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by Rob Maylor


  PTI

  physical training instructors

  Q

  quarter-master

  QRF

  quick reaction force

  RPG

  rocket-propelled grenade

  RPs

  restriction of privileges

  RSM

  regimental sergeant major

  RUC

  Royal Ulster Constabulary

  RV

  rendezvous

  SAS

  Special Air Service

  SASR

  Special Air Service Regiment

  SF

  sustained fire

  SNCO

  senior noncommissioned officer

  SOP

  standard operating procedure

  SRO

  special recovery operations

  SSM

  squadron sergeant major

  STG

  Special Tactics Group

  TCL

  tactical coordination line

  TGT

  target

  TI

  thermal imagers

  TNI

  Indonesian Army (Tentara Nasional Indonesia)

  TOW

  tube-launched, optically tracked, wire command, data link, guided missile

  UFF

  Ulster Freedom Fighters

  Me with an average Bathurst goat.

  Waiting for a night extraction by Black Hawk in East Timor.

  Airborne rappelling from a Black Hawk during a training day, Maliana, East Timor.

  The end of a patrol in East Timor–this was a patrol where we used a tracker dog.

  Tying off to a tree during a live fire field exercise.

  In the Afghan mountains–looking north from an elevated Observation Post from behind a .338 sniper rifle.

  On a 6×6 Polaris ATV in Afghanistan.

  Destroying ordnance from a severely damaged long-range patrol vehicle after being hit by an IED.

  An American AME Black Hawk coming in to pick up Sean McCarthy.

  Providing security while the specialist engineers cleared a suspect area of the track.

  Looking down over IED alley. It was at the top of this feature that we found three decapitated locals from Saraw.

  Riding through the villages just outside of TK. Dave O’Neil is on my left.

  Typical Oruzgãn terrain. The vegetation and high mud brick walled compounds provide excellent cover for the Taliban, and high and inaccessible mountain ranges give them perfect observation conditions.

  An Australian Forward Operating Base named after Lockie.

  A 5AVN Chinook landed for extraction after a night patrol.

  Leaving from a tight valley after successful patrol and–one Taliban KIA.

  1 Load: Safety catch is checked it is on SAFE and then a magazine is

  placed into the weapon.

  Action: Safety catch is rechecked and the cocking handle is pulled

  back then released. The bolt will guide a round into the chamber

  and lock it in place. Sights are checked or adjusted.

  Instant: Safety catch is switched from SAFE to FIRE.

  SNIPER ELITE. Copyright © 2010 by Rob Maylor with Robert Macklin. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

  www.stmartins.com

  ISBN: 978-1-4668-0030-4

  Originally published in Australia and New Zealand under the title SAS Sniper by Hachette Australia, an imprint of Hachette Australia Pty Limited

 

 

 


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