Shooter

rank insignia not worn in combat by, 3

Scout/Sniper School, 15-16

at 29 Nine Palms, 41-42, 289

Marine Corps Shooting Team, 32

Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, 29-30, 131

Marine Expeditionary Force in Afghanistan, 49

Mark 19 grenade launcher, 61, 75, 120

Marsh, Jerry, x, 76, 105, 120, 184, 215, 263-64

Mattis, James N., 217

Mawhinney, Chuck, 23, 24

Meeks, Eric, 171

MILES gear, 34, 37

Military Operations in Urbanized Terrain (MOUT), 29, 246

missiles

AT4, 53, 92

Hellfire, 88, 115

Javelin, 53, 215

M9, 53

M240G, 53

Patriot, 70

Roland, 92, 239

SMAW, 53

Tomahawk, 77, 93

TOW, 53, 94, 152

Mk-82 bombs, 188

Mobile Sniper Strike Team concept, 22-23, 27, 43, 48, 114, 121, 207, 291

Mogadishu (Somalia)

author as sniper in, 1-10, 23, 30

Rangers dragged through streets of, 244

Mojave Desert, 31

mom-and-pop stores, Iraqi, 193

money given to U.S. troops to spend, 193

MOPP (Mission Oriented Protective Posture) suit, 70-71, 150, 166-67, 180, 196, 202, 206, 210, 216, 218

Moreno, Dino, 114, 155-57, 172, 221-22, 226, 227, 231, 249

Mountain Leaders Course, 51, 54

Mount Suribachi (Iwo Jima), 266

MOUT (Military Operations in Urbanized Terrain), 29, 246

MREs (Meals Ready to Eat), 98, 142, 160, 244, 272, 285

“Muppets, The,” 131

Najaf (Iraq), 101, 163

Navy Achievement Medal, 287

Navy Commendation Medal, 10, 287

Newbern, Clint, x, 75-76, 120, 201, 203, 211, 215

news reporters (“Jackals”), 191, 214, 220, 258, 263

in Baghdad hotels, 245-46, 255, 259, 270, 272-75

broadcast nest, 272-73

Marines’ calls home on phones of, 179

shooting-of-civilians incident reported by, 234

See also Dagnino, Enrico; Koopman, John

New York Times, 191, 279

night vision goggles, 4-5, 236

night warfare, 95

9/11, 42, 44-45, 48, 65

North Korea, in “axis of evil,” 49

North Little Rock (Arkansas), 30

nuclear weapons, 71. See also weapons of mass destruction

observation log, 272

Officer Bob,” 56, 64, 84-85, 94-95, 115-16, 140, 155, 168-71, 177-78, 185, 195-97, 200, 214, 217, 237-38, 248

award to and promotion of, 287-88

Okinawa, 42-43, 45-46

Omar (caliph), 82

OPFOR (Opposition Force), 29

Pachmayr recoil pad, 63

Palestine Hotel (Baghdad), 255, 259-60, 270-75

Panda Bear. See Fuentes, Orlando

Parris Island (South Carolina), 14-15

Patriot missile, 70

Pavlichenko, Lyudmila, 32, 36

pigeons for chemical detection, 71-72, 166, 285

Poultry Chemical Contamination Detectors, 71-72, 166, 285

Powell, Colin, 56, 111, 263

preemptive strike on Iraq, reason for, 190

prisoners, Iraqi, 87, 92, 157-60

4th Marines’ treatment of, 189

intelligence officer captured, 190

torture of, 189-90

ProMet (Project Metropolis), 29-39, 246

Psy Ops (Intelligence and Psychological Operations), 137

Quantico (Virginia), 29

Range 400, 42

Red Zone (area around Baghdad), 164, 166

Regimental Combat Team 7, 103

regiment, British, 1st Fusiliers (Desert Rats), 97

regiments, U.S.

1st Marine, 177, 188

4th Marine

advance regimental quartering party, 68-70, 99, 103, 164, 181, 236, 288

author assigned to H &S, 49-51

in Baghdad, 236-83, 284

Baghdad drive, 101-85

Baghdad strike, 181, 188-235

Battalion Sniper Operation, 246-56

casualties, 286

a day off, 178-80

jump-off from Kuwait, 67-77, 79-81

Main headquarters, 84-85, 93, 135, 178, 192, 214, 233, 235-39, 246, 277-78, 281, 284

night driving without lights, 235-36

return to Kuwait, 283-88