by Ed Darack
M120 120mm Heavy Mortar
M16 Service Rifle
M198 155 Howitzer
M1A1 Abrams Tank
M2 .50 Caliber Machine Gun (“Ma Deuce”)
M203 40mm Grenade Launcher
M224 60mm Lightweight Mortar
M240 Light Machine gun
M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW)
M252 Medium Extended Range Mortar (81mm mortar)
M4
M40A3 Marine Corps Sniper Rifle
M58 Mine Clearing Line Charge (MICLIC)
M82A3 SASR
M9 9mm Pistol
MacDill Air Force Base
Machado, Karsten (Lance Corporal)
MacMannis, Andrew (Lieutenant Colonel)
Main Supply Route (MSR)
Maktab al-Khidmat al Mujahidin al Arab (MAK or “Afghan Services Bureau”)
Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF)
Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (at Twentynine Palms, CA)
Marine Corps Base Hawaii
Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MCMWTC / MWTC)
Marine Corps Planning Process (MCPP)
Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD - San Diego, CA / Perris Island SC)
Marine Corps Sitting Position
Marine Corps University
Marine Expeditionary Brigade (MEB)
Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF)
Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU)
Marxism
Matin
Mavericks, Operation
Mazar-e Sharif
McGreevy, Michael (Lieutenant)
McShane, John (Captain)
Meal, Ready to Eat (MRE)
Medical Capabilities Mission (MEDCAP)
Medium Value Target (MVT)
Mehtar Lam, Afghanistan
Mendiola, Albert (Lance Corporal)
Mercury (tainted water wells)
MH-47D Special Operations Aircraft (SOA) Chinook
MH-47E Special Operations Aircraft (SOA) Chinook
MI-8/17 “Hip” Helicopter
Middendorf, Ben (First Lieutenant)
Mig-17
Minot Air Base
MK11 Semiautomatic 7.62mm Sniper Rifle
MK19 40mm Automatic Grenade Launcher
MK82 “Dumb Bomb”
Mobile Assault Course
Mogadishu, Somalia (Attack of U.S. Special Operations Forces in 1993)
Mojave Desert
Molawi Ibrahim (alias of Ahmad Shah)
Molly (the Monkey)
Mongol Hordes
Monk, Justin (Lance Corporal)
Montague, Fort
Moonsoon
Morocco
Mortar Ballistic Computer
Mountain Leader Course
Mr. Peepers (the Monkey)
MTVR (“7-Ton”)
Muhummad ibn Abd al-Wahhab
Mujahideen
Mullah Mohammed Ismael (alias of Ahmad Shah)
Mullan, Robert
Muralles, Marcus (Sergeant First Class)
Murphy, Michael (Lieutenant)
Muslim Brotherhood
Najibullah, Mohammad
Najmudeen
Named Area of Interest (NAI)
Nangalam Girls’ School
Nangalam
Nangarhar Province
Narang (village),
Narang Valley
Nasir, Colonel (of the Afghan National Army)
Nassau, Battle of
National Football League
National Security Act of 1947,
Navajo Nation
Naval Infantry
Navy SEALs
Navy Special Operations Forces (NAVSOF)
Navy, Department of
Nawa Pass
Nawab
Nazis
Nepal
Nicaragua
Nicholas, Samuel (Captain)
Night Stalkers, see Brown, Task Force
Night Vision Goggles (NVGs)
Nine-Line Brief
911 Force
North Africa
Northern Alliance
Northwest Frontier Province (Pakistan)
Noshaq
Nunn-Cohen Amendment (to the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986)
Nuristan Province
Nuristan, Islamic Revolutionary State of (Dawlat-I Inqilabi-yi Islamiyi Nuristan)
O’Bannon, Presley (First Lieutenant)
Okra
Olson, Eric (Major General)
Oman
Omar, Mullah Mohammad
160th Special Operations Air Regiment (Airborne), see Brown, Task Force
Onions
Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)
Operational Detachment Alphas (ODAs)
Operational Detachment Bravos (ODBs)
Opium
Osama bin Laden
Other Coalition Forces (OCF)
Oxus River (Amu Darya River)
Padilla, Ernest (Lance Corporal)
Pahlavi, Shah Mohammed Reza
Pakistan
Paktia Province
Palawan
Panama
Panasonic Toughbook Laptop Computer
Panjpir (Pakistan)
