SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper (41 page)

Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachments (LEDETs)

Coburn, Mike

Colombia

Colonel Arthur D. “Bull” Simons Scholarship Fund

Commando Hubert

Condor (CIA operative)

Consiglio, Robert

Coors Light

correct dope, defined

COs (commanding officers)

defined

Couch, Dick

Coulson, Danny

Cousteau, Jacques-Yves

CQCs (close quarters combat)

defined

Crescent (Garrett Jones)

Crockett, Davy

Cumberland College

cutvees

Battle of Mogadishu

defined

CVIC (Aircraft Carrier Intelligence Center)

defined

Dalton, John

Dam Neck, Virginia.
See also
SEAL Team Six

Dang (Vietnamese SEAL)

dating

dead man’s float

Defense Language Institute (DLI)

Delta (Delta Force)

Achille Lauro
hijacking (1985)

author’s interest in transfer to

defined

Operation Gothic Serpent (Mogadishu Mission)

organization and structure of

TCS op

Demerol

depression

Desert Storm

classified op

PLO-Iranian compound op

Red Sea op

deuce-and-a-half

defined

“developing countries”

Diallo, Amadou

Disney World

Dive Phase of BUD/S

DJ

dope, defined

drinking

Dry, Spence

Durant, Mike

Echo Platoon

E&E (escape and evasion)

defined

Egypt

82nd Airborne

elevation, as primary consideration for sniper shots

epidurals

Erskine, Donald Kim

Escobar, Pablo

executive officers (XOs), defined

Exfil (exfiltrate)

defined

exposure, of snipers

external fixators

defined

Eyes over Mogadishu Mission

facial hair

Fairchild Air Force Base

fantails, defined

fast-rope (fast-roping)

defined

FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)

Federal Bureau of Prisons Special Operations and Response Teams

FFP (Final Firing Position)

defined

field sketch exercise

Fillmore, Earl

Finishing School, The
(Couch)

fireflies

defined

First Baptist Church (Screven, Georgia)

First Phase (Basic Conditioning) of BUD/S

First Phase (Marksman and Basic Fields Craft) of Scout Sniper School

flashbangs

defined

FOBs (forward operating bases)

defined

Fort A. P. Hill

Fort Benning, Georgia

Fort Stewart Army Hospital

French Commando Hubert

French kissing

full packages

defined

full value winds

Garrison, William F.

background of

Mogadishu Mission

TCS op

Gary (school bully)

gear exchanges

Georgia State Highway Patrol

German Combat Swimmers

ghillie suits

Gina the Love Goddess

glossary of terms

goon squads

Gordon, Gary

Gormly, Robert A. “Bob”

Grace Lake

Green Berets

Green Team

Grenada, and Operation Urgent Fury

Groundhog Day
(movie)

HAHOs (High Altitude High Openings)

defined

halal food

half value winds

Hallandale Beach Police Department

Hallings, Brad

HALO (High Altitude Low Openings)

defined

Hassan, Abdullahi “Firimbi”

Heckler & Koch

Hefeweizen beers

Hell Week (BUD/S)

helos (helicopters).
See also
Black Hawks; Little Birds; Sea Hawks; Sea Kings

defined

Helvenston, Scott

Hercules

Herse, Abdi Yusef

Hershey, Gary

“Highway to Hell” (song)

Hon Tai

Horn, Rich

Howe, Jonathan

HRTs (Hostage Rescue Teams)

defined

HS-7 Squadron (“Dusty Dogs”)

HUMINT (human intelligence)

defined

Hunter Army Airfield

hunting

Hurlburt Field

Hussein, Saddam.
See also
Desert Storm

hydrographic reconnaissance

hyperbaric pressure testing

hypothermia

IBS (Inflatable Boat, Small)

IEDs (improvised explosive devices)

defined

indoctrination phase of BUD/S

intelligence tests

Intensive Training (IT)

Iran, and Operation Praying Mantis

Iran hostage crisis (1979-1980)

Iranian-PLO compound op, during Desert Storm

Iraq, Desert Storm.
See
Desert Storm

Iraq war

Italian cuisine

Italy, and Somalia

jet-assisted takeoff (JATO) bottles

Jilao, Ahmed

JOC (Joint Operations Center)

defined

John F. Kennedy

classified op

K-219
incident (1986)

PLO-Iranian compound op

Red Sea op

Johnson, Dennis

Jones, Garrett (Crescent)

JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command)

defined

Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC)

K-219
incident (1986)

Kennedy, John F.

Kerrey, Bob

khat

defined

Kiet, Nguyen Van

kill house

KIM (keep in mind)

defined

Kinniku Banzuke
(
Muscle Ranking;
TV series)

Klinghoffer, Leon

KN-250 scopes

defined

Knepper, Rick

knot (unit)

defined

knot tying

Korean War

Kosugi, Kane

Kuwait.
See also
Desert Storm

Landstuhl Regional Medical Center

Land Warfare phase of BUD/S

Lane, Steven

lane graders

Laplander knives

LAW (light antitank weapon)

defined

Law Enforcement Detachments (LEDETs)

Lee, Robert E.

Leonard, Wellington T. “Duke”

Leopard (CIA operative)

Leupold 10-power scope

Life University

Little Big Man

Battle of Mogadishu

Mogadishu Mission

nickname of

Randall knife of

Silver Star of

TCS op

Little Birds

defined

Little Satilla River

Lockheed Martin P-3 Orions.
See
P-3 Orions

Loi, Bruno

LSTs (lightweight satellite terminals)

defined

Lundberg, Kevin

Lyme disease

Lyon’s Lope

M40 rifles

macawis

defined

McDonald’s

MacGown, Malcolm

McKnight, Danny

McNab, Andy

Maersk Alabama
hijacking

Marcinko, Richard

Marine Corps Base Quantico

Marine Corps Scout Sniper Training.
See
Scout Sniper School

Mark (team leader)

Marksman and Basic Fields Craft phase of Scout Sniper School

Marocchino, Giancarlo

Marsh, Rob

Martin, Tim “Griz”

Maslow, Abraham

match rounds

MC-1 parachutes

meals, ready-to-eat.
See
MREs

mental toughness training

Messlingin, Sweden

MH-6 Little Birds

defined

MH-60 Black Hawks.
See
Black Hawks

Mid-South Institute of Self-Defense Shooting

Mike boats

military language

military rankings

Miller, Ralph

Millington, Tennessee, Naval Air Technical Training Center

Mission Employment phase of Scout Sniper School

Mobility Six (MOB Six)

Mock, Todd

Mogadiscio Stadium (Pakistani Stadium)

Mogadishu (Mogadishu Mission)

attempts to capture Aidid

attempts to capture Aidid’s lieutenants

background

battle of.
See
Battle of Mogadishu

capture of Atto

deployment and setting up a base

Eyes over Mogadishu Mission

map

rat kills

wounded teenage boy op

Mogadishu Airfield

moral concerns about killing

morphine

Morris, Stephen

Mott’s Clamato

MREs (meals, ready-to-eat)

defined

Muhammad, John Allen

Muscle Ranking
(TV series)

National Naval Medical Center (NNMC)

Naval Air Station Brunswick