As the enormous tide of blog posts and Twitter tweets about the end of Osama Bin Laden, and the search for content under "Osama Bin Laden Is Dead" continues at a "volcanic" level according to Google Trends, an email came in from an old friend who was a US Army Captain.
It reads that the operation to get Bin Laden was...
It reads that the operation to get Bin Laden was...
..carried out by combined force of Navy Seals from Seal team 7 & US Army SOC (Special Operations Command) Joint Force including Squadron from 1st Special Forces Detachment (Delta Force) US Army 160th SOAR (Special Operations Aviation Regiment- My old Unit-Lost one Aircraft and Crew...) and USAF Special Operations Wing (combat observation and Support).....Stay tuned.
In the days ahead it will come out that the seal team were the ground observers, the Delta team was the reaction force, the SOAR moved Delta into position for the Mission and Flew Close Combat Air support, and the AF ran the Predator Drones and flew the AC-130 combat support Plane....It's a Mission operation template that has worked(with only one exception - Somalia) since 1983.....
the 4 Helos: 2 CH-47 Heavy Lifters and 2 MH-60 Blackhawks......the 47's moved the troops and the 60's provide fire support(I flew the 60's...)
My Old Unit-The 160th SOAR(SPECIAL OPERATIONS AVIATION REGIMENT)
Motto: Night Stalkers Don't Quit(NSDQ)
HQ Base Ft. Campbell Ky
Officially formed: 10/16/1981