Panjshir Provence
Parsua,
Parun, Afghanistan
Pashai
Pashto
Pashtun (name of an ACM target individual)
Pashtunistan
Pashtuns
Pashtunwalli
Patton, Eric (Petty Officer Second Class)
Pech River
Pech River Valley
Pech Road
Peggy Mullan’s Red Hot Beef Steak Club at Tun Tavern
Pen Flares
Pennington, Lavon (Lance Corporal)
People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA)
PEQ-2A Infrared Floodlight / IR Laser Pointer
Perna, Mark (Lance Corporal)
Persia
Personal Role Radio (PRR)
Peshawar (Pakistan)
Phase Line (definition of)
Phraselator
Pickel Meadow, California
Pigman, Jamie (Navy Hospital Corpsman Third Class)
PK Machine Gun
Plunk, Joshua (Corporal)
Ponder III, James (Master Sergeant)
Posselt, Rick (Second Lieutenant)
Potatoes
Powers, Francis Gary
PP87 82mm Mortar
PRC-117 Radio
PRC-119F Radio
PRC-148 Multi-Band Inter/Intra Tactical Radio (MBITR)
Priddy, Andrew “Drew” (Major)
Pro-Tec Helmet
Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs)
PSG-5
Puhakuloa Training Area of Hawaii’s Big Island
Punjab Province (Pakistan)
Purple Heart
PX (at Bagram Air Field)
Qalaygal
Qatar
Quetta (Pakistan)
Quick Reaction Force (QRF)
Rashman, Zach (Captain)
Ratkowiak, Casmer (“Pigeon”, “Venom-11”)
Rawalpindi, Treaty of,
Reagan, Ronald
Red Dawn, Operation (misreferencing of “Red Wings”)
Red Kafir (Red Infidel)
Red Wing, Operation (misreferencing of “Red Wings”)
Red Wings II, Operation (Rescue and Recovery Effort for Red Wings)
Red Wings, Detroit (hockey team)
Red Wings, Operation Designated Helicopter Landing Zones (HLZ “Shar Pei,” HLZ “Swift,” HLZ “Navajo,” HLZ “Blown”) on Sawtalo Sar
Designated Observation Posts on Sawtalo Sar
General Overview
Named Areas of Interest on Sawtalo Sar ,
Planning
Quick Reaction Force (QRF)
Red, Task Force
Redwing, Operation (misreferencing of “Red Wings”)
Refugee Crisis
Regional Command Ea
st (RC-East)
Reich, Stephen (Major)
RH-53D Sea Stallions
Rice
Rite in the Rain,
Rocket Assisted Projectile (RAP) Rounds
Rocket Ridge
Ronin (Scout/Sniper Team)
Roshan Cellular Phone
Roy, Joe (Corporal)
RPG-7 (Rocket Propelled Grenade)
Rub ‘al-Khali Desert (The Empty Quarter)
Rules of Engagement (ROEs)
Rumsfeld, Donald (Secretary of Defense)
Russell, Michael (Sergeant First Class)
Russia
SA-7 Shoulder Launched Antiaircraft Missile
Sabre, Task Force
Saddam Hussein
Safis
Sahara Desert
Salafi (School of Islam)
Salafiyya Movement
Salang Tunnel
Salar Ban
Sanskrit
Satellite Communications (SATCOM)
Saudi Arabia
Sawtalo Sar
North Ridge
Northeast Gulch
Northeast Spur
Summit
Sawtalo Sar
Scherkenbach, Chris (Chief Warrant Officer [4])
Scott, Robert (Major)
Scout/Sniper Platoon (of Headquarters and Services Company)
Scout/Sniper
SEAL Ambush Video (by Ahmad Shah, produced by As-Sahab Media)
SEAL Ambush Video (by Ahmad Shah, unreleased)
SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team (SDVT) [Definition]
SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team 1 (SDVT-1)
SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team 2 (SDVT-2)
SEAL Team
Second Battalion of the Third Marine Regiment (History)
Second Continental Congress
Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPR)
Secretary of Defense
Seiffert, Lance (First Lieutenant)
September 11, 2001 Terror Attacks
September 18, 2005 National Afghan Parliamentary Elections
Shah, Ahmad (Ahmad Shah Dara-I Nur / Ahmad Shah of the Valley of the Enlightened Ones)
Shah, Ahmad (photographs of)
Shamshatoo Refugee Camp
Shelton, Daniel (Corporal)
Shina
Shock (callsign), see AH-
Shura Meeting
Shuryek Valley
Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, California
