Quality of life and job satisfaction is an important element for a Night Stalker's success. As a Night Stalker you will have the opportunity to pursue your craft for many consecutive years. While the benefit is a long and rewarding career, this will also provide you with location stability and the opportunity to build and control your home and family life.

A life in special operations may provide your spouse with stability and the opportunity they need to pursue their education and career goals.

The location stability found in special operations aviation also provides a valuable opportunity for you to stabilize your child's education and development. This type of stability helps to promote successful academic, athletic, and social development.

Depending on your Soldier’s MOS and rank, your Family will likely have the opportunity to remain in the 160th for much longer than you are used to being assigned to other units or duty stations. As a result, your children will have stability in schools, grow up with friends they started school with and possibly graduate high school with those same friends. Night Stalker spouses also have great opportunities to start or further their own careers, attend school, or open their own businesses. Each of our duty locations is great for all of these opportunities.

Your Family can be based in one of three 160th locations in the United States:

- Fort Campbell, KY

- Hunter Army Airfield, GA

- Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA

On average, Night Stalkers are deployed the same amount of time as Soldiers in other units. The key difference is that Night Stalkers typically deploy in much shorter increments, while Soldiers in other units deploy for longer increments. Short deployments help to minimize separation anxiety and reintegration challenges for Family members. Since deployments are shorter, strong family bonds are maintained and sometimes strengthened.

Other than deployments, 160^th SOAR(Abn)Soldiers frequently conduct training away from home. The duration and frequencyof these trips will depend on your Soldiers MOS and duty position.

Depending on your spouse’s rank and military occupational specialty, your Family will likely be stationed far longer than a normal tour of duty.

As a result of duty station stability, many Night Stalker spouses have had the opportunity to start or further their own careers, attend school, or open their own businesses.

Military Families face many challenges, but the 160th community has the experience and resources to help manage and minimize those challenges. As a Night Stalker Family, you will be a part of a special operations community that is supported by an experienced Soldier and Family Readiness Group (SFRG), chaplain teams, and command teams.

Our unit SFRGs are inclusive and supportive of every Soldier, spouse, and family member regardless of rank, and are very active.

Our SFRGs are supported by a Family Programs Team staffed with five civilian Family Readiness Support Assistants (FRSA), one in each Battalion and one at Regiment. FRSAs are there to provide administrative and logistical support to Commanders and SFRG Volunteers. They are also available to Soldiers and Family members for unit, installation, and Army resource referral. Each FRSA is a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Army Family Programs and is dedicated to serving your Family.