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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

training of, 41–43

transfer to Kuwait, 51, 56–66 2004

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,