Shooter_ The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper - Jack Coughlin [120]
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
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Touch of an Angel
2. The Secret Arts
3. Thou Shalt Kill
4. New Ideas
5. Winds of War
6. The Wait
7. Safwan Hill
8. First Kills
9. Left Out
10. Midnight Ride
11. Send In the Bull
12. Decision
13. A Bench in a War
14. A Call Home
15. April Fool’s Day
16. Have Gun, Will Travel
17. Ghostbusters
18. Push, Push, Push
19. The Baghdad Two-Mile
20. The Bridge
21. The Worst Thing
22. The Overpass
23. Sniper Team
24. Our Iwo Jima Moment
25. The Urban Hide
Epilogue Welcome Home
Index
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Touch of an Angel
2. The Secret Arts
3. Thou Shalt Kill
4. New Ideas
5. Winds of War
6. The Wait
7. Safwan Hill
8. First Kills
9. Left Out
10. Midnight Ride
11. Send In the Bull
12. Decision
13. A Bench in a War
14. A Call Home
15. April Fool’s Day
16. Have Gun, Will Travel
17. Ghostbusters
18. Push, Push, Push
19. The Baghdad Two-Mile
20. The Bridge
21. The Worst Thing
22. The Overpass
23. Sniper Team
24. Our Iwo Jima Moment
25. The Urban Hide
Epilogue Welcome Home
Index