Clay tells us some hilarious stories about times that he got his ass chewed by his boss, funny pranks that 160th pilots would play on Rangers, General Brown, invasion of Panama and Noriega, and much more.
THANK YOU! Loved this story 51:05 about my friend Donovan and how the minigun was shooting the front of the Blackhawk due to the bolt backing out of the limiter bar. After all these years, still awesome hearing stories of my fallen friend. Not Forgotten - Chief Warrant Officer Three, Donovan L. "Bull" Briley, U.S. Army Night Stalkers, who was Killed In Action, October 3, 1993, during the Battle of Mogadishu.
I lived across the street from the 617th at 536th Engineers. I remember with awe and brotherly affection, all the birds flying through Howard to go get Escobar. What a great unit👍🏻🥂 Thank you Sir for fostering such great character in your command🫡
160th recruiter came to Ft Carson and holy cow it sounded high-speed, low-drag. So I'm getting pretty excited about this opportunity and then he says, "We do all our ops at night and we're deployed pretty much year round." I could not see how I was going to be high-speed, work at night, never be home and still get laid, so I passed. Probably a huge mistake. So much respect for 160th - truly the best of the best in Army Aviation. o7
Friend of mine got the “poggy bird” Ranger mission. Said he never spent so much at McDonalds before, but those dudes sure liked room temp Big Macs. Great episode!
Well, many countries are starting to get units like the 160th, but it feels like the 160th is sort of in the legendary "founders chair" of that type of unit, the same way the SAS is for SMUs. My country of Sweden has one 160th type of unit, but they were formed in 2011.
it seemed like somebody didn’t like certain things being discussed...kinda weird that stream cut out when they discussed details about unique abilities and the type of stuff they are capable of doing
The Marines insisted on being involved with a predictable result. Charlie Beckwith should have pulled the plug on the whole mission before it ever started. There was so many ways for this mission to fail...we may have lucked out with the kias we suffered? Good leadership means you need to speak truth to the powers that be. Sometimes that means saying fuck no.
You do not know what you are talking about. There is a reason Marine Aviation wanted to be involved and it wasn't so they could circle-jerk in the desert. The Marines aren't some incompetent group of pilots or anything. The issue here was intrinsic to *that* time in terms of how joint operations (specifically the lack of them and the overall lack of joint integration back then) worked counter productively to the goal at hand. What they needed was more time to perform joint ops and get integrated with the (then) TADIL networks and other encrypted comm requirements.
These are great podcasts but the viewership is struggling because the interviews take way too muxh time on background information. Reduce that aspect of the interviews (without short-changing the guest' life stories) and talk more about the actual combat xontent-the 'war stories' are what people want to hear!
Well sweden have an equivalent to 160th SOAR, which is the special helicopter group (next year special helicopter squadron) that utilizes UH-60 and Augusta A109 and recruits from the other three helicopter squadrons in the swedish airforce. Special helicopter group (SHG) is a SOF unit that supports the swedish special forces, SOG, with transport and recon missions. So to say that no other country have an equivalent is quit wrong.
The requirements for joining the 160th is insanely competitive. The number of flight hours under nods is more than some pilots have during the day. 160th has honed their capabilities in combat since its inception.
@@Officially_Unofficial1 if you put it in that way, I can agree on reputation. Swedish SHG are extremly capable and are specially trained such as 160th and have perform real work on deployment/s in example afghanistan, and soon in Taskforce Takuba. 160th have probaly more training capacity and and for sure much more experience then any similar unit in the whole world
It’s not an equivalent. 1) SOAR isnt the Air Force. It’s an Army Unit. 2) it’s not “just” a SOF unit, it’s a TIER 1 unit. There’s a difference. 3) they have been running missions non stop, at the highest op tempo of any other country for almost the last 20 years. Training can’t replicate the experience that unit has. He’s not saying other countries don’t have highly capable or SOF aviation units. These guys are a TIER 1 ARMY aviation unit. The Air Force typically ain’t dropping frags out the window and using their M4s out of Little Birds lol. It’s pretty crazy how much experience are in those units.
Clay tells us some hilarious stories about times that he got his ass chewed by his boss, funny pranks that 160th pilots would play on Rangers, General Brown, invasion of Panama and Noriega, and much more.
THANK YOU! Loved this story 51:05 about my friend Donovan and how the minigun was shooting the front of the Blackhawk due to the bolt backing out of the limiter bar. After all these years, still awesome hearing stories of my fallen friend. Not Forgotten - Chief Warrant Officer Three, Donovan L. "Bull" Briley, U.S. Army Night Stalkers, who was Killed In Action, October 3, 1993, during the Battle of Mogadishu.
