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Victory Point

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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.


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