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Night Stalkers: 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) (Power)

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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.

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,

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!

I can speak of this book as the spouse of one of the team. I was shocked to see so much published about this topic and wish it weren't, but it was a knowledgeable book.

Bought this book for my husband since he was in the 160th Task force aka Night Stalkers when it began and he was disappointed with the inaccuracies from the beginning of the book.
The book arrived with the package torn and the book looked used.
I would not buy a Fred Pushies book since he was not providing all the facts.He must write on here say?