One official in Kingsville believes the exercise in his town, said to be top secret, was really to practice weapons confiscation. That man is the emer- gency management coordinator, Tomas Sanchez. He is a highly decorated Navy veteran, wounded in Vietnam and retired after 30 years of service. He now continues to serve as the head of the military police unit of the Texas State Guard. The Night Stalkers got their name from their ability to fly at night.
Accidents do happen however.
With the night vision systems we would also test a lot of new equipment. The problems we would have would be midair collisions. Things of that sort. You know, night vision really isn't very good. One of the eight helicopters used in Kingsville avoided a disaster when it hit the top of a telephone pole at high speed coming into the city.