Magiver
October 16, 2018, 12:29am
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Dalvion104a:
Is it true that the virginia boys origination can be traced back to the implication of the wright brothers airplane for military use? Is it true that they break your leg while torturing you and you must complete the final stages of training with a broken leg evan tho it’s an aviation unit tasked to support secret squirrel folks, and maintain the aircrafts? Is it true they use civilian aircraft and dress in normal cloths? I allso heard selection begins in basic training then threw your mos training and then your approached shortly after you report to your first duty station. the world may never know I suppose.
this reads like something a computer program would generate. Is this a school project?
Loach
October 16, 2018, 1:10am
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Lamoral:
You’re talking about the 160th SOAR (Special Operations Aviation Regiment), also known as the Night Stalkers, based out of Ft. Campbell.
I know a man who was an Army helicopter pilot and was part of this regiment for a long time, flying OH-6 and AH-6 and Chinooks. (He also flew an AH-1 Cobra in Vietnam, but that was before the 160th SOAR existed; it was established in the 80s.) He retired as a Major and then went to work for Boeing, which manufactures the Chinook.
From him I learned a little bit about the history of the 160th. It is sort of an air taxi service for light infantry units of special forces, such as Army Delta Force and Navy SEALs. It coordinates with these teams for combat missions, and was involved in a number of infamous incidents such as Operation Red Wings (of “Lone Survivor” fame) and the Battle of Mogadishu, depicted in “Black Hawk Down.” The pilot I know was not involved in either of those, although he is a friend of Michael Durant, the pilot who crashed in Mogadishu and was taken prisoner.
The existence of the 160th and its members is not a secret, and I’m not sure what connection it has to the thing you’re talking about in your OP…I just thought I’d bring this up since it’s not often that I get a chance actually use the small amount of knowledge that I have of it for something.
My boss on one of my active duty stints was a Blackhawk pilot in Mogadishu with the 160th. He wouldn’t talk about it much even when we got him drunk.
The OP is kind of rambling.
The 160th SOAR fly missions for special forces units and are supposedly the best pilots out there. They aren’t a secret unit.
I’ve heard of the Virginia boys, I first heard of them about 15 years ago. I’m not sure if they are real, or if they exist what they do. If they do exist my impression is they possibly either the special activities division in the CIA, or they are the Intelligence Support Activity in the US army. The guy who told me about them implied they were an intelligence gathering unit that went deep undercover and had a lot of interesting equipment. If so, that sounds more like the ISA than SAD.
Hey man,
I guess it’s a shame for Osama Bin Laden that he turned off his TV around zero dark fifteen.
Yllaria
October 24, 2018, 12:28am
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The Virginia Boys get mentioned several times in The Rivers of London book series. But in that series, they’re wizards.
The ‘we’ve been watching you for awhile and now we know you’re special/different’ sounds like YA fantasy stuff.
“You’re a wizard, Harry.”
You ever heard of the Seattle Seven?:rolleyes: