The 160th Special Operations Aviations Regiment specializes in carrying out its life-and-death operations under the cover of darkness, hence their nickname: "Night Stalkers." They are renowned for being swift, sure, and particularly deadly with their accuracy in using state-of-the-art aircraft and equipment to assist special ops from the air. Their specialty is covert insertion, re-supply, and extraction of Special Ops teams. They also take part in armed escort, reconnaissance, surveillance, and electronic warfare in support of missions.
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Cybermodeler Online, April 2006
“This is a title I’ve been waiting for, and the wait was definitely worth it! If you’ve been looking for good photos of the AH-6/MH-6, MH-60/AH-60, or MH-47 from the inside-out, your wait is over. This book is highly recommended!”
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Fred J. Pushies has spent the last eighteen years in the company of each of the units assigned to United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM). He has skimmed across the waves with the SEALs in an eighty-two-foot-long Mark V Special Operations craft, flown at treetop level with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, and crunched through the brush with Force Recon Marines. His other Zenith Press titles include Night Stalkers: 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment; Special Ops: America’s Elite Forces in 21st Century Combat; 10th Mountain Division; 82nd Airborne; U.S. Air Force Special Ops; Marine Force Recon; and Weapons of the Navy Seals. Fred lives in Westland, Michigan.
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This book was awesome! It detailed what the Night Stalkers do. It is very personal to me because a good friend's son was a Night Stalker. He was killed recently in Iraq while on a special mission hunting for Zarqawi. He personally recomended this book and so do I.
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This review is from: Night Stalkers: 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) (Power) (Paperback)
This is a great reference book and well organized with chapters on history, mission, equipment, and, of course, the different aircraft. The author, Fred Pushies, does a great job of provide details (unclassified) about the unit and their missions that hadn't been published before. Typical of Special Ops, it looks like they spoofed him a little bit. For example, on page 43, the crewmember with the NVGs and oxygen mask is wearing an Air Force helmet, and the goggles look like they were put in backwards. A similar strange picture appears on page 14 with an AN/PVS-5C full faceplate and early ANVIS Objective lenses, which looks like they took NVG parts and tried to make it look like a Litton 909 that was used in the early 80s. A great tribute to the best warriors in the world.
NVG support and advisor to 160th since 1981,
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This review is from: Night Stalkers: 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) (Power) (Paperback)
I purchased this book in order to gain some knowledge about the 160th, since my son was recently accepted to SOAR. It provided quite a bit of information to me. I would recommend it to anyone who is interested about this elite group. I especially enjoyed the many pictures and the history of the 160th. I'm totally in awe!
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