Rage Company
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on Port-John graffiti
unmanned-aerial vehicles (UAVs)
Predator UAV
Wasp
Uprising (Julayba, March 11)
USS Dubuque
Uthman (brother of Mullah Qahttan)
VBIED factory
vehicle recovery mission and ambush
Vic Mackey
videogames
Vietnam War
Wag-Bags
Ware, Michael
Warlock Blue
War on Terror
“War Pigs,”
Wasp UAV
weapons. See specific weapons
weapons caches
1/6 taking credit for Rage’s discovery
on Euphrates River banks
ISI compound
Julayba
objective Bravo discovery
Operation Churubusco
Operation Hue City I,
Operation Hue City II,
Operation Squeeze Play goal
Weapons Company, 1/6
Williamson, Staff Sergeant Scott
Windmill Point. See Operation Windmill Point
Wissam (son of Hatim Hussain Ali Sa’id)
Zarqawi, Abu Musab al-
Zazu-Pope intersection
1
E. B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (New York: Random House, 1981), p. 3.
2
Jonathan Schroden, Measures for Security in a Counterinsurgency (Alexandria, VA: Center for Naval Analyses, 2008), p. 10.
3
See icasualties.org. In 2006, there were 356 fatalities in Al Anbar, and 822 overall, or 43 percent. In 2007, there were 163, and 904 overall, or 17 percent.
4
Schroden, Measures for Security in a Counterinsurgency, p. 12.
5
Ibid., p. 18.
6
“Scrooge” was a nickname for Moneybags, and “Huey” was a nickname for Propane. The family was nicknamed after the characters in Disney’s Duck Tales, as Louie and Dewey were Moneybags’s other two sons.
7
Non-req is short for not-recommended. It prevents a Marine from being promoted to the next rank/grade.
8
To protect Abu Ali’s identity, I have refrained from inserting his relationship to Kasim.
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Foreword
Acknowledgements
PART ONE - 1st Battalion, 37th Armor
Chapter 1 - BECOMING A BANDIT: THE BAPTISM
November 27, 2006
Chapter 2 - DETAINEE WATCH
November 28, 2006
Chapter 3 - FORTRESS RAMADI
December 1, 2006
December 3, 2006
Chapter 4 - MASTER OF PUPPETS
December 7, 2006
PART TWO - 1st Battalion, 6th Marines
Chapter 5 - ENTERING QATANA
December 16, 2006
Chapter 6 - DEMONS OF HURRICANE POINT
December 19, 2006
Chapter 7 - THE BATTLE OF CHRISTMAS DAY
December 21, 2006
Chapter 8 - A DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY
December 29, 2006
January 9, 2007
PART THREE - 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry
Chapter 9 - SILENCE THE DOGS
January 12, 2007
January 13, 2007
2000, January 16, 2007
0100, January 17, 2007
0600, January 17, 2007
1300, January 17, 2007
January 25, 2007
Chapter 10 - THE SCOUTS
January 25, 2007
Chapter 11 - RUNNING OUT OF LUCK
0700, January 27, 2007
2300, January 27, 2007
0700, February 1, 2007
0200, February 2, 2007
Chapter 12 - DEADLY GAMES
February 5, 2007
February 8, 2007
February 17, 2007
Chapter 13 - BY WAY OF DECEPTION
February 20, 2007
February 24, 2007
February 28, 2007
Chapter 14 - A DOG’S DYING BITE
1130, March 11, 2007
1200, March 14, 2007
March 16, 2007
March 25, 2007
March 30, 2007
Chapter 15 - OPERATION SQUEEZE PLAY: A SUMMARY
Part 1: The Situation
Part 2: Changing the Tide of the War
PHOTO INSERT
Index