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
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
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
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