author assigned to H&S, 49–51
in Baghdad, 236–83, 284
Baghdad drive, 101–85
Baghdad strike, 181, 188–235
Battalion Sniper Operation, 246–56
casualties, 286
a day off, 178–80
jump-off from Kuwait, 67–77, 79–81
Main headquarters, 84–85, 93, 135, 178, 192, 214, 233, 235–39, 246, 277–78, 281, 284
night driving without lights, 235–36
return to Kuwait, 283–88
training of, 41–43
transfer to Kuwait, 51, 56–66 2004
return to Iraq, 293
5th Marine, 91, 107, 113, 117, 120, 141, 149–50, 152, 163, 167, 181, 187–88
7th Marine, 41, 43, 163, 188
173rd Airborne, 80
REMFs, 287
Remington 700 receiver, 63
rifles
AKM automatic, 241
M16A4, 243
M40A1, 63, 86, 158
M82A1A Special Application Scoped Rifle (SASR), 1, 4–8
Marine doctrine on, 53
rocket, BM-21, 238
Roland missile, 92, 239
RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades), 115, 155, 160–61, 165, 171, 177, 206, 216, 226, 251
RPK light machine gun, 7, 86, 125, 170, 184
Rumaylah oil fields (Iraq), 82–83, 91
Rumsfield, Donald
Iraq strategy of, 111–12
restructuring by, 48–49
Russia, 73
woman sniper of, 32
Saddam Hussein, 53, 55, 65, 69, 136, 164
attempted smart bombing of, 76–77
Firdos Square statue of, 258, 262–67, 269
flag altered by, 239
troops’ feeling toward, 73
Safwan Hill (Iraq), 69, 77, 82
sandstorms, 107–9
San Francisco Chronicle, 114, 145, 260, 264, 286
SASR (Special Application Scoped Rifle M82A1A), 1, 4–8
scout/snipers. See snipers
Scout/Sniper School, 15–16, 62
“Seeing the elephant,” 205
Shatt al-Arab, 82
Shatt-al-Basra Canal, 96
Sheraton hotel (Baghdad), 255, 258, 271, 275–77
Shi’ites
gas attacks on, 83
post-invasion pilgrimages by, 286
Shinseki, Eric, 111–12
Sinbad the Sailor, 82
SMAW missile, 53
Smith, Ray, 131
smoke-checking, 25, 152, 178, 250
snipers
competitive shooters compared to, 32
deciding whom not to shoot, 123, 128–30, 137, 149
emotional reactions by, 10, 25, 147, 172–73, 179, 231–34, 236–37, 292–93
Iraqi, 202–3
in Iraq war, 85–88, 95–96, 115–19, 123–30, 136–39, 141–42, 152–60, 169–71, 183–85, 200–34, 239–44
Battalion Sniper Operation, 246–56
civilian-car shooting incident, 231–34
Sheraton Hotel outlook, 275–77
killing by, 25, 123, 291–92
laser check of range for, 86, 125, 128
logbooks of, 141, 170, 178, 232
McCoy and, 61, 110, 126, 136–37, 185, 197, 199, 214, 237–38, 246
mantra of, 202
manual on primary mission of, 21
Mobile Sniper Strike Team concept, 22–23, 27, 43, 48, 114, 121, 207, 291
in modern warfare, 21–22, 26–27, 291
observation log by, 272
protection needed by, 33
stealth by, 35, 138–39
in urban warfare, 123
AlBudavr, 135–39
Baghdad, 246–56, 270–77
Somalia, 1–10, 23, 30
war games, 30–39
women, 32
Somalia
author as sniper in, 1–10, 23, 30
ragtag militia in, 2
Rangers dragged through streets of, 244
starvation in, 2
Southern California Logistics Airport, 31
Soviet Union, woman sniper of, 32
Special Air Services (British), 264
Special Forces (Iraqi), 241
Special Forces (U.S.), 80
Steel Knight exercise, 37
Stumps, the, 41
suicide bombers, 192, 215, 228–30
of Abrams tank, 181, 225
Sunni Triangle, 269
SWAG (Scientific Wild-Ass Guess), 137
Taliban, 48
tank recovery vehicle, M88 Hercules, 264, 267
tanks
M1A1. See Abrams M1A1
tank
T-52, 5
T-55, 98–99, 187
T-62, 169, 187
Target Range Ripper, 61
Task Force Tarawa, 113, 115, 141, 164, 167, 175, 177
technicals, 8, 118
television interview in Baghdad, 273–75
thermal-detection gear, 95
thermite grenades, 177
Threat Condition Delta, 45
3/4 battalion, definition of, 41
“thunder runs,” 235, 258
Tigris River, 82, 104, 164, 167–68, 181
Diyala Bridge over, 194–95, 210–35
temporary bridges over, 235, 245
Tikrit (Iraq), 269
Tomahawk missile, 77, 93
TOW missile, 53, 94, 152
Tracy, Daniel, x, 75, 182–84, 201–4, 208, 211, 215, 285
Turkey, refusal to let U.S. troops enter Iraq from, 101
29 Palms (California), 17–18, 31, 41–42, 48, 75, 145
author’s return to, 289–90
240-Golf medium machine gun, 75
U.S. Navy, in Iraqi war, 73
Umm Qsar (Iraq), 101
Unertl telescope, 4, 63
United Nations, Iraqi WMDs and, 55–56
urban warfare, 26
percentage of casualties in, 33
snipers in, 123
AlBudayr, 135–39
Baghdad, 246–56, 270–77
Somalia, 1–10, 23, 30
war games, 30–39
as 360 degrees, 123
USFOR(U.S. Force), 29, 35–36
Uzbekistan, 49
Veterans of Foreign Wars, 55
Victorville (California), 31
Vietnam, 182
body count in, 157
snipers in, 23–24
West in, 131
war games, snipers in, 30–39
Washington Post, 263
weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)
Bush and the White House on, 55, 65
expected attack on U.S. troops by, 70–72
preemptive strike as needed because of, 190
rumors of finding, 190–91
United Nations and, 55–56
See also chemical weapons
West, F. J. “Bing,”131
Wetteraurer, Martin “Crawdad,” x
White, Thomas, 112
Winchester Model 70 trigger guard, 63
woman snipers, 32
World War I, gas attacks in, 72
World War II, snipers in, 23, 32
Ziegler, Brian, 29–30
ZSU-23/4 antiaircraft weapon (“Zeus”), 5–7
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