intelligence, rehearsals, integration, and Command and Control proved catastrophic. The failures in intelligence caused an increase in the required personnel and aircraft. Although branch specific rehearsals were conducted well above standard, there was little to no joint training that occurred. Moreover, there was no clear chain of command. A participant who remains unnamed, but was involved in this operation is credited with the following remarks, “Even when the best opinions are put together, the page
...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
aircraft manufacturers have either modified existing aircraft to fly unmanned or started from scratch to build unique solutions to a specific mission. In 2006 Boeing Aircraft Corporation flew their Unmanned Little Bird (ULB) on its first fully autonomous flight. The ULB is a modified A/MH-6 Little Bird, the workhorse used by US Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. It took off, hovered and flew a preprogrammed 20 min route segment simulating a reconnaissance mission, then returned and landed
On September 16th of 2007, shortly after noon, in a place called Nisour Square located in the Mansour District in the Iraq capital of Baghdad, a heavily armed Blackwater Personnel Security Detail convoy consisting of four armored vehicles mounted with 7.62-millimeter machine guns made its way through the square as Iraqi traffic officers tried to control the busy traffic (Zagorin, Bennet, 2007) . Between the convoy getting special traffic rules to prevent attacks and the square being a heavy traffic