability to make your team’s job of attacking or defending easier. There currently 9 Operators for the attacking team and 9 Operators for the defending
lkserved as Marines. From 375 to 420 of those trained as code talkers; the rest served in
(Kangas) Other notable successes came from elements like 5-62 ADA. They were the first air defense units to move into Iraq attached to Airborne unit troops and equipment. Their mission was to assist ground forces with the Stinger and Vulcan weapon systems under the protection of Patriot Batteries from the 11th BDE. (Kangas) In return for the protection, 5-62 ADA Stinger units would offer critical air coverage to Patriot due to its weakness and vulnerability to low flying aircraft.
Operation Anaconda was the first major joint combat operation against the war on terror that the US was committed to winning. This operation would test our military’s readiness for joint operations against a hardened and willing adversary. The primary mission was to kill/capture Taliban/Al Qaeda forces occupying towns and villages in the vicinity of Shahi Khot in order to gain control of the valley.1 The US needed the towns, villages, mountains, and more importantly, the intricate and hard to access caves cleared of enemy fighters. Units participating in the operation included elements of the 101st Airborne Division, 10th Mountain Division, Special Operations Forces (SOF), and Coalition forces from seven nations including Afghanistan.2 With so many different nations fighting along with our own branches of military, it would test our ability to conduct joint operations on multiple levels.
I have organized this paper into five distinct sections; mission, task organization, capabilities, limitations, and finally the conclusion. After the reading and comprehension of this paper, you should have gained a basic understanding of the Special Forces (SF) Chemical Reconnaissance Detachments (CRD). The following paper is mixed with Unclassified (UCI) and For Official Use Only (FOUO) information. FOUO is annotated at the beginning of all For Official Use Only information, the rest of the paper is UCI. If you wish to share this information paper with others, please at a minimum; confirm identity of the person prior to providing (FM 380-5, 2000). For further handling instructions please refer to FM 380-5, or contact me, I will gladly answer all questions.
Band of Brothers is a fascinating book that captures moments lived by soldiers during World War II. It specifically relates to the History of a small unit of paratroopers known as Easy Company, 506 Regiment, 101st Airborne. It is a story that follows the company from its inception to the capture of Hitler’s nest. It begins with the training of these soldiers at Camp Toccoa, Georgia. The 140 members of easy company who were young men from different social levels were physically and mentally trained. This particular company had an extremely harsh training, but many believe it is because of this training that they were considered as one of the best rifle companies in the army.
The Technical Escort Unit (TEU) now provides the Department of Defense and other federal agencies to include the Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation with an immediate response capability for chemical and biological warfare material. Its mission is to provide a global response for escorting, packaging, detection, rendering-safe, disposing, sampling, analytics, and remediation missions. This does not only include chemical weapons for which it was originally created, but now incorporates biological weapons, state sponsored laboratories, small independent laboratories and small non-weaponized radioactive materials. Most recently, they have been task organized to assist Brigade Combat Teams (BCT) as a force multiplier; the objective of this is to give the Battle Field Commander instant on the ground intelligence regarding Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) hazards within their Area of Operations (AO). With this new mission with the BCT, the TEU is becoming an expeditionary force.
The Northwest Regular Crew number six was the first to be on the scene, there objective was
This book substantially explains the vigorous training platoon 3086 went through in order to earn the title of being a Marine.
The men of Reserve Police Battalion 101 were just ordinary men, from a variety of backgrounds, education, and age. It would appear that they were not selected by any force other than random chance. Their backgrounds and upbringing, however, did little to prepare these men for the horrors they were to witness and participate in.
They were part of the rear guard covering the other elements retreating out of the Fort. It became apparent to Echo Company’s Officers what they were observing. If they got the aircraft up and running they’d be able to find the main body and formulate some sort of attack. Unfortunately, for Echo Company, 2nd Platoon’s actions would give their location away eventually to Colonel Magnus’s forces. However, they still had time to get out of dodge before they figured out the men they had just killed weren’t coming back anytime
There are many agencies that have the ability to perform Signals Intelligence, electronic reconnaissance and most of all signals intelligence from all available sources inducive to the environment. The United States Army uses the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) as its main entity for signals collection. The Joint STARS platform was designed to provide a highly effective, real-time, collection tool to the ground task force commanders during battlefield engagements, but for the past ten years, the sensor has been used for peacekeeping missions. Army analysts can predict the enemy’s behavior by identifying choke points, potential avenues of approach and operating patterns such as supply routes and logistical points. The analysis gives the ground commander a more complete view of the enemy’s weaknesses. The United States Air Force employs the Joint STARS in a different mission than the Army. The Air Force uses Joint STARS as a battlefield management tool versus a collection tool as used for by the Army. The Air Force uses the platform to provide immediate and direct support to the Air Component Commander and continue to observe the enemy’s movement from a far distance in the sky. Providing essential data to commanders such as size, direction, and speed of the adversaries, with minimum casualties while under battlefield conditions, makes the Joint STARS an extremely effective tool. The Air Force also employs the Predator vehicles, which are unmanned aerial vehicles that are used for reconnaissance.