I lived across the street from the 617th at 536th Engineers. I remember with awe and brotherly affection, all the birds flying through Howard to go get Escobar. What a great unit👍🏻🥂 Thank you Sir for fostering such great character in your command🫡
160th recruiter came to Ft Carson and holy cow it sounded high-speed, low-drag. So I'm getting pretty excited about this opportunity and then he says, "We do all our ops at night and we're deployed pretty much year round." I could not see how I was going to be high-speed, work at night, never be home and still get laid, so I passed. Probably a huge mistake. So much respect for 160th - truly the best of the best in Army Aviation. o7
One of the best you have done
Never heard of this channel, but great interview! Commenting for the algorithm
Thank you!!
Great interview. I have nothing but the highest respect for the organization. I’ve lost a few friends and made lifelong one’s from the 160th(A)
Thank you Jack and Dave. Outstanding interview with an outstanding soldier. God bless you Clay and your family. From a former OCS classmate of yours.
Love the interview I have a friend that I went to his retirement as a Night Stlker.
HE JUST SAID THAT HISTORY IS IMPORTANT. HEAR THAT ? HE SAID IT !!!
Friend of mine got the “poggy bird” Ranger mission. Said he never spent so much at McDonalds before, but those dudes sure liked room temp Big Macs. Great episode!
It would be cool if you guys brought in 1st SOW pilots for a chat. Combat Talon/Shadow or Gunship guys.
Awesome listen 👍
Ft. Rucker representing ⚔️
Crazy this doesn’t have more views.
Great guest.
Great interview. Thank you. 🔥🔥
Thanks for another great episode, guys! Btw, I saw that you were drinking Laphroaig........a darn good Scottish single-malt!
gotta love the leapfrog. it's good stuff.
Respect👊🏻
The Brits have had a Special RAF unit for designated SOF operators since 1970’s ( however nobody needs to know or discuss it ! )
Outstanding episode :-)!
Outstanding Guest once again...
Another badass episode! Y'all need to get former green beret Joe Kent!!!!!
90-94 NightStalker
#NSDQ
Wow! Super-Impressive!
Well, many countries are starting to get units like the 160th, but it feels like the 160th is sort of in the legendary "founders chair" of that type of unit, the same way the SAS is for SMUs. My country of Sweden has one 160th type of unit, but they were formed in 2011.
it seemed like somebody didn’t like certain things being discussed...kinda weird that stream cut out when they discussed details about unique abilities and the type of stuff they are capable of doing
Get it on!
👍
Does the 160th have Apaches?
No.
The Marines insisted on being involved with a predictable result. Charlie Beckwith should have pulled the plug on the whole mission before it ever started. There was so many ways for this mission to fail...we may have lucked out with the kias we suffered? Good leadership means you need to speak truth to the powers that be. Sometimes that means saying fuck no.
You do not know what you are talking about. There is a reason Marine Aviation wanted to be involved and it wasn't so they could circle-jerk in the desert. The Marines aren't some incompetent group of pilots or anything. The issue here was intrinsic to *that* time in terms of how joint operations (specifically the lack of them and the overall lack of joint integration back then) worked counter productively to the goal at hand. What they needed was more time to perform joint ops and get integrated with the (then) TADIL networks and other encrypted comm requirements.
@@karlchilders5420 well said.
These are great podcasts but the viewership is struggling because the interviews take way too muxh time on background information. Reduce that aspect of the interviews (without short-changing the guest' life stories) and talk more about the actual combat xontent-the 'war stories' are what people want to hear!
B/S look up Malaya in the 50’s helicopter S/F insertion into jungle !!!
That's a good Scotch.... Smokey...
Well sweden have an
equivalent to 160th SOAR, which is the special helicopter group (next year special helicopter squadron) that utilizes UH-60 and Augusta A109 and recruits from the other three helicopter squadrons in the swedish airforce. Special helicopter group (SHG) is a SOF unit that supports the swedish special forces, SOG, with transport and recon missions. So to say that no other country have an equivalent is quit wrong.
Equivalent as in capability and reputation not just slapping the “special ops” on an aviation unit
The requirements for joining the 160th is insanely competitive. The number of flight hours under nods is more than some pilots have during the day. 160th has honed their capabilities in combat since its inception.
@@Officially_Unofficial1 if you put it in that way, I can agree on reputation. Swedish SHG are extremly capable and are specially trained such as 160th and have perform real work on deployment/s in example afghanistan, and soon in Taskforce Takuba. 160th have probaly more training capacity and and for sure much more experience then any similar unit in the whole world
It’s not an equivalent. 1) SOAR isnt the Air Force. It’s an Army Unit. 2) it’s not “just” a SOF unit, it’s a TIER 1 unit. There’s a difference. 3) they have been running missions non stop, at the highest op tempo of any other country for almost the last 20 years. Training can’t replicate the experience that unit has. He’s not saying other countries don’t have highly capable or SOF aviation units. These guys are a TIER 1 ARMY aviation unit. The Air Force typically ain’t dropping frags out the window and using their M4s out of Little Birds lol. It’s pretty crazy how much experience are in those units.
@@lilmarine What is it now? I remember seeing the requirements were like 500 hours