Signals Intelligence (SIGINT)
Silver Star
Sindh Province (Pakistan)
Situational Awareness (SA)
Six-Line Brief
Skillful (call sign Referencing Task Force Sabre’s Transport UH- 60 Blackhawks and Crew)
Small Arms Fire (SAFIRE)
Small Arms Protective Insert (SAPI) Plate
Small Wars Manual
SMAW
Smith, Chris (Corporal)
SOCCENT
Soft Compromise
Sonoran Desert
Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)
Soviet Union (USSR)
Soviet-Afghan Treaty of Neutrality and Nonaggression
Soviet-Afghan War ,
Special Forces (distinction from Special Operations Forces)
Special Forces (Green Berets)
Special Operations Forces (SOF)
Special Operations Peculiar Modification (SOPMOD) M4 Carbine
Spetsnaz
Spinach
Spurs, Operation
Spurs, San Antonio (basketball team)
Star Wars (movie)
Stars, Dallas (professional hockey team)
Stars, Operation
Stinger Missile
Storm, Robert (Sergeant)
Strategic Depth (Foreign Policy Concept)
Strobe, Infrared
Suh, James (Petty Officer Second Class)
Suicide Car Bomb
Sultan (interpreter)
Sunni Islam
Super Highway (Main Trail on North Ridge of Sawtalo Sar)
Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD)
Suribachi, Mount
SVD (Dragunov Sniper Rifle)
Swabi District (Pakistan)
Sweeney, Jim (Captain)
TACAIR
Tactical Area of Responsibility Trinity (AO Trinity)
Tactical Training Exercise Control Group (TTECG)
Tajikistan
Taleban (village)
Taliban, The
Talibs (students)
Taraqi, Nur Muhammad
Taylor, Jeffrey (Petty Officer First Class)
Tehran, Iran
Thar Desert
The Rock (interpreter)
Third Battalion of the Sixth Marine Regiment (3/6)
Third Battalion of the Third Marine Regiment (3/3)
Thunderdome (movie)
Thuraya Satellite Phone
Time on Target (TOT)
Tirich Mir
Tora Boras
Torkham
Torres, Andres (Sergeant)
TOW Missile
Toyota Hilux
Tracer Rounds
Tracy, Matt (Captain)
Tripoli, To the Shores of (second line of the U.S. Marines’ Hymn)
T-Series Tanks
Tun Tavern, Philadelphia
Tunisia
Turkistan
Turkmenistan
Turner, Regan (Second Lieutenant)
Twenty-Fifth Infantry Division
Twenty-nine Palms, California (Marine Corps Base)
Type 63-2 107mm Rocket
U.S. Army Rangers
U.S. Army Rangers
U.S. Army’s Psychological Warfare Division
U.S. Navy’s Underwater Demolition Teams
U2 Spy Aircraft
UH-1N Iroquois “Huey”
UH- 60 Blackhawk
Unification (Army-U.S. Marine Corps)
Unified Combatant Commands, Definition of
United Arab Emirates
United Fruit Company
United States Marine Corps
General Overview
History
Modern Employment of / Tactics
United States Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC)
United States Military Academy at West Point
United States Naval Academy
United States Special Operations Command(USSOCOM)
Unity of Command (concept)
Unity of Effort (concept)
Urgent Fury, Operation
USS Nimitz
Uzbekistan
Valley of Death (nickname for the Chowkay Valley)
Vargas, Carlos (Sergeant)
Vector (rangefinder)
Videographers (for Ahmad Shah)
Vietnam War
Wafa, Governor (of Kunar Province)
Waigal Valley
Walker, Kevin (Staff Sergeant)
Watapor
Waters, Perry (Captain)
Westerfield, Scott (Captain)
Whalers, Hartford / New England (hockey team)
Whalers, Operation
General Overview
Planning
Wheat
Whiskey Company (Weapons Company Tasked as a Line Company/3)
Whiskey-1 (First Platoon, Whiskey Company /3)
Whiskey-2 (Second Platoon, Whiskey Company/3)
Whiskey-3 (Third Platoon, Whiskey Company/3)
White House
Whitlock, Jeremy (Captain)
Whiz Wheel
Wilson, Matt (Lance Corporal)
Window Rock
Wood, Tom (Major)
World War II
Wright, Camp (Asadabad / “A-Bad”)
Yemen
Yemenis
Zardari, Asif
Zia-ul-Haq (Pakistani President)
Archive.