Time stamp 10.00
Could that be a 10 marker?
How a Night Stalker pilot survived being shot down in Iraq and teamed up with Delta Force to go after the shooter
Thu, December 16, 2021,5:50 AM
By 2004, US troops in Iraq knew that the success of their invasion and defeat of Saddam Hussein's forces the year prior would be short-lived.
The disbanding of the Iraqi Army, Iran's regional aspirations, and the influx of foreign fighters made Iraq a ticking bomb. It didn't take long for a sectarian civil war to break out, and in the middle of it were US and Coalition troops.
A central part of the US-led counterinsurgency was a brutal counterterrorism campaign led by the US's elite Joint Special Operations Command. Army Delta Force commandos, Rangers, and other special-operations units would hit target after target every night in an attempt to dismantle the terrorist networks.
For the vast majority of their operations, they relied on an elite aviation unit.
The 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, also known as the "Night Stalkers," is the world's premier rotary-winged special-operations unit.
The Night Stalkers were formed in the early 1980s, after the failed attempt to rescue American hostages in Iran led to reforms of US special-operations forces. Since then, they have participated in almost every US military operation.
With a motto of "Night Stalkers Don't Quit" and commitment to deliver their cargo anywhere in the world within a 30-second window, the unit introduced itself to the general public during the "Black Hawk Down" battle in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993.
The 160th flies three main kinds of helicopters.
The AH-6 Little Bird gunship conducts attack missions, and its counterpart, the MH-6, does transport and assault operations. The MH-60 Black Hawk does transport or assault operations and a gunship version, the MH-60 Direct action penetrator, conducts attack missions. The MH-47 Chinook conducts transport and assault operations.
Little Bird down!
In March 2004, Chief Warrant Officer 4 Greg Coker and another Night Stalker were flying an AH-6 to support special-operations troops in Amiriyah, a suburb of Baghdad.
"We were conducting a daytime mission, the first one since the Battle of the Black Sea in Somalia, I believe," Coker told Insider, referring to the battle in Mogadishu.
A daylight mission was highly unusual, as Night Stalkers prefer to operate in the dark. As they were flying at a low level, an insurgent fired a shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missile, striking the Little Bird and bringing it down.
In the eight seconds it took for the Night Stalker pilots to hit the ground, Coker and his copilot performed an autorotation maneuver, which uses air flowing up through the main rotor to keep that rotor turning, allowing them to crash-land the burning chopper.
Upon impact, the AH-6 rolled end over end before coming to a halt. Fuel was leaking everywhere, and ammunition was going off, creating a recipe for disaster.
Not many pilots who crash in combat survive to tell the tale. For Coker, who spent 30 years in uniform and completed 11 combat tours, the moments after getting hit were the worst.
That was "a moment of defeat. Scary as hell. Sheer terror," Coker told Insider.
"An old gun [gunship helicopter] pilot told me many years ago that 'a superior gun pilot is one that uses his superior knowledge that will keep him out of situations where he will have to use his superior skill.' Your training takes over and you go to work, focusing on the things that you can control," said Coker, author of "Death Waits in the Dark."
US forces in Iraq were aware insurgents had shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles and of the danger posed by those weapons, known as man-portable air-defense systems, or MANPADS.
That concern lurked around many military operations, and some civilian aviation activity, after a US covert-action program in the late 1980s armed Mujahideen in Afghanistan with FIM-92 Stingers to shoot down Soviet aircraft.
"There had been several helicopters shot down with a MANPAD in the area known as the Devil's Triangle — or at least that is what I called it. This triangle was Fallujah to Ramadi to Amiriyah," Coker said, adding that no one in the other crashed helicopters had survived.
The standard operating procedure when an aircraft goes down is to try to rescue the pilots. Quick-reaction forces composed of units in the region and a combat-search-and-rescue element in the theater — usually Air Force Pararescuemen and other Air Commandos — would normally respond to a crash.
A reconnaissance element of Delta Force's B Squadron had quickly arrived on the scene, and in true Hollywood fashion, the dazed Night Stalkers joined them in a raid on the house from where the missile had been launched.
