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Shooter

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by Jack Coughlin


  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

  Jack Coughlin

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