Shooter

training of, 41-43

transfer to Kuwait, 51, 56-662004

return to Iraq, 293

5th Marine, 91, 107, 113, 117, 120, 141, 149-50, 152, 163, 167, 181, 187-88

7th Marine, 41, 43, 163, 188

173rd Airborne, 80

REMFs, 287

Remington 700 receiver, 63

rifles

AKM automatic, 241

M16A4, 243

M40A1, 63, 86, 158

M82A1A Special Application Scoped Rifle (SASR), 1, 4-8

Marine doctrine on, 53

rocket, BM-21, 238

Roland missile, 92, 239

RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades), 115, 155, 160-61, 165, 171, 177, 206, 216, 226, 251

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