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Guess people are waking up. No more Expensive Spy Bike, purchased on whim by TV Brainwashing.
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'Sex and the City' Reboot Is Not the Only Problem for Peloton
The biggest problem for Peloton’s cameo in the reboot of “Sex and the City” may not be the moment when Mr. Big drops dead of a heart attack after a 45-minute ride, a plot twist so startling and damaging to the brand that Peloton’s stock plummeted 11% overnight after the pilot episode premiered.
Rather, it is the scene in Episode 2 of “And Just Like That,” when Carrie is at home getting ready for Big’s funeral. The Peloton bike sits awkwardly in the passageway between the primary bathroom and dressing area, unused and already collecting dust.
The pandemic status symbol, which customers once waited two months to get their hands on, may soon become the modern equivalent of the 1990s NordicTrack: a high-priced piece of exercise equipment that becomes a glorified clothing rack, cluttering up a home until it is sold or dispatched to the curb.
Signs of its cultural downfall are hard to ignore. Sales of Peloton’s stationary bikes and treadmills fell 17% year over year in the third quarter of 2021, and the online resale market is flooded with used bikes selling at a discount.
Peloton’s appearance as an ill-fated plot device certainly doesn’t help. This past weekend, one seller posted an Instagram story showing his bike being carted off with the good-riddance caption, “And Just Like That …”
Like thousands of professionals during the early days of the pandemic, Laura and Charlie Weisman, a couple who live in New York, bought a Peloton when their gym, Chelsea Piers Fitness, closed during the lockdowns.
“We needed an outlet to work out,” said Laura Weisman, 31, a new business executive at a digital marketing agency. She paid $1,895 for the original model, plus $250 for the accessories package (shoes, weights, earbuds, heart rate monitor) and $39 for monthly access to online classes. She recalled a conversation with her father, who told her the bike would gather dust a year from now. “I said, ‘No way, this is the coolest thing. It will last forever.’ ”
But sure enough, “as soon as we were vaccinated” and the gyms reopened, she said, the couple stopped using their Peloton. “It doesn’t feel like it’s necessary anymore,” Weisman added.
Two weeks ago, the Weismans posted it on Facebook Marketplace, initially asking $1,350 for the bike, plus the Peloton-branded accessories. When no one bit, they lowered the price to $1,200; it sold last weekend to a woman who bought it for her teenage daughter.
While a quick sale may suggest that Pelotons are holding their value, it is worth noting that many were bought at the height of the pandemic, before the company slashed its prices. The base model, which originally retailed for $2,295, now sells for $1,495. (The Bike+, which was introduced in 2020 and has a screen that swivels and can be used for yoga and strength training, sells for $2,495.)
Now, those base models are being resold on sites like Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace and eBay, with some selling below $1,000, according to recent searches.
“We recently downsized our apartment and the Peloton no longer fits,” reads one typical ad on Craigslist in New York. The seller is asking $800 for a Peloton bike and two pairs of cycling shoes. “Has probably been ridden 10 times.”
Kisha Anderer, 42, a stay-at-home mother in New York, hopes to get $1,500 or $1,600 for her Peloton bike but admitted, “I wish I would have sold it over the pandemic,” when the bikes were as hard to find as toilet paper.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/sex-city-reboot-not-only-131319933.html
Ah yes, the Election Fuckery of Past will haunt Mr Scrooge Raffensperger
You forgot about Pelosi and Shoomer
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>That just pisses me off. Seriously. I KNOW Biden and his buddies are bad for the country, that's why I voted for TRUMP.
Exactly
Tired of the Echo Chamber, when THEY allowed this bullshit in the first place, because Secret Hearings and shit take time, so basically, we're being held hostage by a CORRUPT SYSTEM, who thinks "We can't handle" knowing things, because the normies, who ALLOWED this to habben – because they refused to LOOK past Fake News, and Couldn't handle being called 'CRAZY' cause their tiny little egos would crack, need to be gently woken from their slumber, so they don't freak the fuck out.
But, please donate to stop the XXX cause, cause, they need moar time.
"Democracy". The ILLUSION of Choice
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